Here we look at some advanced Omaha poker strategy to further develop your game and enhance the level of play and your Omaha poker playing skill set. One great way for getting better at calling hands is to practice. Get yourself a deck of cards. Deal to your hand 4 …
Read More »Common Omaha Terms and Meanings
Below is a list of some common Omaha terms that other players will throw around without hesitation. If you want to be respected at the table, you better know what they are saying and know how to throw a few words of your own in. Most of these terms are …
Read More »The Differences Between Texas Holdem and Omaha Poker
By now, even the most novice of card players have certainly heard of Texas Hold Em but do you know the differences between Texas Holdem and Omaha Poker. Whether they’ve seen it on ESPN, or Bravo, or the Game Show Network, or the Travel Channel, etc, most people have a …
Read More »The Best Omaha Hi-Lo Hands
Previously we discussed the best poker hands for Omaha. The general theme was that each 2 card pair should be useful, and there are 6 such pairings of 2 cards from our 4 total cards. Now with adding in the challenge of making a qualifying low hand, that does complicate …
Read More »How to Play Omaha Hi-Lo and Hi-Lo Strategy
Omaha Hi-Lo is a fun variant to the regular Omaha poker game. In Omaha Hi-Lo, the “high” hand is what we are normally used to, a 5 card poker hand, with 2 cards taken from individually dealt cards and 3 cards taken from the shared cards. The “low” hand, on …
Read More »Ideal Omaha Poker Hands
Following on from our Omaha Poker Strategy guide to the best Omaha Poker hands, we’ll look at the ideal hands you can get pre-flop. Picking the best hand in Texas Holdem is easy. Since you are only dealt 2 cards, the best hand is clearly being dealt 2 aces before …
Read More »Presenting The Basic Concepts of Omaha High / Low
The objective in Omaha-High Low is to scoop the entire pot, by either winning without showdown, showing down the best high hand when no low is possible or showing down the best low and high hand to win both sides of the pot when it is. Obviously, winning the whole …
Read More »Omaha Poker Hands
The possible hands in Omaha are very much similar to every variety of poker. The difference in Omaha is that these 5 card hands must be created using exactly 2 cards out of the 4 cards dealt to the player and exactly 3 cards of the 5 that are shared …
Read More »Perfecting Your Omaha Poker Game
Perhaps the hardest thing to do in Omaha poker is quickly rank how good your hand is compared to the best possible hand. You need to do this quickly, often within a few seconds, otherwise you give away some details about your hand that you might otherwise want to keep …
Read More »Perfecting Your Omaha Hi-Lo Poker Hand
Just as with the previous article, dealing with perfecting your Omaha Poker game here we do some practice and analysis of finding your best Omaha Hi-Lo Poker Hand as well as finding the nuts hand. This time though, we consider not only the high hands, but the low hands as …
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