Don,t bet the POT with only a Low hand in Omaha h/l

I see this happen all the time.Even if you have the NUT Low you can only win at best 1/2 the Pot if you don,t have any High hand.You can try to bet the Max Pot Limit to get another player to fold if they have a weak high hand but normally they won,t fold so late in a hand.If there are 4 players still calling good size raises you can be assured another player has the Ace-2 or whatever the NUT Low is.So you will find yourself splitting the Low hand with one or more players.When you only get a Quarter of the Pot your usually losing chips unless there were many players in the pot.I would suggest just calling and not raising if you feel you can,t Bluff/Buy the Pot.

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Originally Posted by mondexxx

I see this happen all the time.Even if you have the NUT Low you can only win at best 1/2 the Pot if you don,t have any High hand.You can try to bet the Max Pot Limit to get another player to fold if they have a weak high hand but normally they won,t fold so late in a hand.If there are 4 players still calling good size raises you can be assured another player has the Ace-2 or whatever the NUT Low is.So you will find yourself splitting the Low hand with one or more players.When you only get a Quarter of the Pot your usually losing chips unless there were many players in the pot.I would suggest just calling and not raising if you feel you can,t Bluff/Buy the Pot.

unless ur low hand is actually a high hand too like the wheel, or 2-6 str8 3-7, 4-8 etc

Actually isn't really true in all scenarios...
Of course you can bet and finally split the low pot and lose chips/money, but I don't like use that as a rule in stone.
In the turn, if you already have your nuts low, then you can try to buy the pot against a weak high hand or against a draw hand.
In limit games, if there are three players in the hand (you and another two players) is usual see one of them beeing squeezed by a nuts low and a nuts or better high. The player squeezed always had a low hand but not nuts, or maybe just draws.

I agree with you, in limit tables isn't the best move bet your low hand against only one villain, but again isn't a rule in stone... if you have position and the villain check the river after a blank card you still can try to buy the whole pot and not just check behind.