The purpose of this article is to introduce our readers to Omaha and give basic overview of game’s rules and features.

Omaha rules:

Omaha is somewhat similar to Texas Holdem: each player is dealt with 4 hole cards and everyone share 5 community cards dealt face up on the board. However, just as in Texas Holdem, a player can use 2 pocket cards and 3 community cards to form a winning hand, which generally makes winning hands in Omaha much better than the winning hands in Texas Holdem poker.

When trying Omaha for the first time, make sure that you aren’t using more or less than 2 out of 4 hole cards and 3 out of 5 community cards. Please see the “Omaha Rules” article for more information.

Why play Omaha?

Although Omaha is not as popular as Texas Holdem, it can appear to be a thrilling and useful experience due to similarity of all poker games. Many skilled Texas Holdem players are willing to try out Omaha thinking that they can successfully play at high limits just because they’re good at Texas Holdem. You must understand that advanced Texas Holdem skills are pretty good, but not quite sufficient for winning at Omaha. Skilled Texas Holdem players are usually loose Omaha players.

While Texas Holdem is generally a game of psychology and skill, Omaha tends to be more of a technical game, since it’s quite easy to see what the best hand is. For example there’s usually a straight or a flush on the table and odds are that one of your opponents holds one. However, this doesn’t mean that Omaha is more complex than Texas Holdem, on the contrary – Omaha’s much easier, because it’s more a game of straightforward probabilities involving less psychology than Texas Holdem poker.

Conclusion:

Omaha can be a thrilling challenge for each Texas Holdem player. Fortunately, you don’t need to change poker room in order to play Omaha, because it is available in all top online poker rooms recommended by our site.