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Omaha Hi-Lo Rules

The game Omaha Hi-Lo is a community card game that is easy to learn and a lot of fun to play. Each and every player is dealt four cards face down so they can only see them, and then there are five community cards dealt for all players to use so that they can make their hands better. The object of this game is to make the best possible five card high hand and best five card low hand using two hole cards and three board cards.

When you are trying to make your two hands you are allowed to use different hole cards in your low hand and your high hands as long as you use your two hole cards and three board cards. There person who has the best high hand wins half the pot, and the best low hand wins the other half of the pot. If there is no qualifying low hand then the player with the best high hand wins the whole pot.

To get a qualifying low hand you have to have five cards that are all valued at eight or lower, and the ace counts as the lowest. The lowest possible qualifying hand is A2345, and the highest is 87654. Okay to start off there are blinds in this game just like in Texas Hold’em, these are forced bets and there are always two of them. There is a small blind which has to be half of the minimum bet and the big blind which has to bet the full amount of the minimum bet before the game can even start. The person to the left of the dealer has to make the small blind and the person to the left of that person has to make the big blind. These two bets counts to the players first round bet, and these bets are considered live which means that these players can raise the pot at any time even if nobody else has.

Now on to the betting rounds, in Omaha Hi-Lo there are four rounds of betting, in the first two betting rounds all bets must be equal to the size of the low limit bet, in the last two rounds all bets must be equal to the high limit bet. To make this easier to understand, if you are betting in the first two rounds all of the bets would be in increments of 3 dollars and the second two rounds would all be in increments of 6 dollars if you were playing 3-6 Omaha Hi-Lo. So if you read this and are very interested in playing this game then you will have more knowledge about the game than most people who go into playing this game. There are some people that think that this game is just to confusing to play but if you read and pay attention to the rules you will know that you can take this game and possibly win a lot of money in the process.