Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play

For those of you that found Jeff Hwang’s Pot-Limit Omaha Poker, was their PLO bible, now the man has brought out a follow up covering more advanced principles of this brilliant game. In his first book Hwang  covered the how to get the most from your big drawing hands, in this book he goes into such topics as using your positional advantage, stack-to-pot ratio and a host of advanced skills. This book is not for the new Omaha player, but if you are comfortable with the concepts in Jeff’s earlier book, this will take your Omaha play to a new level.

This book will explain how to incorporate advanced bluffing techniques into your play, and how to use these techniques together with your positional advantage to force weaker players out of the pot. 

The book uses over 200 hand examples and walk throughs to clearly demonstrate the strategies and advanced concepts that are tackled in it’s pages. We will have a full review coming soon on our Omaha Books Review Page.  

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The $5,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament was decided on the third day when Richard Austin took the bracelet with a surprise double elimination in the last hand, knocking out both Cliff Josephy and Sorel Mizzi.

Day 1 started with 363 players starting the event, partly due to the elimination of rebuys from the 2009 WSOP. Among the players at the tables were Omaha specialists like Erik Seidel, Barry Greenstein, John Juanda and Erik Lindgren.

 Defending Champion  Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond would not be reclaiming his title, as he was busted on the first day. The final hand proved something of an anti-climax as Sore Mizzi, Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy and Richard Austin were at the three handed stage. Mizzi and Josephy were both all-in on a flop of  Kc-9d-3c. Josephy had hit top set, but Austin holding Qh-Js-8c-5c, only needed a ten or a club to take pot and the tournament. The turn showed a harmless 8s, but the 7c on the river gave Austin his flush and the title.  At first the tournament director was about to award a split pot between Josephy and Mizzi, before realising that Austin had the better hand and was now the tournament winner. Austin collected $409,484 for the win and the WSOP gold bracelet.

Although all the top poker players are in Vegas at the moment, it seems a few players are giving more attention to the big high stakes online and in the casinos. Gus Hansen has only entered one event so far, Tom Dwan and Sam Kelopuro have entered two each and Patrik Antonius has so far still not entered a tournament, though Phil Ivey is having a great WSOP this year with two gold bracelets so far.

On Monday Gus Hansen was entertaining Brian Hastings at the ” Hansen Knockout”  table on Full Tilt Poker, playing heads-up $500/$1000 pot-limit Omaha. Hastings did not have the best of sessions, losing all of the six biggest pots. When he did make a hand, he came up against Hansen hitting big draws and taking the pots. After little over fifty hands Hastings was already $350,000 down.

On the same night, there were several games of short-handed $500/$1000 PLO playing at the Full Tilt tables. The lineup included Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Hac “trex313″ Dang, his brother Di “Urindanger” Dang, Gus Hansen, “Bomberman” and Sami “LarsLuzack” Kelopuro. It was the two Finns Antonius and Kelopuro who profited the most with wins of over $400,000.  Dane Gus Hansen also came away with a good profit. While at the other end of the scale it was Bomberman who seemed to supply a few of the winning players with their chips.