Fluctuations
Since Omaha eight-or-better has a lot of redraws, and since the pots often get jammed in aggressive games – especially on some of the later rounds – the fluctuations can be quite large at the higher limits.
Accordingly, you want to have the proper amount of chips to play for each session, as you can go through some major swings.
However, it will seem as though your chips really don’t fluctuate that much. This is a funny quirk of Omaha eight-or-better.
In fact, often you may think you have fairly good control of your chips. But in reality, this is seldom true.
What happens is a long time to split the pot.
In addition, people spend a lot of time thinking in this game, since it is easy to get lost in a hand.
This is especially true for those players who tag along with weak hands.
Their pauses do not necessarily indicate that they are thinking about making a play, but that they are trying to determine if they have enough chance of winning half the pot to make it worthwhile to continue playing.
This is sometimes a reliable tell, unless they are deceptive players. By the way, the slow player is usually the person getting chopped up in the hand.
Because Ohmaha eight-or-better is such a slow game, in the course of a night, you play a lot fewer hands than in other games.
So you are not stacking as many pots, and your chips do not seem to be going up and down as much.
However, they are going up and down a lot more per hand played rather than according to time spent at the final table.
Introduction / Automatic Play / High Versus Low in Three-Handed Pots / Loose Games / Multiway pot 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
