PLO tournaments

PLO tournaments are the hardest form of poker tournaments out there today. The swings in a tournament such as this can cripple you emotionally and physically losing all your chips. The key to playing this type of tournament is getting paid off or winning hands that you have made hands likes boats, but also to make your draws. If you play draws aggressively and miss them it could be a quick day. You want to play this style of tournament just like that of a no limit tournament. You want to put your poker bonus money in with statistically the best hands, win races, and go about progressing through the tournament.

At the early stage of a tournament like this the key is to play as few pots as possible. When the blinds are small you want to wait for big cards and get your money in with the best of it. If you can consistently do that throughout the course of the tournament and run very well you will have a stack by the end of it, and will not have to gamble as much as others. You can play tight in this tournament more than other tournaments and still get paid off when you have hands. Of course your hands may be easier to read in certain spots, but even so players will still play back at you. Most players if they see a tight player entering a pot will also enter the pot in hopes to make their hand and get paid off for it. To combat the loose aggressive players at the table just play the waiting game. Eventually you will see these players go on tilt or lose a big hand, and start to play every pot. When they do this hopefully you will get a hand to play and stack them or double your chips up. It happens in every tournament and especially this style of tourney where players go on tilt and blow through chips in a hurry.

At the later stages of a Pot limit Omaha tournament you want to start using your tight image to take down more pots. You will have to gamble eventually and when the money bubble is coming around or has just burst you can kick it in to second gear and start to make a run at winning the tournament. You will have to win more races then imaginable because the variance is so great, and the only way to combat the variance is by playing tight and waiting for big hands. But, you will have to gamble and put the money in with a coin flip a bunch of times and can take crippling or brutal river bad beats. This type of tournament is difficult to master simply because you have to run so well and avoid bad turns or rivers throughout. To make yourself or put yourself into contention for a win you have to read your opponents well and understand the math well. If you can do both of these things well you can have success maybe not instantly, but over the long run you will have a couple final tables under your belt.