Pot Limit Omaha Best 30 Starting Hands

Matt Ranger• 36,678 Views • on 11/5/12

The Top 30 Starting Hands in PLO

The difference between Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) and No Limit Hold'Em (NLH) is still massively underestimated.

When starting out in PLO, it's imperative that you adjust your starting hands from NLHE.

in Hold 'Em, a hand like qq is considered extremely strong, however, in PLO, a hand like qq83 is a very weak hand and should almost never be played.
So many combinations of hands in PLO have an extremely similar change of winning pre-flop, for example a hand like aakk is a very marginal favourite to win pre-flop against a hand like qj109.

We've listed the best 30 starting hands in Pot Limit Omaha below, all of which are Double Suited.

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Make sure that you fully understand Omaha Rules before you begin your Omaha poker career and that you also know How to play pairs and Rundowns in Omaha

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Matt Ranger

Matt Ranger, Small-Stakes PLO Coach at PokerVIP.com Matt Ranger is a small stakes PLO player and coach from Montréal, Canada. He is also an economics student and claims to “have the rap patrol on gat patrol” (Editor’s note: we have ... Read More