Strategy Sites

2+2    Strategy and discussion forums on poker.  The very best out there, and a fantastic way to improve your play and understanding.  Post your own hands for comment and feedback using bison's converter.  Read posts from "Buzz", who is one of the most knowledgeable and helpful posters out there.

Daniel Negreanu's site    They now have a discussion forum devoted only to Omaha, so you can find O8 and PLO8 hands discussed.

Hutchinson’s O8 point count system    Good system for determining how strong a given O8 hand is pre-flop.  Another math-statistical guy ran lots of simulations to determine what the best hands were, and then assigned points to the hands based on characteristics like having AA or having suited cards.  Helpful for beginners to get an idea of how strong hands are, but keep in mind its pretty simplistic and doesn't take into account position, pot odds, short-handed vs. multi-way, etc.

Steve Badger’s website  Some excellent articles to help you get grounded on how to think about various Omaha games. He also has several years worth of old posts/comments from RPG here

 

Annie Duke's articles at Ultimate Bet.  She has about 7 articles up at their site on Limit Omaha Hi-Low.  Well worth a read since she won a WSOP bracelet in this event in 2004.

 

Pokerlistings.com  Click on the "poker strategy" tab at the right to see 3 good O8 articles: Basic Strategy, Starting hands, and Overplaying AAxx, and a longer article below on General Strategy.      

 

Low Limit Omaha  Very good intro site on playing low-limit Omaha.  Well worth a read.

 

Bet-the-Pot   Has a couple of very good O8 articles. 

 

CardPlayer Magazine – Reasonable articles on all sorts of poker.  Most article are too short and simplistic, but you can find some good stuff in there.  In particular, Lou Kreiger's articles on starting hands, Mike Cappelletti's articles on O8 in general, and more recently Mark Gregorich's articles on specific hands are good.

 

WinningOnlinePoker  Good articles on O8 and PLO8 play.


Poker Shows/Videos

 

Rounders  Pro poker player and Omaha/8 expert Adam Schwartz hosts a weekly radio show talking about poker, and runs a site with some articles and other cool stuff.  Definitely worth checking out.

 

Cardrunners  High-stakes NL cash game player Taylor Caby offers videos+commentary for sale.  Great for NL play.

 

Stoxpoker  High limit HE and NL player Stoxtrader has a website and offers videos+commentary for sale

 

Live@TheBike  Bart and Dave do commentary just like HighStakesPoker on TV.  Except they do it much better and have guest commentators like Barry Greenstein.  $15/month and well worth it.

 

 

 

Computer Software Sites

Pokertracker  Software to track all aspects of your play.  Great stuff.

PokerAceSoftware   Takes all your Pokertracker data and superimposes it over the tables while you play.  Great stuff.

Wilson Turbo Omaha Hi-Low  Software lets you play against computer opponents in O8 games. You can also run simulations for various hands. This software was the basis of Bill Boston's book, and Hutchinson's point count system.  Note: I have not used this software, but its simulations as posted by others at 2+2 are a valuable tool for analyzing hands and play.  The online games are so soft these days though that you're better off playing live opponents than computer simulations, even as a beginner.

 

Blogs

Here are some blogs I like reading

Well Known Pro's Blogs

Joe Tall  Pro player Joe Tall has a blog, forum and offers rakeback and coaching.  Great guy.

Paul Phillips -- well-know tournament poker player and retired millionaire.  Has some very good poker analyses on his blog.  And has written some great stuff at RPG here

Matt Matros - WPT final table finisher and author.  His journal often has good assessments of Expected Value and how to think about poker situations.

Lou Kriger  This Poker author co-wrote "Winning O8 Poker" and has written for CardPlayer for years

Josh Arieh   The "bad-guy" from Greg Raymer's tourney win in the WSOP.  A pro player and bracelet winner.

Rolf Slotboom - Has a mish-mash of strategy articles, tourney reports and other stuff.  His main game is Omaha High, but has some O8 stuff occasionally.

Andy Bloch  He's an MIT grad, former pro blackjack card counter, WPT final-tablist and pro player.  Has a discussion forum too.

 

Pro Player's Blogs

TwentyOneOuts Twice  Chris Fargis is a pro player who writes great stuff

threebet33      Eric is a pro, plays big stakes and writes some entertaining stuff.

Lion Tales   Richard Brodie writes an entertaining journal on higher-stakes tourney play

Chris Halverson  Pro player writes about stuff

 

Interesting amateur's blogs

Law School Dropout   TeddyFBI plays lots of Limit Holdem and some NL, and writes lots of good stuff about it.

N 82 50 24   Nat Arem created the pokerdb and writes interesting stuff

Ansky Blog   Ansky was a former tourney donk who saw the light and converted to cash games. Good man.

A Fool and His Money  Good stuff.

Extreme Tilt  Good stuff.

Sound of a Suckout  Good stuff.

Doubleas   Good stuff.

The Grind  Good stuff.

Big Dave D's Blog  Dave plays very high Omaha High games and keeps a nice journal about it. 

Shot Takers  Beset and TheRempel write about PLO and NL games and post on the 2+2 PLO boards

Felicia Lee  Plays lots of Limit O8.

 

Multi-Table Tourney player's blogs

Shaniac   Shane Schleger finished at at a final table in a WPT event and posts at 2+2

MLG   Michael Goodman posts at 2+2 as MLG and is one of the best Multi-Table Tourney (MTT) players around.

Sirio  David Cossio is a former math professor, pro player, WSOP final tablist and 2+2 poster.  Excellent MTT player.

 

NL player's blogs

TillerMan  Ian Girdwood plays some of the highest NL ring games around

Bad Moon Rising  Thomas Fuller plays the NL 2k games and writes about it

A number of other well-known players like Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, John Juanda, Howard Lederer, Eric Lindgren and others have sites, but for the most part, I don't think they offer much in general, and certainly nothing on O8.

 

Math of Poker

Poker Digest articles  Math professors lays out the combinatorics behind lots of poker situations in 100 different articles.

Dr. Math site  The math behind lots of poker questions, geared for high-schoolers (so it's j-u-s-t my speed, baby)

 

2+2   Check the probability forum to ask your math questions. 

 

Hand rankings vs. a range  You've got AT and want to know how you'll do vs. an opponent playing his top 15% of hands?  Read these.

More rankings


 

Misc Poker Links

Mike Caro University  Lots of articles on poker in general, and some good tables on odds for Holdem poker 

Poker Mods from Chiplitre.com  Software that simplifies the user interface on Party Poker software (removes the tables and dealer, etc.).  I'm using this and like it.

PokerMods.com  Software that changes the background colors and patterns on PartyPoker software.  Similar to PokerMods.

Pokerwire News and updates about poker tournaments

BonusWhores.  The latest on which sites offer temporary reload bonuses

Part-time Poker  Don't know much about this, but looked interesting.  Seems to have articles and stuff.

The Gambler's Bookstore  Books on all types of gambling, and the place to find the impossible-to-find-books (like Boston's and most of Ciaffone's books).  Alternatively, use Fetchbook to find the cheapest online retailer for books for the more common books.

PocketFives.com   A site devoted to online tournaments.  It focuses on Holdem, but also occasionally has some Omaha tourneys discussed.

Bluff Magazine.   A competitor to CardPlayer, but doesn't seem to have any O8 content at all.

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Pot Limit Omaha 8/b Links

This game is the closest cousin to Limit O8.  But sadly, there just aren't any real sites or books available on this game.  Ray Zee and Bob Ciaffones' "Omaha Holdem" both offer a few comments, and Steve Badger has some useful thoughts, but after that there just isn't much info available.  Here are the best links

 

2+2    Same link as above.  The O8 Forum there has quite a few PLO8 posts these days.  Wintermute, Ribbo, JoshuaMayes (when he posts), emptyshell and I (gergery) all give decent advice

 

Ribbo.com    Ribbo has some hand histories, a PLO8 forum, a prickly personality, and a great understanding of PLO8

 

Winning On-line Poker   Has a great article on PLO8

 

Steve Badger's   Has a great article covering key principles for PLO8 play, including bet-ability, 3/4ing, and freerolls.

 

Omaha High Links

These have nothing to do with O8, but sometimes I get frustrated folding so much and go looking for a game where i can gambool it up.  That game is Omaha High, which is truly the action-loving maniac's game of choice.  So if you're bored, read up so you don't lose your shirt in this monstrously high-variance form of poker.

 

2+2 post from awhile back  

Steve Badger's site   
Online Poker Tutor   
Casino's in the UK   
Pokertips.org   
We do it All Vegas   

Low Limit Omaha   

Home Poker Games   

Pokerlistings.com  Click on the "poker strategy" tab at the right to see some good Omaha High articles as well.  Has a good general strategy article below.
Big Dave D's Blog  Dave plays very high Omaha High games and keeps a nice journal about it.