Pot-limit Omaha is one of those games that could make you or break you. Another variant of the poker. Omaha does have more action than the usual hold-em poker. It is no surprise that PLO keeps getting bigger all over the world.
Many beginners or bad players believe that pot-limit Omaha isn’t a skill game, or at least fail to appreciate the game’s skill component. They believe that luck plays a bigger factor than skills.
However, As a result, Players repeatedly make a lot of fundamental mistakes that can be avoided.
Here are some tips on how to play PLO.
1. Be careful with your starting hand
Like any poker games, be careful with your starting hand.
Because you start with four cards instead of the usual two, the combinations are huge. There are 270,725 different starting hand combinations, but even though you have a good number of starting hand combinations. Most of them might look beautiful, but they won’t be playable hands.
Some combinations look good. But in reality, your opponent might have a better combination on the flop.
2. Playing the small combinations.
Small double suited cards might look good, but the chance of winning the pot may not be that good.
Hands like 
might look good.
You might flop the nut straight. However, chances are your opponent could be drawing flush draws or higher straight draws.
Even getting two pairs or a flush can be easily be dominated.
3. Bad small pair combination.
A small pair, combine with non-connecting cards, should be avoided. Pocket fives and lower paired with face cards with no same suite are not ideal hands to play.
Even when you hit a set, it will probably be bottom set.
When you do not have backdoors draws. Chances are you will be dominated against most of your opponent’s continuation range when the board gets paired.
4. Playing non-nut flush draw.
In pot-limit Omaha, flush draws are very common. However, the more you play a smaller flush draw, especially with multiple pots. The chance your opponent is drawing a higher flush draw could put you in a tight spot.
Be very careful and control the pot.
5. Overplaying big pairs
The game is Omaha.
If you are only focusing on your big pair without any backups, then you are in a lot of trouble. Remember, your opponent has four cards. The combinations of a draw are higher than hold-em.
You could have a pocket ace, but your opponent could get two pairs.
6. Playing our of position
Your position is everything. Especially true in Omaha.
There a huge difference if the wild pot raiser is before or after you. Be very careful and understand your position.
7. Control the pot
Just because it is called pot-limit Omaha, it does not mean you can only bet pot.
Be very careful with the pot, and never let it out of control. We can not stress this enough.
We have seen in a tournament where players will have as much as more than twenty times the starting stack on the first few levels, only not to reach the money.
You must control the pot. Re-raising the pot pre-flop on a turbo tournament structure could lead to an all-in pre-flop situation.
You are playing poker, not baccarat.
Minimize your risk as much as possible especially pre-flop. The champion is not the player who busted the most players out. The champion is the last man standing.
