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Omaha Poker (Omaha High)

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Omaha Poker, like Texas Hold'em is a community card game. Community cards, or board cards, are cards which are dealt face up in the middle of the table and which can be used by all players in conjunction with their hole cards to make a five card poker hand.

In a game of Omaha Poker, each player is dealt four hole cards (cards for the player's eyes only) and, whereas in a game of Hold'em a player may use any combination of five cards from their hole cards and the board cards to make a hand, in Omaha a player must use precisely two cards from their hand and three cards from the board.

The Game
At the start of play, before any cards have been dealt, the blinds are posted. The blinds are bets made by the two players to the left of the dealer. The player to the immediate left of the dealer posts the small blind, the player to the left of the small blind posts the big blind. The blinds are posted before any cards are dealt to help get the betting underway.

The First Round
Once the blinds have been posted, the players are dealt their hole cards and a round of betting follows.

The first player to act is the player to the immediate left of the big blind. At this stage in the game, because of the blinds, each player has three options: FOLD, CALL or RAISE.
To fold is to throw in your cards and take no further action in the hand.
To call is to match the previous bet in order to remain in the game.
To raise is to make a bet in excess of the previous bet by at least the table minimum. *
Each player in turn (in a clockwise direction) must make a decision and to stay in the game must continue to bet until all remaining players have staked an equal amount (this holds true for each of the four rounds of betting).

Variations of Omaha Poker:

Limit Omaha (Stakes and Betting)
In a game of Limit Omaha the stakes are capped which means to say that any bet or raise is at a predetermined level. i.e. In a $2/$4 game of Limit Omaha any bet or raise is limited to $2 for the first two rounds and limited to $4 in the third and fourth rounds. In any given round, the number of raises allowed is also capped, usually at three, so that the maximum bet per player per round is four times the original stake.
Blinds in Limit Omaha
The big blind is determined by the lower staking level of the table, the small blind being half the value of the big blind. i.e. on a $2/$4 table the big blind is $2, the small blind $1.
Pot Limit Omaha (Stakes and Betting)
Pot Limit Omaha differs from Limit Omaha in as much as the level of betting and raising is capped only by the amount of money already in the pot. The pot consists of all monies staked in previous rounds (if any) plus any money already staked in the current round including, if a player wishes to make a raise, the value of the call that that player would have to make first.
No Limit Omaha (Stakes and Betting)
No Limit Omaha is exactly the same game as Pot Limit Omaha except that, as the name suggests, there is no limit to the staking either in making an initial bet or in making a raise.
Blinds in No Limit Omaha
The blinds in No Limit Omaha are formulated in the same manner as in Pot Limit Omaha.

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