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www.partypoker.com – Although I do not profess to be the greatest hi/lo player around, I do have a reasonable grasp of the game, and there are some points which become more apparent the more often you play. One of which is that inexperienced players will always love getting involved with any big pair, and although this can sometimes work, I do not have too much interest in a hand such as (Q,Q,6,3).

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The first point to make is that the cards which are Q, and Q, are taking up spaces which could be filled by a 4,5 in our example perhaps giving us a double suited (3,4,5,6). With the pocket pair, the only realistic way you can improve this part of the hand is to hit one of two cards to make a set, which doesn’t happen often. The hand has so much strength in Holdem partly due to the fact that the pair alone often wins, but how often in omaha does a single pair win? Rarely. This is especially so when you have more players wanting to see flops than in Holdem.

Also in hi/lo, many players raise and reraise heavily preflop with premium hands such as (A,2,3,4) and often end up getting all their chips in heads up. But such is the frequency that you will end up chopping the pot in half, that I do not see how you can gain much from this. After all, you can get a huge stack all in heads up, chop the pot in half, and you’ve basically won nothing. I much prefer letting several players go to a flop, and if you make your low hand, it’s going to be a strong low hand, and you will end up splitting 4 or 5 players money, instead of 2.

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