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Omaha High-Low: Play to Win With The Odds: Play to win with the odds
Price:$17.82
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Product Description
This is the only book that shows you the chances that every one of the 5,278 Omaha high-low hands has of winning the high end of the pot, the low end of it, and how often it is expected to scoop all the chips. |
Customers Reviews
2008-06-20
Just the Facts MAM
Bill Boston has done the Omaha/8 player a great favor by systematically and exhaustively tabulating the results of playing each possible starting hand.
Another reviewer downgraded his rating because Boston's discussion could be more complete. My take is just the opposite - the extensive tables in this small volume are most valuable when the user studies them to arrive at his own understanding of what works and what doesn't in Omaha/8. For example, Boston shows that any hand with a 7, 8, or 9 is a loser over time. His tables also show that all hands with X as the second low card are also losers over time. I'll leave it to the serious player to study the tables Boston provides to determine the rank of X.
And there's more, but you'll have to dig into this treasure trove of research data to find it.
Could I pan the book because of how the data was collected? Sure. The author made certain assumptions about the types of opponents and my opponents play somewhat differently. He didn't consider suitedness in some situations where I'd like to know more (i.e. AdKd4h2h).
If you are looking for a source that gives you an exhaustive list of conclusions this book is probably not for you. But if you're looking for the raw research results that you can study to draw your own conclusions without doing the tedious work required to generate it I highly recommend this one.
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2008-06-12
Interesting, but....
Mr. Boston has clearly spent a lot of time and effort generating the massive tables that comprise most of this book, and for a serious player that's worth the cost. What he actually says in terms of advice, however, is sketchy and sparse. He generally goes by the conservative wait-for-good-hands philosophy.
Mostly, he has exhaustively run all possible hands thru many simulations and ranked them. This is interesting enough, but I have some quibbles with his classifications. Take a hand like AK32. He calls it suited if the ace is suited, double-suited if the King and Ace are both suited, and unsuited otherwise. I presume he calls it just "suited" if all four are the same suit, but he doesn't say. Also, I claim it adds small but significant value to the hand if the King only is suited, but he doesn't seem to think so.
If he separated all the possibilities the book would be impossibly large... but the many possibilities are what attract us (the players) to the game, nicht wahr?
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