Omaha poker is rapidly emerging as the preferred game for action enthusiasts and a notable event at the World Series of Poker. Cloutier and McEvoy, who have secured four World Series of Poker championships in Omaha contests, provide players with clear strategies and effective tips. They guide players through the rules of the game, top initial hands, tactics for the flop, turn, and river, understanding the board for high and low, risky draws, winning strategies for low-limit and high-stakes games, ways to compete against loose and tight rivals, and varying tactics for re-buy and freeze-out tournaments.

Participants acquire knowledge about the most favorable initial hands, understand the risks of slowplaying a significant hand, learn the concept of danglers and the reason successful players avoid them, comprehend why pot-limit Omaha is the unique poker game where occasionally folding the nuts on the flop is the right strategy, and overall, they learn the techniques to accumulate substantial earnings in the game!

The price of this new, expanded edition has been cut by $10, and its page count significantly increased. It features over 15 comprehensive practice hands, with a special focus on tournament play and the latest tournament structures. More than 25 new card illustrations have also been included.

The book provides clear strategies and insightful advice, teaching players the most favourable starting hands, tactics for the flop, turn, and river, how to identify risky draws, succeed at both low-limit and high-stakes games, play against both loose and tight opponents, and the distinct strategies needed for rebuy and freeze-out tournaments. Players will also learn when it can be perilous to slowplay a big hand, what danglers are, and why successful players avoid them. In pot-limit Omaha, which is the only poker game where occasionally folding the nuts on the flop is the right move, players will understand why this is so.

This latest edition includes additional strategies on how to make the most of Omaha high-low in multi-game events, drawing on Cloutier’s personal experience at the final table of the inaugural $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament at the World Series of Poker.

In this insightful book, two of the world’s most successful Omaha players, who have collectively won four Omaha bracelets and amassed millions in winnings, impart their priceless wisdom and triumphant tactics. They will guide you on how to amass more poker earnings than you could have ever envisaged. Championship Omaha is brimming with precious advice, confidential tricks, enlightening practice rounds, and combat-tested strategies, offering everything required to master the three primary versions of the game: high-low, pot-limit, and limit high.

You’ll also gain insight into: Robust winning strategies for both tournaments and cash games (across low and high stakes) The significance of starting hands, position, playing the flop, and betting The criticality of hand values, danglers, secondary draws, and rundowns Techniques for trapping, saving bets, drawing hands, and winning sizeable pots, and more!

Tom McEvoy, who clinched the World Poker Championship in 1983, is a celebrated author and four-time World Series champion. He penned Tournament Poker, hailed by Las Vegas’ Gamblers Book Club as “one of the most significant poker books ever written.” Additionally, McEvoy co-authored the “Championship Series,” which includes Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold’em, Championship Stud, Championship Tournament Poker, and Championship Hold’em.

T.J. Cloutier, who was crowned Player of the Year in 1998, has claimed victory in four World Series of Poker championships. He remains the sole player in history to have secured bracelets in all three variations of Omaha games: high-low Omaha, high limit Omaha, and pot-limit Omaha. Previously a renowned football player in the Canadian league, T.J. transitioned to professional poker in the 1980s, earning a reputation as a road gambler and becoming one of the world’s most acclaimed tournament players. He has co-written Championship Tournament Poker, Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold’em, and Championship Hold’em.