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Pot Limit Omaha is such a skilled game and one of the elements that makes it so great is that the nuts frequently change street by street. Realizing how important this is to the game and learning to adapt in the right way is so important if you want to taste success in this particularly high variance form of poker.

Omaha is a game where hands are frequently out there. Having four cards in your hand makes the combination of possible hands much higher than it does in Hold'em and you have to be worried about someone holding the nuts at pretty much every stage of the hand in Omaha. Having said that, often people do not have hands in Omaha, and having the ability to pick when to call and when to fold against certain player types is the key to winning Omaha.

As a result of how polarized players' hands frequently are in Omaha, some players have simply become 'nut hunters'. This refers to those players who never bet anything apart from big hands. These people are obviously very easy to play with once you identify them as you can simply bluff them constantly and back off whenever they bet.

On the flip side, you have players who seem to be firing at every pot. These players have big swings, but in the end they bluff far too much in a game where the nuts is often there, with the result that they eventually go broke.

Highly skilled Omaha players occupy the middle area. These players can bluff in certain key spots but overall play a solid, well rounded game. They usually choose their moments to bluff with a great deal of caution, and one of the most important considerations for them is how the board has changed.

If their opponent has been very aggressive on a dryish flop against them, they will know that big changes to the board by the river (such as flush draws coming, or numerous straight possibilities) provide ample opportunity for big river bets.

In Omaha, you can force other players off quite big hands as long as you perfect both your timing and situation. Not only are the nuts out there often in Omaha, but they change street by street, and being able to consider the ways in which this affects your own bluffing habits (and how other players may be bluffing you) is fundamental to solid play in this game.