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Introduction to Omaha
Introduction to Omaha
The Rules
In Omaha Hold'em each player receives 4 hole cards and everyone shares 5 community cards, similar to Texas Hold'em. The catch is that you must use exactly 2 cards from your hand and 3 cards from the board to make your 5-card poker hand. In general the winning hands in Omaha are much better than the winning hands in Texas Hold 'em. In a game of more than 3 people usually a straight or better wins.
When you are first playing Omaha, you should make sure you are actually using 2 cards from your hand, and not 3 or 1. For example, if the board is K Q J 5 4, and you have A Q 4 4, your hand is only three-of-a-kind 4's. You do not have full house of 4's over queens. If the board is A K Q 10 9, then your J J 5 4 is not a straight, since you must use two of your cards.
Why play Omaha?
Omaha Hold'em is not as popular as Texas Hold'em but is played by plenty of fish. Also, a lot of good Texas Hold 'em players want to try out Omaha and are unfamiliar with the game but they may still play at high limits because they are good at Texas Hold 'em. These players generally play too loose.
Also, it is much more of a technical game because it is easy to see what the best hand is, since usually there is a flush or a straight on board and odds are that somebody has one. At a full table, you will often need the actual nut hand to take the pot down.
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omaha is a tuff for me but i like it realy like hi/lo omaha but a lot of donks going all in prefold is driving me back to holden peaceout
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1) Pot Limit Omaha $10,000 Guaranteed Tournament
When - Tuesdays at 8pm EST
Buy-in - $100+9
Feeders - Play in any of the following feeders to win your seat in the Main Event:
$10+1 daily feeders at 12:35am, 1:35am, 2:15am, 12:35pm, 2:35pm, 4:35pm: 6:35pm, 8:35pm and 10:35pm - all times EST. These feeders pay out seats in the upcoming weekly Main Event.
$10+1 Turbo - Tuesday at 5:35pm EST. This event guarantees to pay out 5 seats in the Main Event held later that evening. You can secure your seat in this event through $2 Turbo feeders running Mondays at 11:15pm EST and Tuesdays at 12:15am, 1:15am 12:15pm and 2:15pm EST.
2) Pot Limit Omaha High/Low $10,000 Guaranteed Tournament
When - Thursdays at 8pm EST
Buy-in - $100+9
Feeders � Play in any of the following feeders to win your seat in the Main Event:
$10+1 daily feeders at 1:00am, 2:00am, 12:00pm, 2:00pm, 4:00pm, 6:00pm, 8:00pm and 10:00pm � all times EST. These feeders pay out seats in the upcoming weekly Main Event.
$10+1 Turbo � Thursday at 5:00pm EST. This event guarantees to pay out 5 seats in the Main Event held later that evening. You can secure your seat in this event through $2 Turbo feeders running Wednesdays at 11:30pm ET and Thursdays at 12:30am, 1:30am 12:30pm and 2:30pm ET.
at Ultimate Bet. :mmad:
i may be in micro stakes nl or stud, but, need to work my way up to omaha 100 + 9 tourneys.
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- dermadman
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Do you know of anywhere that does Omaha freerolls? I think that would be a great way to introduce people to the game and then take more rake when they enter money tourneys
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The Merge network has freerolls for all the various games. This would be Carbon Poker, Reefer, Nordica, Wass, etc.
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Lol I shall download them all tomorrow :-D
- 9high
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They are all in the same network, you just need 1 of them to have access to those tournaments.
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Oh it's like skins right? So if I get Carbon for example and you guys are advertising a tourney on Reefer I could play it?
Btw these are o.t now so delete them by all means
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They are skins but you cannot play private tournaments on other sites. The other open tournaments are available on all the sites.
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Ok cool thanks (yeah better delete these posts now they're way off topic lol)
- 9high
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Poker Stars does most types of freerolls. If you win a weekly final seat you can wait a few weeks for your favorite game to maybe come up. It looks like they will both be NL Holdem this week.:mO_o:
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Sorry if this is covered elsewhere in the forum - I haven't been able to find it. The way I understand hi/lo, the player with strongest high hand wins half the pot and the player with the lowest hand of 8 and under wins the other half - with the best possible low being A,2,3,4,5.
If I have hole cards A,2,10,J and the flop comes 3,4,5, I have the best low hand. But what happens if the turn is 2 and the river A? I now have two pair. Does this invalidate my low hand or does the A,2,3,4,5 still stand up?
I've heard that if you pair low cards they can't count to a low hand.
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You would still have the nut low. In Omaha you have to use exactly 2 cards from your hand and exactly 3 cards from the board so you would use your A2 and then 345 from the board to make your low hand and also use it for a straight for high.
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OK. I'm finding hi/lo a more interesting game than holdem at the moment. The fact that you have two chances of winning means you can make something of more hands. And there seem to be fewer donks at the tables and more players who give the game some thought...
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Thanks so Much, for your info and time. I am slowly improving Omaha. It can be a stinker to get use too. MINI
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OMAHA! I thought it was super Holdem? LOL
A little prayer and a little luck still wont replace skill in this game.
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