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[QUOTE="dj11, post: 573299, member: 13851"]
[b]Why not preflop raise in Omaha[/b]

Here's a thought.
Omaha being the huge drawing game it is, no matter what you hold at a full table, preflop, IT IS NOT SAFE !

AAKK 2 suited? Loses to a mid card straight too often to consider it really strong.  Fill several paragraphs here with your own takes on great starting hands gone south.

My take on it is that I want to exert as much control over a pot as I can.  I know others will raise the pot, and I know that most of the time they have no clue.  So I can call, ride along and steal when I bet big on the turn or river.  Or I can see that my holdings are going nowhere and quietly drop out of the bidding.

This concept changes radically at a shorthanded table.  There, raises do get respect.  But at full tables, it is a bad strategy to raise in a limit game without having made a hand, which CAN NOT happen until the flop is seen.

There are a range of hands that offer good opportunities to continue, a pig pair combined with suits and connectors for example.

Above is my take on Omaha Hi.  For Hi/Lo,  preflop  raises are unnecessary, the rest of the table will cap it for you way to often.  Existing text will suggest you  aim at scooping (taking both hi and lo).  Great theory,  impractical in practice most of the time. I think the same preflop hand analysis applies, but with the added importance of aces, and if the hand is likely to be good lo, it will probably want backup lo cards.  AA23 2 suited would be a gem of a hand.

Certainly for someone new to Omaha  no limit would/could be disastrous.
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