Omaha Books

You can't swing a dead chicken in a bookstore without hitting a book about how to improve your Texas Hold'em play. Of course, if you are the sort of person who goes about swinging deceased poultry in places where books are bought, than you have the sort of problems that literature simply won't fix. If you are also the type of person who goes Borders in search of good instructional material about the finer points of Omaha Hold'em, you will also have some problems. There just simply are not that many good books on how to play that particular game (at least not in relation to the number of books written about Texas Hold'em). Below there is a couple of the better titles listed. One deals with Omaha Hold'em, the other the High/Low variation of the game.

OMAHA HOLD’EM POKER: THE ACTION GAME

For those who are beginners in Omaha, Bob Ciaffone's book is a decent good purchase for an aspiring Omaha player. Omaha Hold'em: The Action Game is a good informational resource for all things Omaha, including the diverse number of variations on the game, but it is especially valuable on the topic of Pot-Limit Omaha. Considering the sheer lack of books that talk about Pot-Limit Omaha, this feature alone makes the book worth the price. Overall this is a good book for the beginner. Folks who have been playing the game for a while will get very little, if anything out of this book.

HIGH-LOW SPLIT POKER: SEVEN-CARD STUD AND OMAHA EIGHT-OR-BETTER FOR ADVANCED PLAYERS

First of all, the operative word for this offering from Ray Zee is "Advanced". This book is not for the beginner, not even slightly. If you are just starting your journey down the Omaha road, than this book is not for you. Now that we have gotten that little disclaimer out of the way, this book is actually two books in one. It is the combination of two other Ray Zee book: Winning Omaha/8 Poker and Seven-Card Stud for Advance Players. So players who make this purchase will have the opportunity learn as much about Seven-Card Stud as they will about Omaha.

Ray Zee writes from the perspective of the immensely tight player. This is probably because Ray Zee himself has a reputation for being a very tight player. Taking his advice will result in a style that will make you money in the long run, but it is a skull numbingly boring to play. Outside of propagating a dull style of play, Zee lays out a good series of strategic concepts that can help someone be successful at high-stakes High-Low Split games. The drawback though is that this book needs to be read very carefully. Because the style caters to the advanced player, it is written less comprehensively than other books. With that said this is the best book you can read if you plan to play mid- to high-stakes Omaha/8.

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