Top 100 Omaha Starting Hands

This is a vital pot limit Omaha tip that needs to be taken into consideration every time you are picking a pot limit Omaha starting hand. Here are the top five pot limit Omaha Starting hands. These are the best hands ranking from number 1 to number 5 listed with exactly where their total value comes from. The cards that share a number share a suit.

• Top 100 Omaha Starting Hands
• Top 100 Omaha Starting Hands Baseball

Computer analysis of the best starting hands has proven that the best starting hand for Omaha is A-A-K-K (double suited). One favorite starting hand for Omaha is A-A-J-10 (double suited), because of its wider range for making the nut straight (J-7, Q-8, K-9, and A-10). Omaha starting hands. The starting hands differ in Pot Limit Omaha and there are different strategies to play them as well. Now, there are thirty starting hands (or hole cards) with the highest percentage of winning. If you play with these hands, you are sure to be in a chip lead. However, more on pre-flop betting later. In Omaha, a pair of Kings ranks in eighth position, and they are also double-suited with a pair of cowgirls a.k.a. Since Omaha poker is a drawing game, a single pair of Aces just won’t make the grade. Let’s look at the top 10 listing of best starting hands in Omaha poker: AAKK - Double-suited; AAJ10 - Double-suited; AAQQ - Double-suited. So many combinations of hands in PLO have an extremely similar change of winning pre-flop, for example a hand like a a k k is a very marginal favourite to win pre-flop against a hand like q j 10 9. We've listed the best 30 starting hands in Pot Limit Omaha below, all of which are Double Suited.

Starting hands in Pot-Limit Omaha are grouped by structure. With so many possible 4-card combinations it is actually the suits, closeness of the cards and pairs as well as the high card strength that makes the difference between a strong starting hand and a weak one. Add to this the fact that seemingly insignificant differences – for example a gap at the top end of your connected middle cards compared to a gap at the bottom end – make a huge difference and it is difficult to come up with some simple ‘cut off point’ between good and poor hands in the same way we do in Holdem.

Of course, many players new to Omaha look for a PLO starting hand chart first – these are common in Holdem, so why not for Omaha!
I am happy to be publishing a contribution from a reader today, the following Omaha starting hands chart was put together by Anthony, from Ashburn VA – an Omaha fan with a genuine will to help people new to the game.

This chart is based on Jeff Hwang’s playing guidelines, the position and raise / fold percentages are based on deep-stacked play and full-ring tables. Adapting this for 6-max games should be straight forward enough for motivated readers, you are starting in Mid-Position compared to a full table and should be raising a lot from the cut-off and button positions.

Click the graphic below to see the full chart. Your feedback is welcomed, particularly on how this could be adapted for different situations and stack sizes, mail us at [email protected] anytime.

Suggested Starting Hand Structures – based on deepstack FR games, should be adjusted for 6max

Top 100 Omaha Starting Hands

Just like to close with my thanks to Anthony for these charts – you can contact him at the following address ashburnpokerclub (at sign) gmail.comands are playable while others are not check out the following guides:

PLO Starting Hands Chart

Here is a basic and conservative pot limit omaha hand chart for being the first to open (everyone folds to you) in various positions.

Note that “BBB” or “NNN” assumes the random cards are different (unpaired).

Key:

B: Broadway card (A, K, Q, J, T) ss: Single suited

N: Non-low card (K, Q, J, T, 9) ds: Double suited

x: Any card as: Ace suited

r: Rainbow ks: King suited

UTG:

BBBB, NNNNss, ANNNas, AKNNds, AKQxds, AAxx, AKKxss, KK65ss +, KKBBr +, AQQxas +, QQxxds, 9988 +, TT98ss +, T988ss +, JTT9ss +, JJT8ds +, QQ98ss +, QQT8ss +, QJT9r +, A987as +, 9876ss +, T976ss +, T986ss +, QT98ds

MP:

All of the above plus KK54ss +, QQBBss, QT98ss, QT98ss, J987ds, A876as, 9875ss, 9865ss, JJ98ds, 9987ss, 9877ss, T998ss

Also play any BBBBds hand (paired or not)

CO:

All of the above and add BBBxds, KKxx, QQ76ss +, A88xas +, 5566 +, 4567ss +, 5567ss +, 7765ss +, 8776ss +, A456as +, K765ks +, 9765ss +, 8654ds +, 9976ss +,TT86ss +, 9986ss + JT9xss +, T98xds +, QJ9xds +, QT9xds +

Also play any BBBBss hand (paired or not)

BTN:

All of the above and add BBBxss, QQxx, A66xas +, A234as +, 2345ss +, 4455 +, 3567ss +, 4456ss +, 6654ss +, 7643ss +, K654ks +, 7754ss+, 8864ss +, J98xds +, 876xss+, 456xds +

SB:

Top 100 Omaha Starting Hands Baseball

Start out same UTG, you then add hands slowly going up the positions in the chart depending on how much the BB reacts (if he 3bets light, uses positional advantage postflop, etc.). Note that you should be doing the same thing for the other position depending on what you know of the people left to act behind you (especially the BTN and CO).