How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker [Paperback]

Mike Cappelletti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 23, 2003

Clearly written strategies and powerful advice shows the essential winning strategies for beating Omaha high-low poker!  This money-making guide includes more than sixty hard-hitting sections on Omaha.  Players learn the rules of play, best starting hands, strategies for the flop, turn, and river, how to read the board for both high and low, dangerous draws, and how to beat low-limit tournaments.  Includes odds charts, glossary, low-limit tips, and strategic ideas.  240 pages

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Cardoza (December 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580421148
• ISBN-13: 978-1580421140
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, three flaws, February 20, 2004

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William Reich "Bill Reich" (Branford, Ct USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker (Paperback)

This is a very helpful and entertaining book. It aided me in thinking about this potentially very profitable game. Combined with online information by Steve Badger and by Annie Duke, it has been enough to keep my O8 adventures profitable.
The interesting new things I got from this book were the advice to play high flops aggressively, the raise with third nuts to drive out the second nuts (dangerous but very profitable at times) and the advice on table selection (Cappalletti's Number)

The flaws:
1: There should be a bit more about starting hand selection. O8 is a starting hand game. You are not often going to outplay anyone post-flop, at least I'M not.
Having re-read the book, I will have to modify this part of the review. He does go into starting hand selection quite extensively but I found his ideas pretty much identical to what I had already picked up from other sources and not surprising or very intersting, although I think that they are correct. So, I didn't think that much about them when I wrote this review. He does seem to give less credence to the "all four cards must be useful" concept than Steve Badger, among others. Playing A2XX when XX are crap is fairly loose by the standards I was taught. However, make XX of ANY value at all and I agree it can be played profitably.
2: He digresses a great deal into hi-limit, pot-limit and other tough Omaha venues. He also gets into Holdem. These are some of the most entertaining moments in the book but won't be popular with those who want technical advice for profitable low-limit O8.
3: He says O8 is fun. Not a matter of taste. He is wrong.

My one other problem is that the one table of O8 that is usually in play at Foxwoods does not, whatever Mr. C's experience there in the past, usually consist of loose enough players to meet his ideal of a good table. On weekdays, especially, the number of people seeing the flop on average can get as low as 4 or even 3.5 I also don't see O8 growing in popularity the way Mr. C. does. It had its growth and I think that we will see a die-back.
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Will in New Haven

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very dissapointing!, March 10, 2004

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Lewis Green (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker (Paperback)

I was terribly dissapointed with this book. It struck me as a lazy effort to cash in -- a cut and paste of magazine articles and ego massaging annecdotes -- not a useful product for customers. The content is disorganized. Almost everything presented is vague. Most comments, described hands and annecdotes are about high-stakes tight games, when in the real world most customers are dealing with lower-limit loose games. I still do not have a clear idea from it what starting hands (besides obvious ones) he reccomends being played and from which position in which type of game. And the charts are HORRIBLE! They are obtuse and hard to read, some of them flat out don't make sense -- at least to a common player. There are references to 11 handed play (are there enough cards in the deck for that with the burns? -- I've never seen 11 seats at an Omaha table anywhere online -- nor in the LA card rooms)There are useless odds charts based on all hands going to river (which they don't) and there is almost no information on adjusting to shorthand (when a table has empty seats) or heads up (when playing tournaments)... The author should have figured out if he was writing for typical low/moderate limit players in typical loose games -- or high limit, aggressive pre-flop games. Of course then he wouldn't have enough material to fill out a book. Which is my take on this whole project. Compare it to Phil Hellmuth Jr.'s "Play Poker like the Pros" where step-by-step, beggining or intermediete players are given a set of tools, rules and an organized approach of how to apply, adapt and expand them to different game conditions and experience levels.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, January 17, 2005

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Jason - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker (Paperback)

This book isnt worth its small price. The book is disorganized to say the least, making it difficult to read. Furthermore, there is little real usable information, especially for those who are new to Omaha 8. Whereas a good author would write a solid chapter about starting hands (for example), the equivalent in this book is 7-8 articles on a subject, apparently culled from Card Player Magazine. This leaves a lot of questions unanswered and topics unaddressed. Though some of the individual articles arent bad, its no way to write a book. Based on what I have heard and the other books I have read by 2+2 publishing, I wish I had bought the Ray Zee book instead. Bottom line: This book might be ok for someone who has played a little bit of omaha and wants to learn a little more, especially playing recreationally, but if youre serious about learning omaha 8 or taking your game to the next level, look elsehwere.