PLO

Welcome to the wonderful world of Pot Limit Omaha! With four hole cards instead of two, PLO is a far more nuanced game than No-Limit Hold’em and one that emphatically rewards greater skill. This makes it a very profitable game for serious players – especially when playing at the small stakes where recreational players consistently make expensive preflop and postflop mistakes.  Mastering Small Stakes Pot-Limit Omaha is a thoroughly comprehensive guide that will give you all the tools you need to gain a huge edge at lower stakes play. Fernando “JNandez” Habegger is a successful high stakes professional player and leading PLO coach with his own training site at PLOMastermind.com. He has trained hundreds of players to become successful at PLO. In Mastering Small Stakes Pot-Limit Omaha, preflop play is broken down by identifying nine different hand categories and analysing how hands within each of them are handled preflop. Postflop analysis is based around the powerful technique of the Four Pillars of Postflop Play. The combination of these two creates a powerful gameplan that constitutes a fast track route to domination at the lower stakes. Further topics include adjusting to live play, PLO tournaments, building the right improvement habits, dealing with variance, and managing your PLO bankroll.

Most PLO books advocate a highly conservative game-plan – this style is outdated and will get you crushed in today’s games. Mastering Pot-Limit Omaha is different. It is a unique and remarkable book, outlining a whole new approach to the game: teaches you an aggressive style provides you with clear guidelines on how to develop your game-plan and adjust to your opponents teaches you how to analyse board textures – the key to success in PLO Herbert Okolowitz (Huck3be1n) and Wladimir Taschner (Insyder19) are professional poker players, PLO experts and sought-after coaches on Pokerstrategy.com. They will explain in detail: pre-flop hand selection and pre-flop hand dynamics – including analysis of wide 3- and 4-bet ranges and the theory behind optimal bet-sizing. how to use equity shifts on turn and river to your advantage and how to bluff correctly. how to understand the game better and develop a holistic view of the play: connecting pre-flop decisions to action on later streets. Plus much more… A clear game-plan and the right mind-set will improve your win-rate tremendously and give you the edge against your opponents. Mastering Pot-Limit Omaha will give you that edge! 

Download (PDF): Appendix 1 Welcome to the Pot-Limit Omaha boot camp! Are you ready to work hard and study hard? If the answer is “yes”, then this book will teach you all you need to know to start playing PLO, establish your game at the low-stakes and then move up to the higher limits. You will learn all the key concepts in step-by-step fashion. The material is split into 28 chapters and each chapter topic is discussed in four sections: The Introduction The Exercise The Solutions The Practice At the end of each chapter there is an overview of the material so you can be absolutely sure that you have understood all the key information. This book is ideal for players at the low-stakes level but there is also a great deal of useful information for more advanced players.

Pot-Limit Omaha is a fascinating game which is rapidly increasingly in popularity on the back of the current poker boom. However, there is a dearth of quality material giving advice on how to handle all elements of this complex form of poker. Until now… Secrets of Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the first books to analyze medium and high-stakes PLO in great depth. The author, long-time successful PLO cash game player Rolf Slotboom, reveals key information that has never appeared in print before. The following are just some of the topics that are discussed in this ground-breaking book: A revolutionary short-stack approach Adjustments for big-stack play A study on the proper bet size Correct seating position Blocker play The bare ace bluff Exploiting your opponents’ specific weaknesses Finally, the practice hands and the chapter on hand match-ups offer tremendous theoretical and practical advice. This book is a must-read for anyone who wishes to play PLO successfully. 

Pot-limit Omaha is a major big bet poker variant which has increased hugely in popularity on both sides of the Atlantic over the past twenty years. Omaha is a fascinating game in which each player receives four hole cards (as opposed to just two in hold’em) to complement the five community cards. This leads to complex and interesting play, and offers great possibilities for the expert player to outmanoeuvre weaker opposition. In pot-limit Omaha big bets can appear out of nowhere, thereby providing skilful players with the opportunity to apply pressure with bold bluffs and counter-bluffs. This book will be of tremendous value to anyone looking to improve their understanding of this exciting game. The material is presented in a novel ‘test-yourself’ format, which simulates live-action play by enabling readers to select the best course of action at each stage of a complete hand. They are then invited to compare their play with that of the experts, and assess their results through a unique scoring system. Pot-limit Omaha is an increasingly popular form of poker, about which there is little literature Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the game Highly entertaining and instructive ‘test-yourself’ format Ideal primer for both online and live-action players.

Rolf Slotboom and Rob Hollink join forces to produce THE definitive guide, to short-handed Pot-Limit Omaha (tables with six or fewer players). Do you know Pot-Limit Omaha is one of the fastest growing forms of poker? Do you know that the biggest games online (in money) are Short-Handed Pot-Limit Omaha? Rolf and Rob will tell you how to: Gauge the optimum size of the buy-in Decide whether to check-raise or bet into the raiser Represent big hands Misrepresent hands in order to get paid off Get your opponents off good, but non-nut hands Judge when to raise with drawing hands The team - Rolf Slotboom - author of the classic “Secrets of Professional Pot Limit Omaha”. In his first attempt in 2007 on the World Series of Poker he cashed four times, including the main $10,000 event. Rob Hollink has been a leading player for over 20 years and has won both a European tour title and, in 2008, a World Series bracelet.