There are two key elements two omaha; playing nut hands and playing in position. Position is extremely important mostly because giving free cards is never a good idea if you have a made hand. There are almost no blanks in omaha. Therefore you have to defend your hand from early position in multiway pots almost always giving your hand away. You have to play very differently from early position and late position and be very selective with what hands you play and raise with UTG. Playing the nuts sounds very easy and it is. Players tend to have stronger hands when the money goes into the middle. A set is almost never the best hand at the river so you have to make sure you protect your hand and let players pay to see their draws. This brings us to the next subject; drawing to the nuts. I mentioned earlier that players more often have the nuts or redraws to nut hands in omaha. Drawing to second nutlflush and low straight can cost you a lot of money in omaha.
A few pointers to keep in mind:
* Try to avoid hands with “danglers” (cards that don’t help the rest of the hand; i.e. AKQ7 hand, the 7 beeing a dangler)
* Higher pocket pairs are a lot better than lower. Ok sounds like common knowledge but the chance of beeing over-setted is a lot bigger in omaha so you should try to avoid playing smaller pair without redraws.
* Connecting cards are good. Hands like QJT9 are very good hands especially double suited.
* Try to be unpredictable. Play your draws and your sets the same way.
Good luck =)
