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How do you play Omaha H/L???
I accidently entered the wrong tournament and now i QUICKLY need a 5 min lesson on how to play this. I only know how to play Hold em is it anything like that ? I need someone to explain it to me like an idiot. In hold em you only get 2 cards but in Omaha you get i think 4. Can someone please explain it to me ?? Oh yeah and sorry i dont' know many poker terms. so explain it like you would to a child.
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- Omaha 8/b is the best game. You get 4 cards of which you must use two when making your best five card hand. If you break it down you get 6 starting hands in your 4 cards. You're probably used to playing Hold'em so I won't explain the high hand. Low is 5 cards that are 8 or lower. The Ace is the lowest but can also be used as the highest. A-2-3-4-5 is the best low hand but could also be a straight. 4-5-6-7-8 is the worst low hand but is also a straight so it could win you high but will rarely win the low. Just remember that there must be three low cards on the board for a low hand to qualify. There will always be a high hand...but just like Hold'em you're trying to make the best five card hand. So the low will be two out of your hand and three from the board. Low is counted from top down. So a hand like 7-5-3-2-A will lose to a hand like 7-4-3-2-A. Just get in and try it. A lot of people don't like it but it is a great game.
- It is a lot like hold em in the high part of the game, but you must use exactly two cards from your hand, and exactly 3 from the board. Now it can be any two from your hand to make the high hand, but it must be exactly 2. And in the same hand you are also drawing for a low as well. This is an 8 low or better. This means any low like 8-5-3-2-A. At the end of the hand they give half the pot to the high and half the pot to the low as well. In some hands there will be no low, and the high hand will take the whole pot in this case. This game is more of a drawing game more then anything, a wrap around draw is a stronger hand then having a pair in your hand since you have so many ways of making your hand. You also don't want to ever chase the low, since a lot of times you will be splitting the pot with other players who also have the low. You can even win the low and loss money, this is called getting quartered. So for example lets say you have A-2-K-J and you make the nut low on the turn, and you end up not making a high hand, so half the pot goes to the high hand, and the other half goes to the low. But you turn over your low only to see the 3rd player in the pot has the low as well, so you have lost money even though you have won a piece of the pot. What you want is to make a high hand, and a low, this give you the chance to take both the high pot and the low pot. Just don't chase the low and you'll do fine. Also hand values go way down in this game, making two pair is never going to be good most times, and even flushes and straights can be beat very easy since you have 4 cards in your hand that you can make your hand with.
