How Good is Your Pot-Limit Omaha? [Paperback]

Stewart Reuben (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2004

Learn this unique poker strategy from one of the best pot limit omaha players in the world.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: D&B Publishing; First edition (January 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904468071
• ISBN-13: 978-1904468073
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,043,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Thinking Man's Book, November 28, 2004

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J. Megill "jmegill" (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How Good is Your Pot-Limit Omaha? (Paperback)

This book consists of fifty quizzes based on real poker hands. Each of these hands Rueben either participated in or watched happened. For example, Rueben will say he was dealt KKQJ double suited in late position and the book quizzes you a.) fold b.) call c.) min raise d.) pot raise. Next the flop comes T93 rainbow and three players check to you. What do you do, the book asks, a.) check b.) small bet or c.) big bet? And so on until the river. At the end of each hand, Rueben explains what he thinks the correct decision is at each step, his rationale and what really went down. It is up to you to think about whether you agree or disagree with his decision making processes. This book is not a "how to play pot limit omaha" manual for beginners.
For the most part, I disagreed with his style of play. I thought he was overly aggressive. But you have to remember he has made a lot of money playing poker and I have only made a little.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars How good are you at playing hands that should be folded?, June 27, 2005

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Timothy E. Daughters - See all my reviews

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This review is from: How Good is Your Pot-Limit Omaha? (Paperback)

This book was quite instructive, but I found it annoying how many hands I thought should have been folded before the flop, and Stewart agreed with me. Once we get that question right, what is the point in going on with the analysis?

I also found that the games that these hands came from were much more aggressive than the low-limit games that you find online. I don't think that these strategies are completely appropriate for those games. But, if you are playing for thousands at the Grosvenor Victoria, this is your handbook.

Still, in the end, I would say that it improved my game. Plus, there is very little written on the subject of Pot-Limit Omaha, so you are going to end up reading all three of those books, anyway.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for beginners!, December 9, 2010

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Professor S (Kalamazoo, MI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: How Good is Your Pot-Limit Omaha? (Paperback)

I enjoyed this book, but it will not give a beginner a very understandable picture of how to play the game. It is more like a series of anecdotes from the omaha metagame. There are lots of nuggets of situational wisdom, but a lot of the situations are situations that you should only run into when you are super-advanced and know how to selectively bluff your way to profit with bad hands and smart plays in ultra-loose games. Also, there are lots of stories about case cards hitting, miracle flops, and other things you will not run into that often. The grading system is strange and it takes a lot of flipping back and forth to follow the lessons.