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How you play before the flop very often determines if you will spend the rest of the hand looking like Mohammed Ali or Pee Wee Herman. There are a number of very good starting hands that are self-evident, and the biggest challenge is to control the grin that creeps across your face when they appear in your hand. There are also a number of very bad starting hands that make the decision to fold your cards and chat up the cocktail waitress a fairly easy one. Unfortunately, the decision is not always obvious.

In Omaha, how a player starts is a pretty good indicator of whether or not they will be pulling the pot towards their stack of chips at the end of the game. To start strong, a player should only play the best hole cards before the flop. What are good starting cards in Omaha Hi/Lo though?

Sometimes counting works and sometimes counting doesnt work. Counting calories always works when trying to lose those love handles, but, as the clich? goes, counting your chickens before they manage to free themselves from the egg is a completely different, and less predictable, matter.