Omaha strategy in both cash and tournament games.

1) If you're not drawing the nuts, you are drawing dead.
- In Omaha you will more often drawing dead then try to not playing draws on flop and maybe even the turn unless you are drawing the nuts for cheap if you're in cash games. It's rarely that players will flop a made hand that is likely to still be the nuts by the end of the hand. So make sure you are drawing to the nuts because if you are not, and it hits, you will often find yourself with the 2nd best hand.

A simple example is; with players having 4 cards in hands, if you are drawing to the king high flush, the odds are fairly good that someone else is drawing to an ace high flush and if hits, you're the one actually dead in the pot. Make sure to draw the nuts.

2) One of the differences between a winning Omaha player and a losing one is the winning player can fold three of a kind.
- Three of a kind is a drawing hand, not a made hand like in Texas Hold'em Poker. Trips get more people in trouble playing Omaha than anything, except for maybe principle #1 above. Three of a kind is a very vulnerable hand. You're really drawing to a full house, and if you don't make it and there are three to a straight or three to a flush on the board, you should probably fold. You will save yourself a lot of money/chips.

3) There is no such thing as slow playing in Omaha.
- This is something else that costs players a lot of pots. Thinking that their trips is safe on a rainbow flop, many try to get fancy and try to slow play, allowing someone else to catch a better hand. Then when they do try to speed up, they find themselves a big underdog. One card in Omaha can mean the difference between being a big favorite and a big underdog. You never know what card will give another player better than trips in a situation like this, but if you bet you trips, you will probably push out someone who would have made a better hand.

4) Don't go overboard with betting.
- Just because you are allowed to bet the pot, does not mean that you should. Pre-flop, if you have a big hand, you might want to bet the pot to isolate/create value but after evaluate and calculate your odds. Too many people just bet the pot at every opportunity and end up losing far more than they should. Understand the art of pot manipulation and take advantage of it as it would allow you to win more and lose less.

5) Keep bluffing to a minimum.
- Omaha is not a bluffing game. This is another mistake that costs players a lot of chips. There are probably going to be several in the pot, and you have no idea what the flop could have given one of them. They are infrequent situations where a bluff might be appropriate, but they are few and far between, so don't bother.

If you don't have a real hand, don't bet, you might run into someone who does.

6) And finally look for reasons to fold, not reasons to call.
- It is human nature to try to find reasons to call bets, rather than to fold. You must learn to override that impulse. A backdoor ten high flush draw is not a reason to call, it's a reason to fold. If you can't immediately see a reason to call, don't look for one.