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First off a little disclaimer about Omaha poker: Many online poker players will decide to click on the little “Omaha” tab of their online poker room of choice when they are beginning to get a little bored of playing Hold’em all the time. What these players fail to remember is that most of these players playing Omaha poker have been doing so for a while, and thrive on people like you. Omaha is an entirely different monster than Texas Hold’em. If you decide you want to play Omaha seriously you should consult online articles and books the same way you did when you wanted your Hold’em game to get better. If you are getting bored from playing Hold’em then maybe what is right for you is to take a break, for a day or two, and comeback with a renewed vigor for the game. If you are serious about learning the rules to Omaha, then here is a little beginners course for you to feast on. The rules of Omaha Poker: The betting rules are the same in both Texas Hold’em and Omaha. There is betting after the cards are dealt, after the flop, after the turn, and after the river. Finally, just like Texas Hold’em, there is a showdown and the best hand wins. The obvious major difference between the two games is that in Omaha you are dealt four pocket cards. Of these four cards you HAVE TO use two of them to make your best five card hand. This is one of the harder concepts for players to learn when trying Omaha for the first time. In Texas Hold’em you can use a combination of any five cards, which includes just the community cards, to make your best hand. The strategies vary drastically between the two games, and in time we hope to bring you some strategies when it comes to Omaha poker. Rules to Omaha hi/lo: The rules between Omaha and Omaha hi/lo don’t vary that greatly. In Omaha hi/lo both the high hand and the low hand wins. The high hand can be defined as the types of hands you would play if you were just playing regular Omaha. The low hand is a little harder to explain. The low hand is a collection of five cards all lower than 8. Ace is considered the lowest card, so the best hand for a low hand would be A,2,3,4,5. That hand makes you eligible for both the low hand and the high hand, low hand because you can’t get lower than a five, and high hand because it’s a straight, all though, there are still high hands that can beat you, such as flushes, full houses and quads. Many hands in this type of poker are split between two or more players because of the hi/lo rule. This opens up a lot more different aspects that some consider more exciting than Texas Hold’em. The strategies to be successful in hi/lo can even be considered tougher to learn because of all the different said aspects of the game. This was just a quick introduction to the rules of these types of games. There are unlimited articles and strategies available for Omaha poker, and soon many of them will be appearing on PokerPosted.com. |