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Title: High-Low-Split Poker, Seven-Card Stud and Omaha Eight-or-better for Advan
by Ray Zee, Mason Malmuth, Lynne Loomis
ISBN: 1-880685-10-8
Publisher: Two Plus Two Publishing LLC
Pub. Date: August, 1994
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $34.95
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Average Customer Rating: 2.75 (8 reviews)

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Rating: 1
Summary: bleh......
Comment: After reading the other books from Two Plus Two publishing by Sklansky & Malmuth, I was let down by this offering. I play both Stud 8/b and Omaha 8/b and I can't really say that this book helped me at all. Anyone who's logged any time at the tables knows the basics of live cards in Stud 8/b and drawing to the nuts in O8B. What I found especially irritating was the deceptive size of the book. Zee goes through the teaching sections and then says the EXACT same thing in the "Questions and Answers" section, giving the EXACT same answers. Considering how few good books there are on the subject of high-low poker, I thought surely an offering from Two Plus Two would be the definitive authority, but alas, buy this book and you'll be disappointed.

Rating: 4
Summary: The grandaddy of hi/lo books
Comment: "High-Low Split Poker" was, for most of it's existence, the *only* book out there on Omaha and hi/lo 7-card stud. When I started playing Omaha a few years ago, this was the only book I could find on the subject. I think that is why most people who are looking at it today, in the context of the burgeoning popularity of poker (particularly hold'em) and poker literature, are giving it mixed reviews. At the time the book was written, poker, and especially Omaha, were not nearly as popular as they are in 2004. Omaha is still dragging way behind hold'em as the most popular poker game in casinos mainly because it is a much slower game, is much more complex (in my view), and just isn't as 'sexy' as Texas hold'em. Could you imagine them making a movie like 'Rounders' centered on an Omaha game? No one would watch.

True, only half of this book is dedicated to Omaha, and Zee tries to cover a great deal of material in a small amount of space - which will inevitably lead to short cuts. But as a beginning Omaha book that leads the reader from the basics all the way to some advanced theory, this book has no rival. If you are serious about learning how to play Omaha, start with this book.

For those complaining that only half the book deals with Omaha, the reason hi/lo stud was lumped together with Omaha is because most people who start to play Omaha will find they also enjoy hi/lo stud if they give it a chance. Hi/lo stud is rarely found in casinos (at limits lower than $10/$20), but is very popular in home games due to its ability to keep players in the hand and make pots large -- allbeit usually split.

The upshot of this review: new books on Omaha are appearing frequently and some may be better than this one (I don't know, I haven't read them all yet), but this is where hi/lo theory all began and for that reason alone belongs on any serious Omaha player's bookcase.

Rating: 1
Summary: High-Low-Split Poker...
Comment: My main interest in buying this book was for information on Omaha high-low and overall I found this to be very disappointing. First, since the book is split between stud and omaha, I had little interest in the stud portion. Second, the information on Omaha was of a very general nature and not nearly as in-depth and specific as the Hold Em for Advanced Players by Sklansky. Why Omaha high-low didn't get its own book is beyond me, is it because the author just doesn't have that much strategy to share? That was my feeling and I ended up selling my copy through amazon marketplace. I've found more useful information on Omaha strategy at online websites than in this book.

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