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It doesn’t take long for beginners to figure out that the nuts are out much more often in PLO than in NLHE. With four cards in hand, it’s very common for someone to hit a flush when the board is three-suited, even if it was a backdoor draw. Likewise, a paired board automatically brings threats [...]

Even though the preflop equity of playable PLO hands are pretty close, this does not mean that they should be played the same way. One important consideration when deciding whether to limp, call or reraise is how your hand play postflop.

Three factors can be considered:

How often does your hand hit the flop What it tends to [...]

For a start, look at what kind of flops you would like with your hand (the fewer, the worse), then if your hand runs a significant risk of being dominated (eg. QQxx vs a raise, or even these 7745 that can be tempting), then — last but extremely important — if position is good. You [...]

This comes from a post I wrote on CardRunners, the PFR part having been adapted from Rollover2k’s comments.

As a rule, your VPIP (number of times you Voluntarily Put $ In the Pot, as a percentage) should be between 15 and 35, and your PFR (PreFlop Raise %) between 15 and 25. Some players manage to [...]

Play too loose preflop. You can play more starting hands at PLO than at NLHE, and there’s the old saying “Omaha is a post-flop game”, but this does not mean you can play three hands out of four profitably. Playing more 50% of your hand without hurting your EV calls for solid skills, and anything [...]

You get to play more hands – since the starting hands are closer in value, you don’t run the risk of being dominated as soon as someone raises. It is an action-packed game: there are more raises and reraises, and less check-to-get-a-cheap-showdown-with-an-average-hand. The games are good. Thanks to the first two points, many bad LAG enjoy PLO [...]