Good starting hands vs. bad starting hands

In Pot-Limit Omaha the value of a starting hand depends on the possible 2-card combinations your 4 hole cards can represent. For example:

AAJT
This hand has some nice 2-card combinations:
AA
AJ
AT
JT

These two short movies nicely show the difference between a good and a bad pot-limit omaha starting hand.

Tom Dwan versus Patrick Antonius

At the Aussie Millions 2009 cash game Dwan and Antonius played some mixed NLHE and PLO heads-up, with as much as 2,5 million dollars on the table.

This results in some very interesting poker. Check it out!

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Always draw to the Nuts!

In PLO you’ll often commit a fair amount of chips without a made hand, mostly because you get great odds on your draws. BUT remember you should ALWAYS be drawing to the nuts. An example:

Although Hero’s draw was still good on the flop, he was drawing dead when the board paired and he lost his whole stack when he hit his (dead) nut flush draw on the river.

So write this on a Post-It and glue it to the side of your computerscreen:
Pot Limit Omaha rule #1: Always draw to the nuts.