Omaha Books

This book (and book one) is for beginners only. If you already know how to read the board (the five community cards on the table), you will not get much use out of these two books. There is some useful information on starting hands. The rest of the books emphasizes playing for the nutz or folding. No other strategy or game play is taught. At the low price, you almost get what you pay for.

i found this book disappointing...it is not what i expected...very little real information...large print, few pages, no statistics on hand value...what is there is good advice...just not enough to improve a good player's game...very pricey for what you get...invest in one of the other authors if you take your poker seriously...

I've played a LOT of hold'em and omaha poker, and read most of the literature on these games, and this books simply does not stack up. It's advice is simplistic, and well-known to anyone who has played the game at all seriously. Not that there is anything wrong to a lot of the advice, it simply will not give you any edge. Far better are books by Tom McEvoy, Bob Ciaffione, and Ray Zee, which take a little more effort to master, but give some real insight. This wouldn't be a good book for anyone other than a beginner.

In my opinion as a long time player of Omaha, High/Low Split, Mr. Nelson's advice is top notch. He says to play solid cards in good position and you will win. Straight forward poker is what I call it. My records indicate that Mr. Nelson is absolutely correct. His advice on playing Omaha without an ace in your hand is foolishness. He cautions us to play carefully on the low side and raise when you have the high side nuts. Always remember that the low side is only about numbers while the high side has flushes, full houses and quads. Getting a quarter or a third of the pot on the low side does not make for a healthy bank roll. In short, Mr. Nelson, thanks for helping me play better Omaha!

I am dismayed by the previous reviewer's comments regarding this meticulously researched work. No, this book is not "about" EMDR, and does not pretend to be. Instead, it describes interventions that Dr. Omaha developed by combining attachment theory, emotion regulation theory, and the bilateral stimulation used in EMDR. I find this work much richer and wide-reaching than standard EMDR, and I have been using Dr. Omaha's techniques with the majority of my clients. I have been using EMDR for 4 years, and like many practitioners, have found abreaction to be a common problem with many clients, particularly those with chronic trauma experiences. Using the emotion regulation interventions described in this book has resulted in tremendous improvements in clients with affect dysregulation, and has allowed me to do more effective traditional EMDR with clients. Dr. Omaha's work represents one of the most powerful and useful extensions of EMDR available.

I am surprised to read the negative remarks about this book. Dr. Omaha's book is a comprehensive work that takes one through developmental theory, affect theory and some EMDR theory. He then demonstrates a practical way to combine it all for the most effective therapy. I think it is a must read for any therapist. I also highly recommend either taking a training with Dr. Omaha or setting one up in your community. Marissa

This book is not about EMDR. Apparently the author has invented his own form of therapy and is using EMDR in the title to sell the book. Not only that, he is inaccurate in his descriptions of EMDR when he mentions it.

His suggested procedures are not tested, and his credentials appear to be having given a couple of workshops. Readers should proceed with caution.

I can find no verification of the author's credentials, and no information on his professional or academic achievements. Very dubious work!

"Thoughts of Chairman Buffett" is modeled after Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book" - an analogy that makes no sense whatsoever. Its contents are primarily short quotations from Warren Buffett, with a few pages of biography.

I read the material hoping to get some sense of Buffett's investment strategy. Little of that was provided, however. Nonetheless, Buffett's sayings, even out of any context, provide somewhat interesting material, demonstrated in the following.

If you're smart, you don't need debt; if you're not, it's poisonous. Good businesses are the ones that in some way are reasonably sheltered from competition. The key in life is figuring out who to be the bat boy for. You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you; you're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right. All I want is one good idea every year. It looks impressive if it comes out of a computer, but it's frequently nonsense. It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price. The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. The fewer stocks you have, the more time you can spend being expert on them. My favorite holding period is forever.

I've read numerous books about Buffett. What i really like about this book is it's brevity.
The author has assembled Warren's most poignant, pithy and brilliant quotes in one short , sharp book.
I learnt more about Buffett's philosophies from the this little gem than from any other book on the subject.
Frankly, it's a pity most other busineess books aren't this succinct.An outstanding read.

Hmm. For around 8 beans, you get Warren's quotes. Should you get it? Only if you hang onto every one of his words. Overall, the book was short and all right. Some excellent quotes to take note though.

A fifteen minute read of various quotations by Warren Buffett. It ends with a brief summary of his technique. Build a focussed portfolio of shares in businesses you understand. These businesses are growing. Buy when they are selling at attractive prices only. Hold them while they continue growing. Allow compounding and earnings reinvestment to work for you.

This is a great little book that encapsulates the life and investment career of the most widely written about investor in history, Warren Buffett. It is a collection of Warren's wit, wisdom, humor and charm spanning his very successful career as Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. The book is a collection of quotations covering everything from hiring people to his final goal: "What I want people to say when they pass my casket is, Boy was he old!" This little book is inspiring, funny and gives insights into what made Warren so successful. The author, Siimon Reynold, ends the book with a basic interpretation of Buffett's rules of investing. I call this book the "Vest-Pocket" Warren Buffett. It is an easy read that you'll refer to over and over.

Written by expert Omaha high-low player Bill Boston, Omaha High-Low is a no-nonsense guide for serious gamblers determined to win and make money. Based on the premise that Omaha is driven by hand value more than any other poker game, Omaha High-Low spells out the mathematical chances every one of the 5,278 Omaha high-low hands has for winning the high end or the low end of the pot. Half text and hints, half reference charts, Omaha High-Low is the definitive resource for learning how to play to win with the odds in their favor. Highly recommended for all Omaha High-Low fans.

The book pictured on this page has been replaced by a new version published by Cardoza in 2006.

Although the title and front cover of the book don't make it clear, this is not a guide on how to play Omaha High-Low. This is a book about which hands to play and which to fold during the first round of betting. If you want an introduction to Omaha High-Low, both Tenner and Cappelletti's books are excellent, and of course cover which hands to play. You can also find good free advice at a website called o8poker.

Knowing in advance the contents of this book, why was I stupid enough to buy it? Well, it's based on computer simulations, and there's a lot that could be done by that method to refine the basic list of playable hands. There's limit Omaha vs. pot limit vs. no limit. There's ring game play vs. tournaments. There's full table vs. short-handed vs. head to head. There's your position at the table. There's the playing style of your opponents. There's your stack size in a tournament. What if there are raisers or callers ahead of you? What if you're in the small blind and need to put in only half a bet?

If you're contemplating writing a book addressing these issues, relax. The author of this book hasn't done so.

The methodology used by the author is. to put it kindly, simple-minded. He used a commercial poker-playing program to simulate the play of fifty million deals at a full-table ring game populated by tight aggressive players. Then he computed how well each particular hand fared. Then he ranked them all in order. These are put in a table that takes up about half the book. Since, as the author points out, about 75% of hands dealt are unplayable, this is quite a waste of space, unless you're interested in whether some unplayable hand ranks 4536th or 4537th out of 5278. Incidentally, since the program has its own built-in standards of which hands are playable, basically all other hands were played only under unfavorable cirumstances from the blinds (with some exceptions to be mentioned later). The hands are listed in order of the cards they contain. It would have been more useful to list them in order of their rating so that you could see which hands were marginal and use that to make close decisions based on other criteria.

The figure of 5278 hands is the author's, based on taking every possible combination of four cards by rank, then dividing them into the categories "unsuited," "single-suited," or "double-suited." "Single-suited" includes all hands with two cards of the same suit, except hands with two cards of one suit and two of another. This category is quite insufficient, as it makes such a big difference whether or not one of the suited cards is an ace that the category should be divided on that basis.

The book wastes another ten pages on two separate and useless tables of two hundred randomly dealt groups of community cards. There is also a mysterious short table that purports to show that AA23 double-suited, considered the best hand, will make more money for a player who is cautious before the flop than one who isn't. Since everybody would play this hand under any circumstances, any difference in results would be due to how you play after the flop.

Rather surprisingly, the book's list of playable hands includes some that, in general, no competent player would open, such as QQ43 double-suited. This baffled me until I realized that the way the poker-playing program was used, these hands would only be played in very favorable situations, namely in late position in unopened pots, "attacking the blinds," as they say. Of course this isn't mentioned in the book.

In the beginning of the book the author states that he gave every hand a grade, based on AA23 double-suited having a grade of 100, to be found in the last row of the charts. This doesn't seem particularly helpful, since he doesn't explain how this grade was arrived at, and since in general you're going to play hands with positive expected value and fold hands with negative expected value. Since in fact the grades don't appear in the charts, the point is moot.

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Adwers book appears to be composed from myriad news clippings and reads like a conversation with a grandparent -- interesting if you have lots of patience to find the real story buried in trivia.

Robert Adwers book, Rudder, Stick and Throttle: Research and Reminiscences on Flying in Nebraska, doesn't just cover the history of aviation in Nebraska or his own personal experiences. He examines the first flights of both aeroplanes and balloons throughout the United States and occasionally even ventures to Europe to report developments there. He takes time to discuss such events as the first flights by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk and the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by Charles Lindbergh. He also covers less well-known incidents, including the first plane flown by a Nebraskan (built by the Baysdorfer brothers in Omaha and flown by Charles Baysdorfer in Wahoo, Nebraska) and the Omaha Air Races in the 1930s. Mixed in with the historical research are Adwer's personal experiences as a young man growing up in Omaha during these exciting times and, later, as a pilot himself. Adwers witnessed many of the events he describes in his book, and those he didn't have first-hand experience with, he meticulously researched. This includes the research and development behind the Baysdorfer plane and Charles Baysdorfer's time as a barnstormer with the International Aviators. Adwers details the conflicts that arose as the industry of aviation slowly got of the ground and took flight on its own!

I bought this book expecting it to be a detailed book about the Omaha Beach landings. Rather, the book was really a tour book designed for people planning on visiting Omaha Beach. There were some very good modern day pictures and the walking tours outlined in the book seemed like they would be very memorable, but this book is not for someone looking for a researched, historical book. The information in the book was general and it was not footnoted or referenced in anyway.

For someone looking for a serious and well researched book on the Omaha Beach landings, this book is not for you. For someone planning a trip to Omaha Beach or just looking for background information, this is a book for you.

Warning: This is the vol. 3 of the OLD edition of Omaha, so if you're buying the new edition, you shouldn't buy this book, you should buy the vol 3. of the NEW edition.

buy Hwang, Slotboom or Farha's book instead, you will get a lot more out of them

I purchased it. Tried to get into it. Thought the advice was not well organized and it related to low level play, and frankly, I have read much better books. Sorry to the author - but he did get full retail price from me and I got no benefit from him.

This book was key in my decision to emphasize Omaha Hi-Lo over Hold-em. Since reading it I have had a final table at the Bicycle Casino Mini Series of Poker and a few tournament wins at PokerStars, Absolute and True Poker. What was impressive to me was how he supported his opening hand recommendations with computer simulation, as I had used simulation tools in Scrabble and learned much from them. There may be a weakness in the area of postflop play, but the opening hand section is a big winner. The recommendations on how to play all-high hands were very good too.

Mike cappelletti's book has got to be one of the worst books I've ever read. First of all, he is a very loose player. Play A3 anything? Raise with the 3rd best hand to knock out a 2nd? With a limits most people are playing at people typically will stay in with the 2nd best hand. He also tends to repeat himself quite a bit. How many times do we have to hear a loose game is when 5 or more people see the flop? On top of this he is extremely disorganized. For example he is talking about flop types before preflop play. He also uses too many random charts. Finally his hand examples are terrible. Yes, it's great to know that Hartford is the insurance capital, what the rules are in Tampa, and where you have played, but it's not relevant to o/8. No one cares where you were for each hand example Mike. The bottom line is I cannot recommend this book to anybody without a case of Advil, because your head will be in severe pain after you read this book.Good luck finding advice in this scattered mess. Someone has got to make a good low limit o8 book real soon, because if this is the best out there I'll figure everything out by myself the hard way.

This book isnt worth its small price. The book is disorganized to say the least, making it difficult to read. Furthermore, there is little real usable information, especially for those who are new to Omaha 8. Whereas a good author would write a solid chapter about starting hands (for example), the equivalent in this book is 7-8 articles on a subject, apparently culled from Card Player Magazine. This leaves a lot of questions unanswered and topics unaddressed. Though some of the individual articles arent bad, its no way to write a book. Based on what I have heard and the other books I have read by 2+2 publishing, I wish I had bought the Ray Zee book instead. Bottom line: This book might be ok for someone who has played a little bit of omaha and wants to learn a little more, especially playing recreationally, but if youre serious about learning omaha 8 or taking your game to the next level, look elsehwere.

This is a very thin book, with little substantive information. If you know the rules of omaha and know how to read the board, you are a step ahead of this book. The only substantive information is regarding good starting hands, but it is mostly common sense. For the small price, you will get your money's worth only if you are a true beginner to omaha.

Respectfully, this book and its sequal are both hardly worth the paper they're printed on. As others have said, Mr. Nelson barely skims the surface of this rather complex game. He describes a couple of hands he's played (and won - big surprise!) and expects the reader to generalize correct Omaha/8 play from these few examples. There is no systematic discussion of starting hands nor play after the flop, turn, and river, and the reader is left knowing only that Mr. Nelson likes to hear himself talk. Better to use your eight dollars to raise when you have the button than buy this book.

this book is definitely for the beginner...i've played other games seriously and found that i had already figured out nearly everything this book mentions...the new information i found would fill less than half a page...omaha is a complex game and mr. nelson barely skims it's twists and turns...the book is very short, 71 pages, and does little with statistical analysis(which i expected in volume) if you've played seriously, or want to, i'd suggest skipping this one...

There are very few modern books on the topic of Omaha Hi-Low Split and I was elated to find one written by Andy Nelson. His books on Hold'em were pretty good--short, but good. This book was useless. I can honestly say that as a novice Omaha Hi-Low player, I did not take away even one piece of information from this book that I wasn't aware of from simply observing and playing a few hands. A much better Omaha book is "Winner's Guide to OMAHA POKER" by Ken Warren. It's written well and offers fantastic advice for the beginning and even intermediate player. I would not recommend Andy Nelson's book to anyone.

let me save you the 8.95 it cost me to buy this book. If you know the rules of Omaha, all the book says is the following. bet the nuts, call the nut draw, throw everything else away. you typically need a full house to win high, and can sometimes win with a flush. forget about any low hand worse than 6-high and be careful even with that as you often split the low half.

there's simply not enough knowledge in this book to sit even 3-6 at a casino.

Next to Texas Hold'em, Omaha is acknowledged as the second most popular tournament poker game -- and often rivals Texas Hold'em in popularity among European players. A complex, high-action 'flop' game, Omaha Poker is one of the premier tournaments in the annual World Series of Poker. Now Omaha poker expert Ken Warren draws upon his many years of experience to write the "Winner's Guide To Omaha Poker: The Smart Player's Guide To Winning At Omaha". Warren deftly covers the rules and basics of play; provides more than one hundred illustrative sample hands, has compiled expert tables of Omaha odds, features forty hand selection guidelines and tips, includes forty-one tournament play tips, even offers applicable information on internet play! Of special note are Warren's comments on fundamental and money-making concepts for those seeking to become professional Omaha Poker players. There is even a useful glossary that will prove invaluable to the novice Omaha player. Ken Warren's "Winner's Guide To Omaha Poker" is a fundamental and strongly recommended addition to personal and community library Gaming & Card Playing reference collections.

Although the title is a bit misleading, this book is a good intro to Omaha. I would have given it 4 stars, but I feel the title is a bit misplaced... Better would something like 'Introduction to Omaha'.

That being said, I think that the author does a good job of trying to hammer home the differences between Hold'em (where most players are coming from) and Omaha. He does a great job of providing dozens of examples of reading the board in relation to hand - a topic that can be very confusing, especially in the beginning.

What this book lacks however, is more meat on post flop play. Also, some firmer numbers on how Omaha can be more profitable than Hold'em. He talks about how the pots are bigger, but also how high/low and low splits can eat into your win rate. Additionally, he makes some strong aurguments for why 'better' players will not have as much of an edge in Omaha, but doesn't really get into how to be a 'winner' beyond the topic of starting hand selection.

All and all, I think that this book used in conjunction with one of the other books out there that are lacking some of this fundamentals would deffinately lead to a solid start in Omaha.

Man, having been pleasantly surprised by the amount of useful material that was in Ken Warren's first two Hold'em books, I was extremely surprised by how little he packed into this book about Omaha. I think it was ridiculous having so many pages devoted to reading both hi and lo hands. The examples took up so much space, no wonder he was able to get so many pages out of so little material. He had very little advice on what specific hands to select, how to play pre-flop, how to play post-flop, not to mention very little on play at the turn and after the river. I really enjoyed his second book on hold'em, but I want to warn anyone that is thinking about getting this book not to expect very much out of it. I really wish he had used the same format as his previous book, with assignments at the end of each chapter to apply what you have learned, but he did not.

This book assumes you are coming from hold'em and does a good job of showing the difference between hold'em and Omaha hi-lo. It shows you winning high and low Omaha hands by showing you different card combinations. It does a good job of showing you how to figure out the outs you have, and generally what to look for in starting hands without being specific. What it doesn't cover is the play of the hand. The book uses big font and has a lot of card graphics that take up space. The two chapters at the end are filler on tournament play in general that applies to both Omaha and hold'em, and internet poker. Then there is a glossary, and several pages of advertisement for other books.

OK book for reading hands but not really much after that.

It has a large number of examples of hands and a very good section on comparing Omaha Hi'Lo (LO8) to Hold'm. this is not really a BOOK but more a group of pages with lists.

It also covers Pot Limit and sort of confuses the two at times.