Quote Originally Posted by swiggidy
Q: Do you strive to win lots of small pots, or a couple big pots? Is this even a relevent question?
i was gonna save the question for my next update and give you a hand example, but i haven't had the time to play. I had an exam last wednesday and another one tomorrow.

As you suspected, it's not a relevant question. There's no point "striving" for anything, cos the cards and your opponents aren't just gonna let you do what you want.

At every decision, you need to ask yourself, "am I more interested in what's in the pot right now, or do I have my eye on the stacks? From a defensive angle, is my priority to protect the pot, or to protect my stack?" Pre-flop, you're usually always going to be going after the stacks.

If you raise and get a few calls and BB reraises with a pretty obvious AA and you call and get a 3rd caller, and the BB half pots it on a 2-flush board while have a set, then you just go for the pot in the middle. If the BB did not reraise and half pots the flop, the right play may be to min-raise him with your set in position, going after the stacks.

Lets say it was a 3-flush board and you have the fake flush (fake flush = A of the flush suit with no other card of the suit in your hand), you might pot it to go after the pot as a semi-bluff. But you wouldn't do it if it was just limped around to the BB, because you don't stand to gain very much. You'd wanna just call and see if you can hit a full house and get paid off, OR raise the turn with your fake flush when your oppo bets again because NOW there's something in the pot worth contesting.

Another spot is an obvious AA reraises pre flop and pots into your T987 on a T72 board, rainbow. If the stacks are deep, it's often correct to min-raise or even flat call. the only bad cards are the 2 aces and the 3 2s, and it's worth the risk. But if he's put half his stack in the pot already, by all means drop the hammer.

So it all depends on the circumstances, but it will be dictated by the stack sizes and pot sizes and position. But generally, Omaha is a game of stacks, and at every decision, I'm always thinking about how I can get the stacks - this is tempered where the risk of losing the current pot, outweighs the potential to gain from the stacks.