Some PLO Books Coming Out Soon

A few new pot-limit Omaha books are going to be available in the next few months:

Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play is the next book of Jeff Hwang, the author of Pot-Limit Omaha — The Big Play Strategy. As its title suggests, it will cover more advanced topics than his first book: floats, SPR, preflop 3bets, small ball style are a few topics on the menu. About 350 pages, due in mid-june.

Secrets of Short-handed Pot-limit Omaha: How to Beat PLO Games with Six or Fewer Players is co-authored by Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink. Rolf already published a pretty good book three years ago, Secrets of Professional Pot-Limit Omaha; one of the criticisms I made about it was that I didn’t find it that adequate for 6max games, now the question will certainly be thoroughly addressed. The content will include a study of stack size and bet size, player-specific strategies, advanced plays and moves, as well as many examples from high stakes. About 300 pages, due in August 2009.

Two Plus Two Publishing also made an announcement in their forums that they will bring a new PLO book to the market “in the not too distant future”. No detail on it yet.

Finally, Tom Chambers, aka LearnedfromTV, is currently writing an ebook targeting the better mid-stakes PLO players. Tom offers coaching and his students have had many good things to say about it. He also makes videos for PokerSavvy+, and although I only watched a few previews, they looked pretty solid — I’ll probably take the trial to see how good they are. Tom seems to have done quite a bit of work on the “analytical” side, crunching some numbers and delving into combinatorics.
His ebook will be 300-500 pages, and it will cost $2,500.