Pot-Limit Omaha: The Resteal Float

Occasionally, when you bet from late position, a player who suspects a steal may try to float you from out of position by calling your bet and then betting out on the turn. In this spot, if you suspect that your opponent is making a play, you can often float him back. This is the resteal float....

Thursday Sep 18, 2008

published 19 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 18

Pot-Limit Omaha: The Combo Float

A lot of times, you will find yourself floating with part made hand, part draw, and part air. For example, maybe you flop one pair and call a bet on the flop, looking to steal the pot later in the hand from a player you suspect might be betting light. If your opponent has anything - like A-A -...

Thursday Sep 11, 2008

published 26 days ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 17

Pot-Limit Omaha: The Basic Floats

In my last column, I discussed the basics of floating in pot-limit Omaha (PLO) and identified the key indicators - the weak stab, the continuation-bet, and a possible steal bet - that a float may be in order. In this column, we'll take a look at the more basic variations of the float, and...

Tuesday Aug 19, 2008

published about 1 month ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 16

Pot-Limit Omaha: FloatingThe key to advanced play

Editor's note: The following is a special preview from Jeff Hwang's upcoming book, tentatively titled Pot-Limit Omaha Poker Volume II: Advanced Play. Technically speaking, to float is to call a bet on insufficient hand values with the intention of taking the pot away with a bet on a later...

Wednesday Aug 06, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 15

Pot-Limit Omaha: Fixing World Series of Poker Structures

A few issues ago in my column on the bankroll schedule for pot-limit Omaha, I mentioned that while a typical buy-in for no-limit hold'em might be 100 big blinds, in order to be reasonably deep in pot-limit Omaha, you should buy in for more like 150 times the big blind. In other words, you...

Wednesday Jul 23, 2008

published 2 months ago in
Card Player Magazine Volume 21, Number 14

Pot-Limit Omaha: Basic Preflop Play

Last issue, I classified starting hands in pot-limit Omaha (PLO) by hand strength, breaking them down into premium, speculative, marginal, and trash (everything else) categories. For the most part, the hands within each specific group will be played about the same way before the flop. Let's...

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