Afterthought : Additional Advanced Concepts
You must understand how to play poker your hand for maximum profit. Sometimes this means to fold, since folding and winning zero is better than getting quartered or worse.
This is why having extra draws is so important, especially if the game is loose.
In heads-up play, the opposite can be true. Now you don’t necessarily need that good of a hand.
You want position, and you want to be against a weak opponent.
You also need to understand the significant of scary cards in multiway pots.
A scare card often indicates that you should discard a fairly good hand that might have been the nuts on the previous street.
But if the card is only slightly scary, you frequently should play off the bet in a large pot.
Also remember that in Ohmaha eight-or-better, unlike in many other forms of poker, you generally don’t want to isolate the steamers.
Even though they probably have poor hands, they are not always in that bad of shape when they are heads up.
In addition, make sure that you save money against the tight, solid players. It is just not worth giving these people any action.
When they bet or raise, they typically have the best reading hand.
Finally, keep in mind that in some of the more aggressive games, especially if they are fairly loose, you can go through some big swings.
At the lower limits, those of you who play tight can get by with a relatively small bankroll.
But this won’t necessarily be true at the higher limits, even though the slow speed of the game itself sometimes will make you think that you have fairly good control.
Introduction / Automatic Play / High Versus Low in Three-Handed Pots / Loose Games / Multiway Versus Short-Handed Play / Scare Cards / Getting Counterfeited / Getting Quartered / Playing Against Steamers / Playing Against Tight, Solid Players / Your Playing Style / Fluctuations / Pot-Limit Omaha Eight-or-Better / Afterthought
