Category Archives: Articles

Basic Omaha Considerations

I’m not about to get into advanced Omaha strategy concepts in this article, I just want to analyze a few basic aspects of the game, but some of what I’m about to discuss might benefit advanced players as well.
Omaha Hi-Lo is the most popular Omaha version (although it is played Hi only too, and [...]

The Poker Virgin

The world of online poker can be an intimidating jump for any new player. With thousands of people playing online, a “newbie” sometimes needs a bit of help and direction to make his/her experience as pleasurable and hopefully, profitable as well. This article identifies three questions I asked myself and discovered on my own [...]

Online Poker Tournaments

You can easily find a poker tournament to play in as long as you live in a highly populated area. That’s because highly populated areas almost always have some type of card room or bar that is having a tourney on any given day. However, going to a card room isn’t for everybody [...]

Additional Hand

At the Foxwoods WPT main event this year I found myself in a hand where pot the ability to calculate pot odds became critical.
It was during the last level of day one. I had managed to grow my chip stack to 50,000 putting me in the top 25% for the day. A comfortable [...]

Mutual of Omaha

Playing Omaha for the first time can stun a beginner into believing the game is absolutely crazy, takes no skill whatsoever, and seems like a crapshoot. Players are betting, calling (sometimes the entire table), raising, and raising on top of that, before a flop even occurs. How can anyone make a profit in this game? [...]