Some newbie tips scrounged up by Phaedrus75:

I have been trying to watch as many David Eistein Videos as time will allow on RPT. He is the site’s Omaha specialist. So far I have watched all the cash game videos and only a couple of tournament videos.

Whilst I still have not played any multi-table tournaments, I do note that David suggests a few things of relevance to this thread. From memory these are:

1. Don’t preflop raise (much if at all).

2. Don’t chase draws unless they are to the nuts

3. Occasionally he will play a Hi only hands but mostly he is playing start cards which allow for a scoop.

4. He says on numerous occasions that patience is even more important in Omaha than hold’em.

Now, for some of my own strategic throughts….

We know that in Holdem Tournaments GCI, Mzone, Inflection Point Play and Structured Hand Analysis govern pre flop play considerably, usually in the form of all in moves when the blinds are high.

However in Holdem, there can be a pretty big difference between pre flop hand strengths. Accordingly, when Harrington runs through his structured hand analysis in HOH V2, to show that pushing 10-8s is positive EV from Red M, much of the positive EV comes from fold equity.

As Raz correctly points out, there is much less difference in pre flop hand strength in Omaha which should mean that you will have less fold equity. Accordingly, shoving and pre flop agression from low M is unlikely to have the same effectiveness (this coming from a guy who has never played a tournament though so I really am only guessing here).

If that is the case that you have less fold equity, then it stands to reason that you need to have more patience.

Or otherwise, the kind of strategy in one of my previous threads called “Is this SNG strategy a Stitch up? would make even more sense in Omaha. That is, when you are short stacked, calling liberally makes alot of sense since you have no fold equity anyway and at least you are calling for a guaranteed big pot.

The above comes from zero experience so I am just putting it out there as a hypothetical which might spark a line of theory from more experienced O8 tournament players.

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