Posted in Poker June 2nd, 2010
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
Price: $8.38
- ISBN13: 9780818407260
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
Product Description
Bob Ciaffone
“This book is very accurate technically and a great addition to poker literature.”
Lou Krieger
“Lucid, literate, and comprehensive. Dissects the complexities of this game and explains why big play strategy is the winning strategy.”
Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Poker?
If you’ve never tried Pot-Limit Omaha, you’re missing out on the most exciting, most lucrative cash game around. Omaha has long been one of the most popular forms of poker in Europe, as well as the Midwest and Southern United States. PLO is also the highest-stakes game in every cardroom in which the game is spread. And now it’s spreading like wildfire throughout North America. The reason is simple: Omaha offers more action and bigger pots than Texas Hold’em. Isn’t it time you got in on it?
Whether you’re a cash-game professional or a recreational player — and whether you play live or online — this book will arm you with a winning big-play strategy that’s easy to master even if you’ve never played Omaha before.
Key topics include:
– The Big Play Objectives
– The Power of the Big Draw
– Straight Draws and Starting Hand Construction
– Limit Omaha Hi/Lo and Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
Complete with practice situations and hand quizzes, this is the most comprehensive Omaha book available — and the only one you’ll ever need.
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker
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5 Comments on this post
Posted by Bob June 2nd, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I don’t know what Bob Ciaffone could have read to call it “very accurate technically” but it must have been a pre-printing proof of some kind. it could not possibly have been an actual physical book from the first printing.
There may be great material here, but it is seriously damaged by poor editing (e.g. a whole paragraph repeated out of place on page 88/89) and the apparent LACK of technical review.
As for the Quiz on page 118, step 3, neither choice is even remotely acceptable. When that trey of diamonds hits the board, you MUST call the floor manager, show the same card from your hand, and insist that every chip in the pot go back to the player who put it in. Then, get a new deck (and probably a new dealer), and you STILL need to reconsider whether you ever want to play another hand in that card room. OBVIOUSLY one of those cards was not printed according to the author’s intent.
I don’t think there have been blocks larger than about a dozen pages without SOMETHING that any decent technical reviewer would have flagged.
The editor of this book should be ashamed. The technical reviewers, if in fact there were any, should be terminated. And the author should seriously consider shopping for a new publisher.
The “Poker Boom” has rushed yet another unready book into print. Yes, this book probably stands head and shoulders above many dozens of poker books *unworthy* of having been published at all, but we the buyers should send the publishers a message that shoddy production is not acceptable either.
I’m barely even halfway through, but it would take a minimum of a revised edition to earn more stars. There’s probably five-star quality material in here, but you practically need a pickaxe to mine for it.
Overall Rating: 1 / 5
Posted by kaimano June 2nd, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Are you an Holdem player who want’s to understand Omaha? Well, this book is for you. I was such a player and didn’t understand Omaha. Now I understand it better and even if I don’t play it very much it also improved mu understanding of Holdem. Buy this book and you won’t regret.
Overall Rating: 4 / 5
Posted by Lester Suppes June 3rd, 2010 at 12:54 am
I play PL08 for a living and I have to say this book refocused me on some of the concepts I kept forgetting.
A phenomenal work and a must read.
Overall Rating: 5 / 5
Posted by D. Peters June 3rd, 2010 at 3:22 am
Good introduction to PLO. Basically teaches a tight preflop strategy where you get the money in postflop dominating an opponent. For example, you both may have the same straight draw, but you also have a flush draw.
Main weakness of the book is it doesn’t talk much about postflop play with deep stacks.
Overall Rating: 4 / 5
Posted by AL June 3rd, 2010 at 3:52 am
As many books on the subject advocating playing “good hands” using “position”, no advanced strategy here. One problem I find is in many situational analysis (when having either a solid made hand or strong draws) is the author advices raising when faced with around half sized pot and folding to a full size pot. I find this advice gets repeated over and over, so by this logic it would be profitable /+ EV to raise with stone cold bluffs when facing small/half size bet almost always!!. I am not saying the info is bad, but added nothing to what I have already known/seen before.
Overall Rating: 3 / 5