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The fascinating point to remember when playing Omaha Hi-Lo is that the pot is slashed in half between the player with the best hand as well as the player with the weakest hand qualifying for the low hand. Omaha Hi-Lo is a “split pot” variant of the famous Omaha poker game, also referred to as Omaha 8 or Omaha Eight or Better. Super Bike (DK conversion) Super Bishi Bashi Championship (ver JAA, 2 Players) Super Bishi Bashi Championship (ver KAA, 3 Players) Super Bishi Bashi Championship (ver KAB, 3 Players) Super Blackjack Club (Barcrest) (MPU4) (set 1) Super Blackjack Club (Barcrest) (MPU4) (set 2) Super Blackjack Club (Barcrest) (MPU4) (set 3) Super Blackjack Club.

Community card poker refers to any game of poker that uses community cards (also called 'shared cards' or 'window cards'), which are cards dealt face up in the center of the table and shared by all players. In these games, each player is dealt privately an incomplete hand ('hole cards'), which are then combined with the community cards to make a complete hand. The set of community cards is called the 'board', and may be dealt in a simple line or arranged in a special pattern. Rules of each game determine how they may be combined with each player's private hand. The most popular community card game today is Texas hold 'em, originating sometime in the 1920s.

In home games, it is typical to use antes, while casinos typically use only blinds for these games. No limit and fixed limit games are most common, while spread limit and pot limit games are less common. The betting format and stakes can vary by region as well as time of year and volume (casinos often change games on weekends to accommodate increased customer demand). Later betting rounds often have a higher limit than earlier betting rounds. Each betting round begins with the player to the dealer's left (when blinds are used, the first round begins with the player after the big blind), so community card games are generally positional games.

Most community card games do not play well with lowball hand values, though some do play very well at high-low split, especially with ace-to-five low values, making it possible to win both halves of a pot. When played high-low split, there is generally a minimum qualifying hand for low (often 8-high) and no declaration is needed.

Community cards[edit]

Often, several community cards are dealt to the table, shared by all players, and subject to variant-specific rules about how many, and which of the cards may be used in each player's hand. Such a set of community cards is often called a 'board' or 'window' (though this latter term is inconsistent with its use in other card games). The board is usually dealt in a simple line, but some games may have elaborate layouts of community cards with special rules about what combinations can be used. For example, Texas hold 'em ends with each player holding two cards in his individual hand, and a board of five community cards in a simple line shared by everyone; each player then plays the best five-card hand in any combination. In Omaha hold 'em, game rules restrict players to using exactly three (no more and no fewer) of the five community cards, combined with exactly two of the four cards dealt to each player, to make a hand. In Tic-tac-toe, the board is a 3x3 array of nine cards, and players must use exactly three cards from a row, column, or diagonal of the board.

Texas hold 'em[edit]

This is the most popular community card game today. Each player is dealt two private 'hole' cards, after which there is a betting round. Then three community cards are dealt face up (in no particular order or pattern) to form the 'flop', followed by a second betting round. A fourth community card (the 'turn') is followed by a third betting round. And finally the fifth community card (the 'river') is followed by the final betting round. At showdown, each player plays the best five-card hand he can make using any five cards among the two in his hand and the five on the board. This is the key difference from Omaha hold 'em; the player may use both, one, or none of his hole cards in the final hand (though a hand that plays the board is guaranteed to be able to 'chop' the pot at best, since every other player still in the hand at showdown has access to those same five cards). Note that in current practice, before each community card round (the flop, the turn, and the river) first a card is 'burned' and placed in a discard pile. This was implemented to prevent card-cheaters from 'marking' cards and knowing what the card on the top of the dealer's deck was.

Double-board hold 'em[edit]

For double-board hold 'em, two separate five-card boards are dealt, and the high hand using each board takes half of the pot. For example, after the first betting round, three community cards are dealt to each of two separate boards; after the second round, another community card is dealt to each board; and before the final round, a fifth community card is dealt to each board (so there will be in total ten community cards, comprising two separate five-card hold 'em boards). It is possible for one player to have the best hand on both boards and thus 'scoop' the entire pot.

This variant of Texas hold 'em is sometimes called 'double-flop hold 'em', which is a bit of a misnomer, since there are not just two flops, but also two turns and two rivers.

Greek hold 'em[edit]

Greek hold 'em follows the same rules as Omaha, except that each player is only dealt two cards, same as in Texas hold 'em. In Greek hold 'em each player must use both hole cards along with 3 of the total available community cards to make the strongest five card hand, unlike Texas hold 'em where each player may play the best five card poker hand from any combination of the seven cards available to them.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Irish Poker[edit]

In Irish poker, each player is dealt four cards before the flop. After the betting round on the flop is completed each player must discard two cards. From this point the game is played exactly like Texas hold 'em with betting after the turn and river. At showdown, each player uses their remaining two cards along with the board to construct a hand.^[4]

No river hold 'em[edit]

Players are dealt three hole cards instead of two with three betting rounds: pre-flop, flop and turn. Players can use any number of hole cards to make the final hand.^[5]

Royal hold 'em[edit]

Royal hold 'em is a variation which is played using a stripped deck. In royal hold'em, the deuces through nines are stripped from the deck, thereby only leaving the tens through aces.^[6]^[7]

Royal hold 'em can only be played with a maximum of six players because there are only 20 cards in the deck. With 5 community cards, 3 burn cards, and 2 pocket cards per player, a six-player table will use all 20 cards in the deck.^[8] The strategy for royal hold 'em varies from other forms of poker, since the odds of certain hands are greatly increased.

Six-plus hold 'em[edit]

Six-plus hold 'em, also known as short-deck hold 'em, is a variation in which the cards valued 2 through 5 are removed from the deck.

Omaha hold 'em[edit]

Another hold 'em variant is Omaha hold 'em. Each player is dealt four cards to his private hand instead of two. The betting rounds and layout of community cards is identical to Texas hold 'em. At showdown, each player's hand is the best five-card hand he can make from exactly three of the five cards on the board, plus exactly two of his own cards.

The high-low split version of Omaha is called many different names, such as 'Omaha Eight or better', 'Omaha HiLo' or 'Omaha8'. Each player, using the above rules, makes a separate five-card high hand and five-card low hand, and the pot is split between the high and low (which may be the same player). To qualify for low, a player must be able to play an 8-7-6-5-4 or lower. A few casinos play with a 9-low qualifier instead, but this is rare. In high-low split games, aces count as both high and low.

The low hand is unavailable if the board cards do not include cards of at least three different ranks of 8 or lower (with aces counting as low). Paired cards lower than eight don't qualify.

When high hands only are used, the game is generally called 'Omaha high' to avoid ambiguity.

Omaha can be played fixed limit, pot limit (where it is often called 'PLO') or no limit. It is sometimes played where each player gets five cards instead of four. The same rules apply for showdown: each player must use two of his cards with three of the community cards.

Courchevel[edit]

A variant of Omaha hold 'em (5-Card Omaha) very popular in Europe, where instead of betting on the initial four cards and then flopping three community cards for the second round, the first community card is dealt before the first betting round, so that each player has five private cards and a single community card on his first round of betting. Then two more community cards are dealt to complete the Flop, and then play proceeds exactly as in Omaha.

Pineapple variations[edit]

Pineapple hold 'em exists halfway between Texas hold 'em and Omaha hold 'em and has been very popular in Australia and South America, specifically in Medellin, Colombia, where it was first introduced in a private poker room since 2010. Players are initially dealt three cards. Each player then discards one of the three cards (Pre-flop, Post-flop or at Showdown), and the game proceeds exactly as in Texas hold 'em.^[9] In some regional variations, five cards are dealt, and one is discarded after flop, turn, and river, otherwise proceeding as usual Texas hold 'em.

Pineapple[edit]

Players discard their third (unwanted or unneeded) card pre-flop, before the first betting round.

Crazy Pineapple[edit]

Players discard their third (unwanted or unneeded) card after the flop, before the fourth community card is dealt.

Tahoe (Lazy Pineapple)[edit]

Players discard after the final betting round or at showdown so they may not use all three of them to make a hand. Each player may use none, one, or two cards from his hand (never three cards) combined with those on the board, to make his final five-card hand, just like in Texas hold 'em.

In the variant known as 'Super hold 'em', players can keep all 3 private cards throughout the play and may use all three cards to determine high hand.

Manila[edit]

Manila is played with a stripped deck in which all cards below the rank of 7 are removed (leaving 32 cards). Each player is dealt two private cards, and a single community card is dealt face up, followed by the first betting round. Then a second community card is followed by a second betting round, a third community card and a third betting round, a fourth community card and a fourth betting round, and finally a fifth community card and fifth betting round. On showdown, unlike Texas hold 'em (and more like Omaha), each player makes the best hand possible from both of their own hole cards with exactly three of the five community cards.

Because of the stripped deck, a flush beats a full house. Also, an ace may not be played low for a straight (that is, the hand A-7-8-9-10 is not a straight in Manila). Manila and its variants are rarely played high-low split (in fact, very few stripped deck games are ever played low).

Common variations involve dealing three cards to each player, one of which can either be discarded at some point (like Pineapple, above), or else held to the end, but maintaining the requirement that players play exactly two of their own cards with exactly three of the board. The three-card variant is sometimes played with 6s being restored to the deck, making it 36 cards.

Pinatubo[edit]

Because Manila has five betting rounds, it does not play well at no limit or pot limit. This can be easily modified by eliminating the betting round between the second and third community cards. So, each player is dealt two private cards and a single community card is dealt to the board, followed by the first betting round. Then two community cards are dealt, followed by a second betting round. Then a fourth community card and third betting round, a fifth and final community card and fourth betting round, followed by a showdown as above.

The three-card variant can be played this way as well (as with Manila, the players must use exactly two of their three-hole cards with three of the board cards to make a hand).

References[edit]

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Introduction to Omaha Hi/Lo Poker

Omaha Hi/Lo (also known as Omaha 8-or-Better or Omaha 8) is a specific poker variant that enjoys enormous popularity in all parts of the world. It is one of the rare poker games where two players can each win a piece of the pot with two different hands — one for the low and one for the high, hence the name.

This game is similar to Texas Hold’em in a sense that each player receives a certain number of hole cards and combines them with five community cards that are dealt face up on the board. However, players are limited to using only two cards from their hand and three cards from the community board. This is a strict rule you can’t go around.

Due to its relatively complex rules, Omaha Hi/Lo is not that attractive to beginner players. Nevertheless, the game is played in many land-based casinos and online operators often include this poker variant on their websites.

While the rules are somewhat complicated, we will try to explain them to our readers to the best of our ability. Apart from the rules, we will talk about how to play a round of Omaha 8 from the beginning to end, and we will also share some examples. Read on!

Omaha Hi/Lo Poker Rules

Omaha Hi/Lo uses a 52-card deck and can be played with up to 10 people, although most casino tables allow up to six or eight players.

The cards are ranked in two ways. For high hands, the rankings are the same as in Texas Hold’em or Five Card Draw. Ace is always high and is followed by the King, Queen, Jack, and so forth. Flushes and straights count.

For low, the rules are similar to Razz, meaning that players must hope for the five-card combination of the lowest possible value, and Ace is always low in this situation. One difference is that the cards in low hands only count if their rank is eight or lower. This is why the game is also called Omaha 8. Straights and flushes don’t matter when it comes to low hands.

So the players in each round play to make two different combinations with the same cards — high and low. The player who has the best low hand at the showdown takes half of the pot, while the other half goes to the player who has the best high hand. If one player has the best hand for both high and low, then that player takes the entire pot, commonly known as the scoop.

The tricky part, however, is that each player can only use two of his/her own hole cards, and three cards from the community board.

How to Play Omaha Hi/Lo Poker

The start of an Omaha Hi/Lo poker round is indicated by the dealer button. The player sitting left of the button is known as the small blind, and he/she needs to chip in with a nominal amount before the game begins.

Left of the small blind is the big blind who usually needs to put twice as many chips in the middle. The size of the blinds depends on the table’s rules and the limit type of the game. We will explain this in more detail later.

The action starts with the player positioned left of the big blind and moves in a clockwise direction. The dealer gives four hole cards to each player and the game is ready to start.

Pre-Flop

Before the dealer puts any community cards on the table, players decide whether to bet or not based on the hole cards that were dealt to them. Just like in any other poker game, players in Omaha Hi/Lo can choose to call, bet, raise, check, or fold.

The first player to act can either call, raise, or fold since the blinds already indicate how many chips are needed for the remaining players to include themselves in the pot. The betting continues around the table until all players who haven’t folded bet an identical amount.

The Flop

After the initial betting round is over, the dealer will put three cards face up on the table. All active players can now use these cards in combination with the cards that were dealt to them. Another betting round begins.

The Turn

If more than one player remains after the flop, the dealer will put a fourth community card face up on the board. Players bet again.

The River

On the river, the dealer will put one final card face up next to other community cards. Yet another betting round begins. In all betting rounds, the first decision is made by the player sitting left of the button.

The Showdown

After all the cards have been dealt and the final betting round has been completed, the remaining players need to show their cards. The player who bet or raised last shows the cards first. In a scenario in which there were no bets on the river, the player left of the button is the first one to show his/her cards. The winning players are decided by the rules we explained earlier.

If players have identical hands, the pot is split in equal parts among them. If no hand qualifies for low, a player with the best high hand wins the whole stake.

Example:

All of this may seem a little confusing, especially to someone who has never played any poker games, let alone Omaha Hi/Lo. That’s why we decided to give you an example of how a typical Hi/Lo hand plays out.

Let’s say that two players remain after the river and that we have the following cards at the showdown:

Player 1: Ace of hearts, 2 of hearts, King of clubs, 4 of clubs.
Player 2: Ace of clubs, 3 of spades, 7 of clubs, Queen of clubs.
Community board: 4 of hearts, 3 of diamonds, King of spades, 6 of spades, 8 of hearts.

High: Player 1 wins because he/she has two pairs: Kings and 4s,as well the 8 kicker (the highest-value card not included in any combination).

Player 2 only has a pair of 3s alongside an Ace, a King, and the 8. Queen won’t count because the player can only use two hole cards and must use three community cards. Suits don’t matter because neither player has a flush.

Low: Player 1 wins again as his/her best combination is 6, 4, 3, 2, A.

The best combination Player 2 can make out of this hand is 7, 6, 4, 3, A. Remember, when counting low hands in poker, you always start from the highest card downwards. In this case, six beats a seven.

So in this scenario, Player 1 takes the entire pot (the scoop), since he/she has better hands for both high and low.

Omaha Hi/Lo Poker Variations

Omaha Hi/Lo games all follow the same rules except when it comes to betting. There are three recognized betting variations of this game — limit, pot limit, and no limit.

Limit Omaha Hi/Lo is the most common one; it suggests that betting amounts are predetermined. A specified amount can be wagered on the pre-flop and flop, but the amount doubles on the turn and river.

So let’s say that the game has a $5/$10 limit structure. This indicates that the highest bet you can make in the first betting round is $5, extending to $10 in the last two betting rounds. Players who are challenged with a bet can raise with the same amount, and the raises are capped at four.

For example, if one player bets $5, another player can raise to $10 during the same betting round. The first player can then re-raise to $15, and the final raise made by any of the players can be $20.

Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo is a bit rarer, but you can run into it if you play online. In this variation, the bets can only go up to the size of the pot, while the minimum bets are equal to the size of the big blind in that round.

When it comes to raises, a minimum raise is determined by the size of the previous raise or bet. Maximum raise, again, is the same as the size of the pot.

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No Limit Omaha Hi/Lo gives freedom to players to bet the entirety of their chip stack (all-in). Minimum raises at the start are suggested by the big blind, but as soon as someone bets or raises, the minimum raise for the next player is indicated by that previous bet.

Conclusion

Omaha Hi/Lo can be a very exciting poker game once you get the hang of it. The rules are not simple, but the game isn’t rocket science either. Watch a few Omaha 8 hands online to get familiar with all the different scenarios that can occur. However, it’s best if you try playing this game with a couple of your friends and learn along the way.

Mastering the game is difficult, but it can turn out to be quite profitable if you do manage to learn to play it well. Omaha Hi/Lo can be found in many online casinos, as well as in some larger brick-and-mortar casino rooms.

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