FTOPS XV at Full Tilt and Bluffing in Omaha Poker

Omaha poker is a game that involves seeing a lot more cards and analyzing a lot more possibilities than Texas Holdem and that means you need to bluff differently. Omaha has so many more possibilities involved that bluffing so it usually doesn’t work as well as in Holdem. The main reason for this is that most people believe they can draw to something and make their hand. Omaha poker is really more of a game of math than Holdem. If you have the numbers in Omaha you are going to win. Bluffing just doesn’t work as well but it still can be done if you understand what you are doing. Full tilt poker will be running FTOPS XV events with more that $17 million given away in guaranteed prize money with many Omaha poker tournaments.

The first Omaha poker event in FTOPS XV will be event #2 on February 11th at 14:00EST with a guaranteed prize pool of $250,000. The FTOPS XV tournament will be hosted by Sigi Stockinger and the game will be pot limit Omaha. Before playing in the FTOPS XV Omaha poker events, you should know that the first key to bluffing in Omaha is to understand that it works a lot better on good Omaha poker players than on bad ones. This sounds weird but it is very true. If you want to pull off a good bluff in Omaha then you need players that can think and not just call every bet you make. Many new players aren’t smart enough to understand bluffing in Omaha and they are going to call everything, so trying a bluff against them is not going to work.

Your first tip for bluffing in Omaha tournament is to only try it against good poker players. Bluffing in Omaha has two main forms. You can try to bluff when you have absolutely nothing or you can do a semi-bluff where you could draw to something. Unlike Texas Holdem, stone cold bluffs don’t work very well in Omaha. Far too often the hand goes to a showdown and you need to have something to work with. The semi-bluff works better because if you do get called you have a chance of making your hand anyway. Many of the semi-bluffs in Omaha are going to be straight and flush draws. There are way too many players that try bluffing without knowing what they are doing and this applies to Omaha as well as to Holdem. Event #6 in FTOPS XV will be a good chance to practice your bluffing with a $350,000 guaranteed prize pool for playing pot limit Omaha with a 6 player max at each table and will be hosted by Richard Ashby on February 13th 14:00EST.

If you want to be a good bluffer when you are playing Omaha then you need to understand your opponents at the table. As mentioned earlier, you simply are not going to bluff new Omaha poker players very often. New players simply are not going to fold their hands so you are wasting your time trying to bluff them. If you want to bluff a new player then you better have some sort of hand you can make because more often than not the hand is going to a showdown. The largest Omaha poker tournament of all the FTOPS XV events will be #23 on February 20th at 16:00EST. The tournament will have a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000 and will be a $100 buy-in with rebuys hosted by Joe Beevers.