You are playing in a typical four card high Omaha game, where the betting limits are one unit before and after the flop, and two units on the last two betting rounds, for example, “five-ten” (dollars) or “ten-twenty”. Typical house rules impose a three raise limit on any given round of betting. Your four hand cards include the ace and another heart. (more…)

Good poker players try to avoid “fishing in”, that is, calling (”chasing”) with inferior cards. Calling is often perceived as reluctantly fishing along, wasting money, contributing to a bettor who is driving a winning hand. Some offensive purists subscribe to the theory that calling is unsound, and that if a hand is good enough to call, it should be good enough to raise. (more…)