For example QcQd7c7d vs 8c9cJh10h with a Qh9h7c flop the QQ77 hand has the nuts but is only 33 to win.Your opponents will likely always have hands that have pairs and combo-draw potential.If you dont have the same, youre starting at a disadvantage and then relying on luck to make up ground.
Having the J-T in place of the QQ opens the door for far more straight potential. In Holdem the No. A A) holds 83 preflop equity over the second-best starting hand (K K). There is only a 6 edge for the best Omaha hand to win against the second-best Omaha hand, versus the 66 edge in Holdem. You will rarely find yourself with more than 60 equity heads-up, with your equity dropping massively with every additional player in the hand. This will cause your session to suffer from massive variance. There are simply too many possibilities for draws to be in such favorable situations. You simply cannot afford to play hands consistently starting you at a disadvantage against your opponents. You need to make the inevitable downswings as small as humanly possible, and the upswings as steep and long as you can. But if you have a hand with an edge, no matter how small, its profitable in the long term to maximize the size of the pot at that time. Hands like these will typically give you a very strong hand on the flop, or a very weak hand, making it difficult to make large mistakes while playing them. It takes very strong reads on the game and on your opponents to play weak hands profitably in Omaha. Theres a natural similarity to Texas Holdem which is why many players transition to it. But because there are more combinations, it invites a lot of action. Except Omaha hi lo is the split-pot version where players compete for both the low and high halves of the pot. They need to use two of them combined with 3 community cards to make a poker hand. And just like Holdem and PLO, a player can win a pot before showdown if all other players fold to them. The player with the high hand gets half and the player with the low hand gets the other half. A player can win both halves of the pot too - called a SCOOP. QQ77 might be a favorite vs J1098 HU but J1098 plays better in multi way flops. Plus it is a great hand for flopping nut draws allowing your hand to possibly improve on later streets where double paired hands have to hope to flop a set and avoid being over setted. Also even if you flop top set where it is the nuts it can still be an underdog vs combo draws.
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