Omaha High /Low is a game where bluff and semi-bluff are almost not possible – actually, in most of the cases they are impossible. But in Omaha Hi/Lo you can get info about your opponent hands if you take into consideration the positions. Based on the potential of the hands, we can divide them into three categories: highb potential, low potential and mixed (high and low) potential hands.

In early position everything seems to be absolutely different and you can beat the position disadvantage only with very strong starting hand. This is why in order to understand how important is the position in Omaha Hi/Lo, you have to understand first what is the very nature of this game. So, what is the point? In short, the point is to win the high and the low pot together. At first, this seems to be very easy to achieve. But the real donors to a good player ...

In any community card poker game, the position of the player is changing clockwise and has to be taken into serious consideration. For Texas hold’em, this is an absolute truth but for Omaha, especially for Omaha Hi/Lo there are different, even contradictory opinions. But how important is the position in Omaha Hi/Lo actually? It is strange but there is no one opinion on this matter among the poker players. Some say that in Omaha the position is not that important as it is in Texas hold’em. Others ...

Betting begins the third player to the left of the dealer. Each player is allowed to fold, call, raise or check. This part of the game is called pre-flop (the first betting round). After all the bets are placed, the flop is dealt. That’s how the three community cards are called. The flop is dealt face up and the players are allowed to use it in order to make combinations. After that there is another betting round.  After the betting round, another community card is dealt face ...

One of the variations of Omaha is Omaha Hi/Lo (known also as Omaha eight or better) where the pot is split between the highest and the lowest combination of cards. The game is played also with 52 cards. The Ace can be used as a highest and as a lowest card as well. One of the rules in the game is that low hands cannot have a card higher than 8. Another important thing to know is that straights and flushes do not disqualify low hands.  In ...