If you are new to Omaha High Low, you probably have a lot of questions as to how to play the game and how to play it well. Omaha High Low, or Omaha 8 Or Better, is becoming an increasingly popular game to play, especially for players looking for other games to play besides Texas Hold Em.
Omaha 8 is a relatively new game that was first introduced to Las Vegas casinos in the early 1980′s and wasn’t played in the World Series of Poker until 1990. It still doesn’t have the notoriety that Texas Hold Em has, but many top professionals can often be found playing in Omaha 8 tournaments and cash games. Some of the notable winners of Omaha High Low bracelets are Mike Matusow, Scotty Nguyen, and Chris Ferguson. more
November 25, 2009 – 12:47 am
If you started playing poker within the last 10 years, chances are you probably started out by playing nothing but Texas Hold’Em. The overwhelming popularity of that game has led to numerous poker publications and Internet web sites that provide information and speed up the learning curve for the new player.
This makes the games available much harder to win at because you will constantly be facing people who are making the correct decisions and not making mistakes. Winning at poker is all about getting people to make mistakes and if people are playing well, it can be an awfully hard grind to turn a profit. more
November 20, 2009 – 7:32 am
Most people believe that because Omaha High Low bears the name Omaha in it that it’s history starts in the city of Omaha, Nebraska. However, this is not where Omaha Eight Or Better started. Robert Turner, then a casino executive in Las Vegas, showed Bill Boyd the game and it was then offered at the Golden Nugget Casino going by the name Nugget Hold Em. The year was 1982.
Omaha High Low doesn’t have much history behind it because it is a new game that did not emerge until late in the 20th century. It is a fast paced action game and it didn’t take long after it’s introduction at the Golden Nugget for it to catch on in other casinos and for Omaha 8 poker tournaments to start taking place. more
November 19, 2009 – 3:56 pm
In the game of Omaha High Low, there are normally two winners every hand. The player with the best five card hand wins the high hand and half of the pot. The player with the lowest five card hand wins the low hand and the other half of the pot.
If there is no qualifying low hand, the player with the high hand wins the entire pot. For a hand to qualify for a low hand, all five cards must be eight or lower.
This is one of the reasons that Omaha High Low is also known as Omaha 8 Or Better.
In most typical Omaha High Low games, there are two forced bets for each hand called the small blind and big blind. more
November 11, 2009 – 1:40 am
If you are going to learn Omaha High Low, chances are you will end up playing in an Omaha 8 tournament eventually.
There are some key differences to playing in an Omaha 8 cash game and tournament. In a tournament, you can not reach for your wallet and buy more chips – once you are out, you’re out. Here are a few tips on how to play a Omaha High Low tournament.
1) In most tournaments you will start with a significant amount of chips in relation to the blinds. A good strategy to employ early in tournaments is to see as many flops as possible… more
November 3, 2009 – 9:33 am
Omaha Poker
Rio WSOP will be bringing you a series of tips for the Omaha beginner, although the intermediate player will glean a few good ones from this as well. You know, Omaha?
The game that looks and plays like Holdem, only with four cards? Where you have to use exactly two cards, and only two cards, from your hand and three from the flop?
Omaha is the game where you can stand to make a lot of money in online poker now. A lot of players seem to have NLHE figured out, but Omaha appears to still have plenty of fish wading in the waters. Why? Well, it’s a complicated game, much more so than Holdem. more
October 24, 2009 – 8:35 am
Omaha poker
Here’s the one thing you need to know about making big laydowns in Omaha.
There is no such thing as a big laydown in Omaha.
Folding bottom set would be a big laydown in Holdem. Folding a small flush would be a big laydown in Holdem. Folding the second nut straight, A-A preflop and a full house would be big laydowns in Holdem.
Be prepared to make all those laydowns in Omaha, maybe all in the same session, or else you’ll be a losing player.
Tip #2 has the basic math of how many cards are out against you by the time the river hits in a full-ring Omaha game; 41 of the 52 cards out. That’s all you need to know to remind yourself to fold your Queen-high flush when you’re facing a lot of heat from your opponent. more
October 23, 2009 – 8:34 am
While you’re digging into this Omaha tip, you might come up with an obvious question. It’s a question a lot of Omaha players ask when they’re learning the game. “You really want to draw only to the nuts? Isn’t that a bit nitty?”
The answer to that is done with some relatively easy math. In Holdem everyone starts with two cards. In Omaha everyone starts with four.
In a full ring game of nine players in Holdem, 18 cards would be out before the flop hits the board. Now think about this: In Omaha, that means 36 cards are out. more
October 19, 2009 – 11:09 am
Slowplaying a big hand can be an effective tool when you’re playing No-Limit Holdem. But it’s almost completely worthless in Pot-Limit Omaha.
Why? Well, just look at the name of the game. “No Limit” means you can bet all of your chips at any time. As obvious as that sounds, that’s a key to slowplaying.
It does matter how much you’re betting on the flop and the turn, but ultimately, if you want to get your chips in the middle, you can by the river. more
October 12, 2009 – 9:10 am
There’s probably one clue above all others that will tell you whether a Holdem player is sitting at your table.
It’s the way he plays A-A.
Does he go bonkers with it? Does he push all in after the flop? If so, he’s probably a Holdem player and an Omaha novice.
One of the bigger adjustments Holdem players have to make when they move over to Omaha is the way they play a pair of Aces in their hand.
See, that’s the nasty thing about Omaha Poker; you’ve got those other two cards in your hand, and it’s those other cards that determine just how far you should push with your A-A.
There’s great A-A hands, and there are good A-A hands, and there are A-A hands that, yes, you should probably fold before the flop if you’re facing serious pressure. more
