Hands with all broadway cards can perform very well when the board has no possible low, and hands like A23xx can catch a wheel and safety into lows when other people get negated.īluffing may seem tougher against so many cards, but finding good bluffs is the mark of a strong Big O player.
The big hands people wait for are AA2xx, A23xx, AKQJ3, etc. In any hi/lo game your goal is to scoop the pot, meaning you win both the high and low (or just the high if there is no low possible). Let’s first start by understanding good hands vs deceptive hands: Good hands have scoop potential: Getting 5 cards in Big-O vs the 4 cards of traditional O8 is a huge difference which allows you to get dealt more interesting hands. If you’ve never played O8 before, watch this video first and get the basics so that you understand how the high and low hands work (or if you already understand the basics, skip below the video). So not only do you get 5 cards per hand, but many pots end up getting split between the high hand and the low hand…so it’s common for pots to grow quickly. If you’ve never played Big-O before, it’s 5 card pot-limit Omaha 8-or-better.
It’s a great game that can be played with 8 or less people, and has a ton of gamble baked right into the format.
Big-O is quickly becoming one of my favorite non-NL games to play.
