Closest Starting Hands in Omaha Preflop
Hold’em is straightforward enough:
This is the closest I’ve found for Omaha:
It’s interesting that twodimes, DinoPoker, and CardPlayer odds calculators results are close but off enough to bat an eyelash at.
I stumbled across it running sims on a hand from Reuben’s book. Other topic that came up doing this: Hands like A965ds fair very poorly in wild games with 4+ players seeing the flop after 3+ bets.
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This is the matchup from Reuben’s book.
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Which I then whittled down to:
Of note, in the book a maniac in the bb was driving the action and the btn KK53 was trying to isolate. All the money went in preflop. £11, 700 pot, 25-25 blinds.
Board A87r 22, maniac “Ferrari” tossed his hand in facedown and bid adieu. I’ll post the blow by blow when I get home later.
Odds after flop:
Here is the actual hand from the book:
March 2003, Victoria Casino in London, £1000 buy in, £25-25 bilnds.
UTG limp
+1 limp
+2 limp
Hero (Ah9d6h5d) limp
V LAG (Kc 3c Kd 5h) limp
BTN (As Ts Qh Jh) limp
SB check
BB (psycho maniac whale, known as “Ferrari”) raises 200
UTG call
+1 fold
+2 call
Hero call
V raise to 1400
BTN call
SB fold
BB says “Well, I may as well gamble!”, raises to 3400 all in
UTG (AdTd9c6s) call
+2 fold (said afterward he had KKxx)
Hero fold
V call
BTN call
Board Ac8s7d 2c 2h
Ferrari mucks, leaves
Note: This hand was played after the manuscript for the book was completed, but V insisted Hero add it in.
I found a few hth flop matchups that were around 52.5-47.5 but going to take a smarter person than me to get closer than that.
Finding a 50/50 turn scenario was pretty easy using the hold’em one in the OP as a starting point, if anyone would like to try it.
My solution:
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