Omaha Hi Lo

When you play Omaha, the rule gives the right the pot to be split if there are some low hands. Low hand is a hand that has 5 unpaired cards. But the cards have to have a value which is 8 or lower than 8. We count an Ace as 1 and flushes and straights don't reflect the low hand. If you have a hand of Ace, 2, 3, 4 and 5 you are a lucky man because it is the greatest hand. It is called Bicycle. It is possible to have the both hands-the high one, and the low one. Imagine that you have a hand of diamond Ace, 2, 3, 5 and 6. You have the latter hand and a hand with a diamond flush simultaneously. You can use different cards from your hand to make the low one. And when you owe both-the low and the high hands, then we have "scooping the pot”. This means that the player gets the whole pot. The position of the Blinds and Dealer Button depends on the person behind the dealer button. The dealer button moves into a clockwise direction. And it moves after each hand. Dealer acts last but not in the first round. The player situated left to the dealer has to put the small blind into the pot. The one next to him left to the latter puts the big blind into the pot. We usually have the big blind equal to the minimum bet. And the usual limit of Omaha is twice as big as the small blind. For a $2/$4 game of Omaha HI/Lo the small bet would be $1 and the big one-$2. The dealer gives each player 4 face-down cards. Only two cards of these can be used when you form a high hand. These four cards are your helper for forming good hands considering the variation that Omaha HI/Lo provides. When you have the four hands, the player situated on the left of the big blind player has to choose whether to call or to raise the big blind. Otherwise the player must be fold. The game keeps going with raising or calling in turn. The big and the small players are "live”. Therefore they can also fold, bet or rise in the initial round of betting when the action gets around them. The betting action is finished and after this we add the 3 chips to the pot .3 of the cards are put in the centre of the table faced-up by the dealer. This is called Flop. These cards are the community cards which aim to help the players to form a high, respectively a low hand. You can use only 2 of your cards and 3 of the community cards for forming the best possible hand for you. After that another betting round comes .When the bet is finished for the Floop an additional card is being faced-up again in the centre of the table by the dealer. This is called the Turn. And this card becomes a community card. The bets double on the turn. If we have a $2/$4 game, the bets started $2 should be raised to $2 increments. After reaching the turn, the base bets are $4 bets and must be raised in $4 increments. The final community card is called the River. The final betting round starts after this card is faced-up in the table's middle .Whet the betting is concluded on the River, there is a showdown. The player that made...