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Limit Omaha 8 Multi Table Tournament Strategy
Becoming a winning limit Omaha eight tournament
player is much like becoming a winning limit Omaha 8 ring game
player. They both require the experience, knowledge and patience
to grind out hand after hand played based almost purely on
mathematics. Entering hands with better starting hands than your
opponents and making the correct plays based on pot odds after
the flop.
There are three different parts of a limit Omaha high low split
multi table tournament. These are the early rounds, middle
rounds and late rounds, and each of them requires a different
strategy. In addition, your chip stack in comparison to the
average chip stack must always be considered.
In the early rounds you should keep your starting hand selection
exceptionally tight. The blinds in relation to the average chip
stack are very small and there is no reason to play any but your
very best starting hands. You will play fewer hands than in most
ring games in these early stages of the tournament. The small
amount of chips available in these early hands in limit
tournaments are not worth the amount of chips that you must risk
in order to compete for most pots. When you do play early hands,
look for scoop potential hands like high only hands and hands
where all four cards work well together.
Once you reach the middle rounds of the tournament, the blinds
start growing larger in comparison to the average chip stack.
You can slightly loosen up your starting hand selections in
these rounds, roughly to what you would play in a normal ring
game. This is the time in the tournament where you need to start
attempting to get enough chips to give you a legitimate chance
to win. Even if you survive into the later stages of the
tournament, if your chip stack is too small you will be forced
to take too many chances, which rarely works out well.
During the late rounds of the tournament your play will be
dictated mostly by the size of your chip stack. When you have a
small stack, you will need to take a few more chances in hopes
to increase your chances to win. This will increase your chances
of getting knocked out, but it is better than getting blinded
off. When you have a large chip stack, you can either re-tighten
your starting hand requirements until only a few players remain
or you may want to start looking for short stacks to bully.
Don’t overdo this though, as a few losses can put a large dent
in even a large chip stack.
To become a winning limit Omaha eight tournament player, you
must be at your best every single hand of the tournament. When
you aren’t involved in a hand, you should try to learn as much
as possible about your opponents. You never know when you may
meet one of them at the final table, and a single tendency or
tell can make the difference between first place and seventh or
eighth.