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| Poker Etiquette and Rules of the Road | |
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| Act In Turn | |
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| Keep Your Cards In Plain Sight | |
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| Discussing Hands In Play | |
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| Turn Your Hand Face Up At The Showdown | |
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| Table Stakes | |
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| Toking | |
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| Playing In a Casino | |
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| Five Good Reasons to Play Omaha in a Casino | |
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| Avoid Making A String-Raise | |
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| Raising Made Simple | |
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| Don't Splash the Pot | |
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| protect Your Hand | |
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| Time Our | |
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| Decks And Dealing | |
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| Shuffling And Dealing | |
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| How To Get In A Game | |
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| Buying Chips | |
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| What Will Your Opponents Be Like? | |
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| Advanced Strategy | |
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| Outs 'n' Odds | |
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| A Little Probability, Please | |
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| Flush With Success | |
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| Straightening Things Out | |
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| Getting Counterfeited | |
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| Drawn and Quartered | |
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| Looking For Two Perfect Cards | |
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| Basic Arithmetic For Omaha Players | |
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| Getting Down to the Nitty-Gritty | |
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| Starting Hand Selection | |
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| Recommended Starting Hands | |
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| $ or Fold | |
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| Playing the Flop | |
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| When Three Low Cards Flop | |
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| Flopping Flush Draws | |
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| Flopping A Flush | |
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| Flopping Straight Draws | |
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| Straight draws and low cards | |
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| Straight draws and suited cards | |
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| Straight draws when the flop is paired | |
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| Flopping Straights | |
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| Flopping a straight with low cards on the board | |
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| Flopping the nut straight with flush cards on the board | |
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| Flopping middle straights | |
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| High Hand Scoops | |
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| Playing Middle Cards | |
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| Case Expert's Advice | |
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| Playing Aces | |
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| Pocket Aces: Omaha/8's Most Overrated Hand | |
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| Some Cases of Aces | |
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| Aces Up, Bankroll Down? | |
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| The Big-Gun Set You May Regret | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Playing the Blinds | |
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| Playing the Small Blind | |
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| Calling a Raise in the Small Blind | |
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| When to Raise in the Small Blind | |
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| Playing the Big Blind | |
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| Playing When They Kill The Pot | |
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| Kill Pots | |
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| Order of play | |
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| How to Play the Kill | |
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| Raising with the Kill | |
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| When to Raise a Kill | |
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| Raising | |
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| Raising Before the Flop | |
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| Raising to limit the field | |
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| Raising on the Flop | |
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| Raising on the Turn | |
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| Raising on the River | |
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| Raising from the Blind | |
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| Raising With the Nut Low Before the River | |
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| A Word Of Warning About Bluffing In Low-Limit Games | |
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| Value Bet Bluff | |
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| Playing Pairs on the Flop | |
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| Some Bluffing Opportunities | |
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| When You Bet Into a Paired Board and You're Raised | |
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| When Your Opponent Raises Before the Flop and Then Bets Into a Low Board | |
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| Different Betting Limits Make For Different Style Games | |
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| Low-Limit Omaha/8-$l-$2; $2-$4; $4-$8 | |
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| Bigger Than Baby Steps-$6-$12; $9-$18; $10-$20 | |
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| Middle-Limit Omaha/8-$10-$20; $15-$30; $20-$40 | |
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| Big Games-$30-$60 and $40-$80 | |
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| High-Limit Games-$50-$100 And Higher | |
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| Big Fish In Small Ponds-Killing Time In Smaller Games | |
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| Chip Management | |
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| Runner-Runner: Dream Street or Nightmare Alley | |
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| A Bet Saved Equals A Bet Earned | |
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| Bet Saved | |
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| Bets Earned and Saved on the Flop | |
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| Bets Earned and Saved on the Turn | |
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| Bets Earned and Saved on the River | |
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| Playing Styles | |
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| The Rock | |
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| The Will Rogers Player | |
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| The Maniac | |
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| The Steamer | |
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| The Tricky Player | |
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| The Aggressive Player | |
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| The Quality Starting Hand Player (QSHP) | |
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| The Very Good Aggressive Player (VGAP) | |
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| The Evaluator | |
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| The Crafty Player | |
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| Forging Your Own Winning Style | |
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| Zhapter 19 | |
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| Hands Change Value | |
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| Draws and pairs | |
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| Timing is everything | |
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| The Importance of Position | |
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| Be Aggressive or Sit it Out | |
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| The Danger of Danglers | |
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| Five- or Six-Handed Play | |
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| Playing from the Back: Seats 5 and 6 | |
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| Playing in the Middle Seats: Seats 3 and 4 | |
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| Playing from the Blinds: Seats 1 and 2 | |
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| Three-and Four-Handed Play | |
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| Heads-Up Play | |
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| Value Betting in Shorthanded Play | |
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| The Value of Experience | |
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| Chapter 20: High Stakes Omaha/8 | |
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| Raising and Warp Speed | |
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| Full Table Omaha/8 | |
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| How Raising Changes Starting Hand Requirements | |
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| Other Poker Skills | |
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| Pot-Limit Omaha/8 | |
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| Focus | |
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| Playing a Starting Hand Containing Two Aces | |
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| Starting Hand Guidelines | |
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| The Joys of Multi-Way Draws | |
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| Avoid Draws Where You Can Only Win Half the Pot-But Might Lose It All | |
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| How to Play Sets in Pot-Limit Omaha/8 | |
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| Flushed with Success | |
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| Flush-Draw Failures | |
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| Por-Limit Omaha/8 Game Texture | |
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| Calls and Raises | |
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| Situational Betting | |
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| Elements to Remember | |
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| Some Thoughts on Position | |
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| There's Value in Value Betting | |
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| Changing Gears | |
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| Applying Your New Skills | |
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| Common Omaha/8 Errors and Traps | |
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| Praying for runner-runner | |
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| Drawing for a high hand when three low cards flop | |
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| Failure to value bet: | |
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| Draws and traps to avoid | |
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| Some Miscellaneous Tips | |
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| Money Management and Record Keeping | |
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| What's Money Management All About? | |
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| Does Quitting While You're Ahead Make Any Sense at All? | |
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| Should You Set Stop-Loss Limits? | |
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| All You Need to Know About Money Management | |
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| Game Selection and Money Management | |
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| Summaty | |
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| Keeping Records | |
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| What Kind of Records Should I Keep? | |
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| How Does the Standard Deviation Work? | |
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| How to Calculate the Standard Deviation | |
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| Using the Standard Deviation to Analyze Your Poker Results | |
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| Life On the Edge: What's My Risk Tolerance? | |
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| How Should You Balance Your Win Rate Against the Standard Deviation? | |
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| Keeping Up With Record Keeping | |
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| What's Online Poker All About? | |
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| But It Isn't Real Poker, Is It? | |
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| Internet Play-Money and Micro-Limit Games | |
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| How Play-Money and Micro-Limit Games Help You Improve | |
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| The Best Internet Play-Money Sites: Internet Poker Casinos | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Keep Notes | |
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| Participating in the Future of Poker on Forums | |
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| Virtual Poker for Real Money-Internet Cash Games | |
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| But is it Legal? | |
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| Our Advice to You | |
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| Tournaments | |
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| The Early Stages | |
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| Tire Middle Stages | |
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| The Late Stages | |
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| The Final Table | |
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| Play Your Best-Always | |
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| Playing Omaha Is Too Much Fun | |
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| We Call Too Much | |
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| We Tend to Play to the Level of Our Competition | |
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| Don't Play When You're Psychologically Weakened | |
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| Monitor Your Own Play for Weaknesses; Then Act On Them | |
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| Never Go On Tilt; Never Play Less Than My Best | |
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| Make Myself a Narrow Target | |
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| Model Successful Behavior and Play | |
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| Fighting Through Emotions | |
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| Back To Basics | |
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| Ten Keys To Success | |
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| Be Aware of Your Own Strengths and Weaknesses | |
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| You're Responsible | |
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| Think About the Game | |
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| Have a Plan | |
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| Set Deadlines | |
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| Be Realistic | |
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| Expect Difficulties | |
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| Build On Small Accomplishments | |
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| Persist | |
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| Have Fun | |
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| Bad Game, Good Game | |
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| Loose Games, Lots of Chips | |
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| Tight Games, Few Chips | |
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| Happy Players, Gambling Players | |
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| Angry Players | |
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| Maniacs | |
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| Calling Stations | |
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| How Big A Bankroll Do You Need? | |
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| Afterword | |
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| About the Publisher | |
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| About the Authors | |