Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Strategy. Starting Hands

Using 4 cards in Omaha you may compose 16,432 unique combinations. Such fact and the great chances of winning with both a low and a high round, contribute to an original top list of starting hands in loose Omaha Hi-Lo different from the rest poker games. Becauce loose Omaha Hi-Lo has more types of playable hands than Hold’em, a list of the first 100 starting hands excepts too many playable 4-card combinations.

Nevertheless, here in this article we’ll try to present you and get you acquanted with the strongest starting hands in loose Omaha Hi-Lo.

Premium starting hands

1. A-A-2-x
2. A-A-3-x
3. A-2-3-x
4. A-2-4-x
5. A-2-x-x
6. A-3-4-x
7. A-A-x-x

It is very important for you to understand how all of the hands just listed differ in strength, depending on the x-card/s and if the hand is non-suited, suited or double-suited. All x-cards including a 6-9 often weaken the hand. But, in general, in loose Omaha Hi-Lo all of these combinations are strong hands. For instance, an A-2-K-K double-suited is much more stronger than an A-2-Q-8 non-suited, though both hands pertain to the A-2-x-x category. Moreover, an A-A-K-K double-suited is slightly stronger than an A-A-Q-7 non-suited and so on.

The Top Ten list

1. A-A-2-3 double-suited
2. A-A-2-4 double-suited
3. A-A-2-3 suited
4. A-A-2-5 double-suited
5. A-A-2-4 suited
6. A-A-3-4 double-suited
7. A-A-2-3 non-suited
8. A-A-2-2 double-suited
9. A-A-3-5 double-suited
10. A-A-2-6 double-suited

Odds and Statistics

When you hold a hand like A-2-3-4, than a chance that the flop will not include any low card reach 5.6% , the possibility that it will contain one low card reach 32%, the probability that it will contain two low cards reach 45.6% and a chance that the flop includes all low cards is equal 16.2%.

When you hold a high hand, then the chance of a high flop including two or three high cards reach 30%.

If you are dealt an A-2-x-x tha chance is near 6.2% of the time and an A-2-3-x is near 1% of the time.

When you hold an A-2 in a nine-handed game, then possibility that several players also hold an A-2 reach 36%.

In a nine-handed game likelihood that all of players will hold a pocket pair before the flop is about 50%.

When the cards have not paired on the flop or the turn, the probability that they will pair on the river is about 27.3% .

Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Strategy

1. Introduction
2. Major Advice and Frequent Mistakes
3. Preflop Play
4. Post Flop
5. Starting Hands