Updated on 21 Feb 26 by
Barry carter
Poker Expert

How to play tricky PLO hands on the river

Medium strength hands are a nightmare to play on the river in Omaha, unless you have our basic river strategy.

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Type:

PLO

Coach:

Kyyberi

Status:

Silver

Duration

23 minutes

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We are pleased to announce our first PLO video of 2017 from Kyyberi and it is the return of a popular format. 

C.O.P.S. (which stands for Complete Omaha Playing Strategy) is back and this time we look at Marine Policing, ie. the river. 

One of the trickiest spots in PLO is playing medium strength hands on the river. In particular when you are out of position.

Today's lesson will show you the basic river model which you can use when you have a hand that seems too big to fold all the time, but is often beaten. 

As always this video is a mixture of theory, practical examples and analysis using the PokerJuice PLO tool (which you can try for as little as €1).

If you missed the previous C.O.P.S. videos our coach has done two others, one on stealing in PLO and the other on defending your blinds.

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Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.