Omaha Poker
Strategy
The most important thing to think about in a split pot game is the wide spread in profit between winning just half the pot vs.
winning (or "scooping") it all.
- It ends up being a lot more than just double the amount.
Scooping the pot can build a healthy addition to your stack of chips.
Getting half hardly puts you ahead of where you were before you started playing the hand.
A skilled Omaha Poker player will usually only play starting hands that have a solid chance of winning both ways.
Omaha is a game of "nuts".
There are numberous players with numerous cards finding so many reasons to play.
A final hand with a pretty good high and a fairly good low can easily get clobbered by nut hands both ways.
So after the flop or maybe the turn, if it looks like you don't have an almost certain nut for one end and a good shot at the other,
your best bet is to fold up and wait for the next hand.
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