Recently, Michigan PocketFives.com member Rollover2k blasted through the field of the $215 Pot Limit Omaha Cubed event (#11) during the Ultimate Bet Online Championship (UBOC). He earned $33,000 for his efforts, outlasting the 305-player field that turned out. This isn’t his first taste of victory in a Pot Limit Omaha event, however, as Rollover2k won a $55 Pot Limit Omaha contest on PokerStars in August for $5,400. What’s his secret to taking down Omaha tournaments? PocketFives.com traveled to wintry Michigan to find out.

Before we dive into the interview, here’s how the final table shook out in Event #11 of UBOC 4:
1. ROLLOVER2K - $33,550 (Rollover2k)
2. CITROEN_VISA - $20,331
3. ACECALZONE - $14,091
4. POCKETSET444 - $10,401
5. TREADINDANK - $8,723 (Treadindank)
6. KOSTENKIS - $7,046
7. BENBA LAMB - $5,704 (Benba)
8. DORSAL FIN 7 - $4,362 (Dorsal Fin)
9. AMANDAW111 - $3,020 (amandaw111)

PocketFives.com: Congratulations on your UBOC win. What can you tell us about the $215 Pot Limit Omaha Cubed event?

Rollover2k: It was pretty standard business until around 20 players left, I held in a few big pots, flopped well, and went into the final table with a nice lead. It was super easy to pick up chips at that point because, besides mine, the chips were spread evenly enough that no one was so low that they were forced in. Since people don't really understand 3bet ranges in Pot Limit Omaha tournament play yet, there were just a ton of uncontested pots to be had.

PocketFives.com: You told us that you’re primarily a cash game player. What tournaments do you play?

Rollover2k: I have a couple of Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) final tables and wins in the $200 Saturdays, but my normal game is Six-Max $25/50 Pot Limit Omaha. I'm just pretty complacent with not putting in volume like I should, so I play tournaments that are a little more fun in order to get myself stuck at the computer and grinding.

PocketFives.com: How did you get started playing Omaha?

Rollover2k: I blame the $100 freeroll on Play4Fun Poker that got me started. At the time, shorting a bunch of Pot Limit Omaha tables was infinitely more fun than stressing out at $2/$4 No Limit Hold’em and it was a trickier game. Anyone who was around back then knows that the bread and butter strategy for No Limit Hold’em was a pretty A-B-C, vanilla-type game plan as compared to now, so Hold'em just wasn't much fun. Pot Limit Omaha, on the other hand, wasn't really figured out and still isn't. No one talked about it, so it was kind of a mystery.

PocketFives.com: You mentioned that some Pot Limit Omaha players struggle in 3betting. What other areas are they not comfortable in?

Rollover2k: We just don't know much about the game - myself included - because the simple introduction of so many more combinations given four cards in every situation makes the whole thing a more complex system to draw any concrete conclusions from. Pot Limit Omaha math is ridiculous, so everything is muddy right now, right down to hand selection. Probably the biggest flaw that most players have is not seeing past the flop, which is probably a product of Hold'em. The texture of the board changes drastically and frequently in Pot Limit Omaha, so knowing what you can do on the turn and river is imperative to your flop decisions. I’m not sure this is the case in No Limit Hold’em.

PocketFives.com: Have you tried playing Stud or any other games?

Rollover2k: I probably play Stud or anything else about as often as Dick Cheney goes rock climbing. I have to be pretty bored to fire up Eight-Game or Badugi or anything else. I'm the first to admit that poker isn't high on the list of things I like to do. I dig the money and love the freedom, so I'm sticking with it, but when it’s grind time, I'm sticking to wherever I can bank the most money.