I reveal to you a hand I recently played in Omaha High. Why is it so interesting? The example teaches you the key reason why you should only draw to the nuts. In cases you're making loose calls or play speculative although not great hands in Omaha, you will find yourself in a very tough and sometimes uncomfortable situation.
The game was six handed Pot-Limit Omaha High with $0,50/$1 blinds. The Cutoff and Hijack both folded and I got QdQs4c3d. I bet pot $3,5. The button raised to $7, the tiny blind folded nevertheless the big blind bet the pot and raised to $26. This was the point where the stack sizes would have to be taken into consideration to choose whether I should make call you aren't. I had $123,50, the button had $168 as well as the big blind $148. This means we were all sitting with deep stacks and if I hit my hand I could have won a substantial pot. I found the pot odds good, a possible problem wss that I didn't know exactly what the button can do. In case he only calls then I am delighted to make the call. On one other hand if he uses the squeeze play and 4bets then I will in all probability ought to fold my hand. I decided to make the call so did the button. The pot was $78,50.
The flop came: 5d6cJd. The big blind bet the pot, $78,50.
I pushed all-in with $97,50 but the button also pushed his stack in the centre with $142 along with the original bettor made the call together with his remaining $43,50. I was playing for the main pot of $371, and the other players for that $49 side pot.
Then came the shock. It was clear the first player had aces, but he previously it using the flush draw: Ad2dAc9h. This already reduced my chances. The second shock came when I saw one other player's holding: QhThJsJc. This meant I had hitting the residual one queen or perhaps the straight however the board cannot pair or perhaps a flush card couldn't hit the turn or river. This means the set had 51%, the aces while using nut flush draw 28% and I had 21% chance. I had a terrible possibility of winning the hand. The turn was the 8s as well as the river was the Kd meaning the pair of aces hit the nut flush.
This time I had to spend the cost. Keep in mind that Omaha High could be the game of the nuts. I probably should have folded straight away preflop, or for the flop because of the squeeze play option against two opponents. As you have seen, a "little bit of this as well as a little amount of that" isn't good enough to win in omaha (I talk about keeping the non-nut straight and non-nut flush draw).
When you make big preflop decisions try to only play hands which don't give tough situations post-flop where one can lose big pots.
