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Omaha
Learn how to play Omaha poker.
Omaha poker rules provided by
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Omaha is a variation of Hold 'em played with four hole cards instead of
two. At showdown, the best five-card hand using exactly two of your hole
cards and three cards from the board wins. Unlike Hold 'em, you may not use
more than three cards from the board. The betting and blinds are exactly
the same as in Hold 'em.
At the beginning of each hand, each player is dealt four hole cards. There is a
small blind, a big blind, and a round of betting.
In Pot Limit, a player can bet any amount from the minimum bet to the size of
the pot. In a $5/$10 pot-limit game, the small blind is $5 and the big blind is
$10. The first player can call the big blind (in this case, $10), or raise to any
amount up to the size of the pot. A raise must either equal or exceed the
previous bet or raise. In this case, a pot-sized raise would be $25 ($5 small
blind + $10 big blind + $10 call), meaning that, in total, player three can bet up
$35. Supposing player three makes a pot-sized raise, the total pot is now $50.
If the next player wants into the hand, they must call $35, which is the size of
player three's bet. If they want to raise the maximum, they would bet $120,
which equals the size of the pot ($50) plus a $70 raise ($35 call + $35 raise).
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card flop, just as in Hold 'em. There is a round of betting. In the above
example, the minimum bet would be $10 (the size of the big blind), and the
maximum bet would be the size of the pot.
All raises in all remaining rounds behave as described above.
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exactly two cards from their hand and three cards from the board.
This is important. Unlike Hold 'em, you cannot use just one card from your
hand, nor can you play the board.
For example:
Your hand: Ah Kc Qc Jc The board: 3h 4h 5h 6h 7h
You DO NOT have an ace-high nut flush, nor can you simply play the board
for a straight flush. Using two cards from your hand, your best hand is:
Ah Kc 7h 6h 5h
In other words, you should have folded.
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