PL Omaha Mistakes: Minimum Raise
Posted under: data-via="pokergames24"
data-text="PL Omaha Mistakes: Minimum Raise"
data-count="horizontal">Tweet
Pot Limit Omaha gains popularity every day. However, there are some common mistakes that people make and in the series “PL Omaha Mistakes” we will learn how to avoid them. In this article we concentrate on the minimum raise or min-raise.
Examples of Min-Raising
Actually, I decided to write this article because of a PL Omaha hand I recently played and I can’t stop thinking about it. You will see the cards on the board and my hand too but I will post my opponent’s hand after that.
I was dealt:
3♠ 4♥ A♥ Q♣
The flop came:
9♠ 2♥ K♥
My opponent made a pot-sized bet and I made a call. The turn came:
8 ♥
This is the critical point where my opponent made another pot-sized bet and I made a missclick and min-raised him on the best hand possible – Ace high flush. Of course the villain made a call and the turn came:
2 ♣
Yeah, you guessed it right – the worst thing I could see – paired board. I was mad about it because at the time I made the min-raise I actually wanted to make a pot-sized bet. Of course it doesn’t necessarily mean that my opponent would throw away his hand but this was the right thing I had to do. And in the end I have to tell you he had K2 which makes a full house and he won the hand.
Bluffing with a Minimum Raise in PL Omaha
Attention, do not bluff with a min-raise in Pot Limit Omaha. You won’t scare anyone. Because Omaha is a game of the draws, meaning that your opponent could hold a good drawing hand and even if he doesn’t hold the best hand he would call you just because he has the right pot odds.