Could someone please explain Omaha to me

[Royalhand]

Hello all
Could someone please explain Omaha to me?Surely.
What you do is get four cards. 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 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.

[stinkee]

Yep, Royal- that pretty much sums it up! ROFL
That's pretty much how I play - call everything because I'm sure I'll make a good hand! Good thing poker.com tells me what my hand is! And good thing I've only played freerolls. LOL

[harry lime]

ha ha, that one should go in the official rule book - very nice post !

[ethansdad03]

The problem I run into playing PL "pot limit" omaha is that until the later rounds you have to many "chasers" calling the bets to attempt to catch. Also, I learned quickly that 2 pairs or better is the minimum "almost always" to win a hand. Omaha is a nice change of pace from NL but I stick to NLH when I enter a tournament.

[tking888]

and if your not playing h/l omaha make sure 1 of your pairs is a high pair. i always try to go for the flush myself.

[claudiu198125]

omaha is the warst game of poker i ever seen and 7 card stud

[jetnine]

In omaha you get 4 cards but you are only allowed to use 2 BUT you MUST use 2. 5 cards make up a hand, 2 from your hole cards and the other 3 from the community cards.

[sjokkis]

Nice sum ups lol.


I myself LOVE omaha, gives me a nice and fun break from regular holdem, stud and triple draw 2-7

[MiniPlato]

Hahaha!

It's very hard for me to decide pre-flop what hand to play and what not... being dealt three K's for example makes me think very long whether I shall call or not... To me, the game only starts when the flop is at the table but by that time everyone has gone all in already on a play money table

[ozyri]

this article kind of adds some examples to your summing up http://www.pokernews.com/strategy/omaha-great-river.htm and the conclusions are a good tip for the future