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Title: How to Win at Omaha High-Low Poker by Mike Cappelletti ISBN: 1-58042-114-8 Publisher: Cardoza Publishing Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: If you know starting hands already, this book will help you.
Comment: Cappelletti is too loose in his starting hand recommendations in my book. That being said, the rest of the material is very useful. I had already played a great deal of winning O8 before reading this book and I had read Zee's book, but was still able to find some great insightful advice to apply to my game when playing. I especially liked how he got into the differences in play between high flops and low flops and the push and pull hands. This book is very informative and will help your game, just don't play as loose as the author does preflop.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very dissapointing!
Comment: I was terribly dissapointed with this book. It struck me as a lazy effort to cash in -- a cut and paste of magazine articles and ego massaging annecdotes -- not a useful product for customers. The content is disorganized. Almost everything presented is vague. Most comments, described hands and annecdotes are about high-stakes tight games, when in the real world most customers are dealing with lower-limit loose games. I still do not have a clear idea from it what starting hands (besides obvious ones) he reccomends being played and from which position in which type of game. And the charts are HORRIBLE! They are obtuse and hard to read, some of them flat out don't make sense -- at least to a common player. There are references to 11 handed play (are there enough cards in the deck for that with the burns? -- I've never seen 11 seats at an Omaha table anywhere online -- nor in the LA card rooms)There are useless odds charts based on all hands going to river (which they don't) and there is almost no information on adjusting to shorthand (when a table has empty seats) or heads up (when playing tournaments)... The author should have figured out if he was writing for typical low/moderate limit players in typical loose games -- or high limit, aggressive pre-flop games. Of course then he wouldn't have enough material to fill out a book. Which is my take on this whole project. Compare it to Phil Hellmuth Jr.'s "Play Poker like the Pros" where step-by-step, beggining or intermediete players are given a set of tools, rules and an organized approach of how to apply, adapt and expand them to different game conditions and experience levels.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Book, three flaws
Comment: This is a very helpful and entertaining book. It aided me in thinking about this potentially very profitable game. Combined with online information by Steve Badger and by Annie Duke, it has been enough to keep my O8 adventures profitable.
The interesting new things I got from this book were the advice to play high flops aggressively, the raise with third nuts to drive out the second nuts (dangerous but very profitable at times) and the advice on table selection (Cappalletti's Number)
The flaws:
1: There should be a bit more about starting hand selection. O8 is a starting hand game. You are not often going to outplay anyone post-flop, at least I'M not.
Having re-read the book, I will have to modify this part of the review. He does go into starting hand selection quite extensively but I found his ideas pretty much identical to what I had already picked up from other sources and not surprising or very intersting, although I think that they are correct. So, I didn't think that much about them when I wrote this review. He does seem to give less credence to the "all four cards must be useful" concept than Steve Badger, among others. Playing A2XX when XX are crap is fairly loose by the standards I was taught. However, make XX of ANY value at all and I agree it can be played profitably.
2: He digresses a great deal into hi-limit, pot-limit and other tough Omaha venues. He also gets into Holdem. These are some of the most entertaining moments in the book but won't be popular with those who want technical advice for profitable low-limit O8.
3: He says O8 is fun. Not a matter of taste. He is wrong.
My one other problem is that the one table of O8 that is usually in play at Foxwoods does not, whatever Mr. C's experience there in the past, usually consist of loose enough players to meet his ideal of a good table. On weekdays, especially, the number of people seeing the flop on average can get as low as 4 or even 3.5 I also don't see O8 growing in popularity the way Mr. C. does. It had its growth and I think that we will see a die-back.
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Will in New Haven
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Title: Winning Omaha/8 Poker by Mark Tenner, Lou Krieger ISBN: 1886070199 Publisher: Conjelco Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Winner's Guide to Omaha Poker by Ken Warren ISBN: 1580421024 Publisher: Cardoza Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Tournament Poker for Advanced Players (Advance Player) by David Sklansky ISBN: 1880685280 Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub. Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: High Low Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-Or-Better for Advanced Players (Advance Player) by Ray Zee ISBN: 1880685108 Publisher: Two Plus Two Pub. Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Internet Texas Hold'em: Winning Strategies from an Internet Pro by Matthew Hilger ISBN: 0974150207 Publisher: Dimat Enterprises Inc Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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