Poker News: Bet Royal Poker Introduces Omaha and Ohama Hi-Lo

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Bet Royal Poker Introduces Omaha and Ohama Hi-Lo

Bet Royal Poker is now even better! We have introduced Omaha and Omaha Hi - Lo for your playing enjoyment, apologies to any of you who may have been inconvenienced during the upgrade.

Omaha follows the same structure as Texas Hold'em, the only difference being that each player is dealt four hole cards instead of two. There are still the same five community cards and players have to make the best five card poker hand from the nine cards available to them. However, when making your final hand you must use an exact combination of two hole cards and three community cards. This differs from Texas Hold'em where you could use either one or both (or even none) of your hole cards.

This is where many new Omaha players slip up. They see four spades on the board (the community cards are often referred to as the board) and they have the Ace of spades in their hand and they think they have the nut flush, forgetting that you must use two hole cards therefore needing two spades in your hand to make a flush.

Omaha is played either Pot Limit or Limit, it is not played No Limit as having four hole cards gives so many extra possibilities and permutations that the game would be too wild if it were played No Limit. Click here to Play!

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