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Server Time: 12/1/2008 9:46:22 PM PACIFIC |
 Small Blind, O8, Snorbolus, 12. Aug 2003 17:56 | ||
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| Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. Your advice helps tremendously. Another big leak in my game seems to be small blind play. I have no idea how tight or loose I should play. I have been tending on the loose side pre-flop, compared to how I play my small blind in Hold'em. My reasoning has been that there are lots of ways for a flop to hit a ragady Omaha hand. However, I am now beginning to suspect that my flop play pretty much sucks. So perhaps I should tighten up some. Given that I aim to improve my play on the flop, how tight should I be aiming to start from the small blind now (while still learning to play the flop), and in the future (once I am better post-flop)? Snorbolus | ||
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| Re: Small Blind, O8, 4 POKER, 13. Aug 2003 00:46 | ||
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| If you are a solid flop player and know when to bail when it isn't correct for you to continue, then you can enter more pots from the SB position. The blinds only suck you in if you let them. Alot will also depend on the amount of players that have entered the pot already, because some types of hands can become very profitable against the right amount of opponents.........But, you don't want to come in with trash either, so take a good look at the hand first, and when you put that extra bet in from the SB, first make sure that you are able to limp in for just the half bet if the hand is not really strong, and be aware as to who is in the hand with you........take a good look at the flop.......know who is betting and from what position, etc, etc......and apply all the guidlines that need to be applied in this game, and make your best decision from there and what your outs are for connecting on a nut hand. If you can get in cheaply with a decent hand, then put in the extra bet because as long as you don't let the hand cost you more than it really should on the flop, it can be a profitable play. I still tend to play pretty tight out of the SB even though I am fully aware of the game, but there are certain hands that I will put the extra bet in when there's enough opponents in there in case I hit a nut hand, because my guidlines for *continuing* with a hand post-flop are very strict. So if the pot odds are there.....I'll toss in the extra bet, but I would never do it with hands that are middle cards simply because they have almost no chance at taking high or low. Either four pretty decent high cards, or four decent enough low cards, and two of those cards where I can make a wheel.(but NOT a low hand like 5-3-6-9, or 4-4-6-8, or 5-6-7-8). More like, 2-4-5-K with a suited King, or a hand like A-5-Q-10 with a suited Ace. Hands that can flop a nut, or a really good draw to one........but there not really the "type" of hands that you would enter a pot with from a "free position" in a full game, but for a cheap price from a SB where you already have money involved....I would play similar hands to those above. For now, if you're still having a little trouble when it comes to releasing your hand after the flop....I would stick to playing tight out of the SB. 4P- | ||
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