After A-A-3-x and A-2-3-4 comes A-2-3-X. With A-2-3-X you will win a piece of the pot more than 40 percent of the time. Many top pros really want to have four wheel cards in a hand, even when that hand doesn’t contain both an ace and deuce, like A-3-4-5 or 2-3-4-5.

Here is my list of 08B hands (the first 10 on the list are “premium,” and the next eight I’ll call “strong”), in order from best playable hand to worst playable hand. Again, this is the list of the playable hands. Suited hands are better than unsuited hands.

This is my list of the most powerful playable hands in 08B. Hands like 0494949 are right on the edge of being playable (I’m playing them). I will almost always play two big pairs double-suited. But I’m not interested in hands like 0494943′ since the pairs aren’t high enough to win on their own merit. Moreover, when you do flop a set with a hand like this, your set will almost never be the highest available three of a kind on the board. Generally, when there is an eight or a nine on the board there will be over cards out there also. In Omaha, whenever there are over cards there is a good possibility of an overset, so you want to stay away from hands like this. But these drawbacks do not apply to A-A, K-K, or Q-Q.

Premium and Strong 08B Hands

Premium hands
1. A-A-2-3
2. A-A-2-x
3. A-A-3-x
4. A-2-3-4
5. A-2-3-X (wins a piece of the pot more than 40% of th e time)
6. A-2-K-K, A-2-Q-Q
7. A-3-4-5
8. A-A-4-5, A-A-x-x
9. A-2-Q-K, A-2-K-J and A-2-x-x
10. A-3-K-K

Strona hands
11. A-3-4-X
12. 2-3-4-5
13. J-Q-K-A
14. 10-J-Q-K
15.J-Q-K-K
16. 9-10-J-Q
17. 2-3-4-x
18. Any four cards between a ten and an ace

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