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How is Omaha played?
Each player is dealt 4 pocket cards, face down. After the first betting round, 3 community cards are dealt on the board, the flop. Then comes another round of betting and another community card, the turn. After the 3rd betting round comes the final community card, the river, followed by the last round of betting. Like in every variant, the community cards are available to every player. In every betting round players have the following possibilities: Check, Call, Bet, Raise or Fold.
When a fullring table is fully occupied, or in other words, in a ten-player game, a total of 40 cards from the deck are dealt. Since there are also five community cards that are, and a card deck contains 52 cards, there are only 7 unused cards at the end of a hand.
Because the game is played with 4 cards rather than 2, there are a lot more possible combinations than in Texas Hold'em. Naturally, this means that one can have many more outs as well. While the biggest number of possible outs in hold'em is 21 (straight flush draw with overcards) you can easily have draws with 29 or more outs in Omaha.
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Posted by xxxbchxxx: Oh cant waite for the omaha tips.... I'm attempting to get into HORSE ........Ha Ha Ha I cant even play Texas Holden that well.....lol
In HORSE it is fixed limit omaha hi/lo. Most played single variant is PLO. Totally different game.
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Maybe he should play 8-game on Pokerstars. In that game there is PLO and limit omaha HiLO. Very cool game, i have only problems with 5 card draw. So i just fold almost everytime
Doesn't matter much what they are because nobody really looks at them anyway.
Next, they put three cards on the board. It doesn't matter what they are because nobody really pays any attention to the flop either.
Then one more card for the turn and another one for the river. Same betting scenario as before.
Doesn't really matter much what they are, except, for a few of the players that may have "cheated" and looked at their hole cards. These players may now fold if they have absolutely no outs. (Mostly bad sports.)
Now, at the showdown, everybody turns over their cards and helps the dealer figure out who has the best hand. You MUST play two cards out of your hand so this usually takes a while and the winning hand is usually found out after a little bit of searching by all of the players and a partially confused dealer.
The dealer now pushes the pot to the wrong player and everybody yells at him and he smiles glibly and says, "Oh yeah, sorry" and then sends it in the right direction.
Then, after all of that excitement dies down, everybody lets out a collective sigh of relief and gets ready to wind up and do it all over again. ……Fun game.
Omaha is good game but it is harder then no limit holdem. i love both games but i usually play no limit holdem and rarely play omaha. i have not start in omaha tournament but i would try it in october. good luck at tables.
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PLO is too damn sick... I love it and I hate it at the same time. Just a little something: Never ever ever ever ever slow play in PLO unless you flop a Royal Fush...
PL Omaha has even more action tham hold'em. You'll probably see your bankroll yo-yo a lot because the 4 hole cards make more outs . A general rule of thumb is that omaha is about straights and flushes. Sets or lower are often losers.
