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Poker tips? (Omaha)

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Playing a friendly tournament of Omaha tonight, but I've never played it before outside of screwing around in free online lobbies. I know the basic rules but I'm really just used to Hold 'Em. Anything I should know to make sure I don't go down in flames quickly?
 

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One of the basic rules is if you have 3 of a kind in your "hand", bail out.


I don't really like Omaha, too many possibilities to get screwed at the river.
 
If it's a full table with loose/passive players, treat everything as a drawing hand and play tight. The easiest way to recognize a bad player is how strong they play their high pocket pairs. Aces are nothing without having hit a set because, unless it's heads up, one pair will virtually never take it.

Having a double suited hand is alright, but if they're drawing to low flushes, you'll probably have someone drawing to a higher flush supposing it's a loose table.

If there's an average of 8 people seeing a flop (which at low stakes is quite common), you're going to require nearly the nut hands to take it down, more often than not. Just know that when you do complete your nut hands, you're going to be paid off my several idiotic shmucks who made a low flush or bottom boat.
 
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