Common Mistakes in Pot Limit Omaha Part 3 –Raising and bluffing at the wrong times
Raising out of position
It can’t be stressed often enough how important position is in Omaha. Since the max bet on each street is pot sized, hands often run several streets before the hand finishes, meaning the player who has position on the other players has the advantage of position on each street, seeing what other players are doing allows players to get away from their made but not good enough hands cheaper than those in earlier position, and the times they do have a strong hand they will find themselves in the great position where even before they get to act money is coming their way from the other Omaha players who have betted into their monster hand. For that reason, raising in early position in Omaha is not usually advisable except with the strongest of holdings.
Bluffing
Harder to bluff in Omaha as opposed to Hold em
There are occasions where it’s advised to bluff in Omaha, but less so than in Hold Em, since there is so many ways for your opponents to hit the flop, chances are, especially in a multi-way pot that one or more of your opponents will have hit the flop, meaning it’s inevitably a waste of your money to try to bluff the pot in a multi-way pot.
Avoid arming your opponents
Even semi bluffing can be a bad idea, particularly out of position, since you are in effect building the pot and giving further ammunition for some with a made hand to fire back at you, meaning that you often have to fold a hand that you would have liked to have seen the next street with.
Keep your bluffs in reserve
Bluffing in Omaha is best reserved for those occasions when you have just 1 or 2 preferably tight opponents and you got a scary looking board, such as a 3 of the same suit or having the board paired, or as mentioned previously having the lone Ace, when 3 of that suit are showing.
