In my last article, I discussed some raising situations/guidelines when playing Pot Limit Omaha. Today, I will expand on that column.

Whether you raise from up front partly depends on the structure of the game. For example, let’s say that you’re playing $50-$100 blinds and each player has $100,000 in front of him. If you raise $200 from up front, an opponent can call $200 and raise $500. That isn’t too terrible: you have $700 in the pot and you have $100,000, or if you’re playing $50,000 cap, you still have $49,500 to go. But in our game where we play $1,000-$2,000 blinds with a cap of $75,000, suppose you raise up front and make it $7,000 to go. Now, a guy with aces calls your $7,000 and comes over the top for $20,000. From a ratio point of view, with a cap of $75,000, you only have $50,000 left, so you’re only getting two-to-one on your money. And when the odds are two-to one, no matter what your hand is, the odds are against you. This is one way in which having a cap changes the game.