How can I learn how to play Omaha?

[littleheaven]

I want to learn how to play Omaha, but I don't see an option to play Omaha for play money in HP. :cry:

Can someone tell me how it is different from other games?

[Desertrex66]

in omaha your dealt four cards pre-flop. you have to use 2 and only 2 cards from your hands and 3 from the board just like hold'em. so if you have 5 5 5 K preflop in your hand, you can only you 2 fives as your best hand. Pairs are no good in this game. Flushes are popular.

There is a poker website just like the name of the biggest cable sports channel that plays omaha for play money.

[Al N Smithee]

go to options then preferences and make sure you are 'play money' enabled or else it won't show the play money tables in the scrolls.

[littleheaven]

go to options then preferences and make sure you are 'play money' enabled or else it won't show the play money tables in the scrolls.

I have the play money tables there. I looked for Omaha once and I couldn't find it. When I asked Support, I was told HP didn't have it available for play money :(

Thanks for trying Al :)

[littleheaven]

in omaha your dealt four cards pre-flop. you have to use 2 and only 2 cards from your hands and 3 from the board just like hold'em. so if you have 5 5 5 K preflop in your hand, you can only you 2 fives as your best hand. Pairs are no good in this game. Flushes are popular.



Does this get confusing with so many cards, or is it easy to catch on? The only game I have ever played is hold'em, and I'm pretty new to it ... but after playing the same thing so much, I thought it would be fun to try something different :waytogo:

When you said pairs are no good, do you mean they don't count in Omaha, or that they will always be beaten?

[BrendanEff]

I have the play money tables there. I looked for Omaha once and I couldn't find it. When I asked Support, I was told HP didn't have it available for play money :(

Thanks for trying Al :)
Yes, there are play money Omaha tables. Under table games, go to the top Omaha tab, then the bottom one. The play money tables are at the end. Same with Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 card stud, and draw. For every real money game, play money games also exist.

As for Support being wrong, I know not what to tell you.

[3vb0]

When you said pairs are no good, do you mean they don't count in Omaha, or that they will always be beaten?

Of course pairs count, but in Ohmaha a pair is almost never good enough to win a pot, since people are getting more cards. People want to at least have a hullhouse straight or flush or the chance to improve to one or more of these on the turn and river. These are the hands you need to win pots in Ohmaha. I've seen pairs win and two pair. But there was not much betting when they did. I don't play Ohmaha though, never for real money.


Go and play 10-20 limit play money Ohmaha and call your way to all the showdowns and see what people hit, and what you make.

[miss_wacky]

a nice man told me its like holdem but 1 rule make your hand out of five cards just 2 cards in your hand and 3 on the table thats how i learn it its just like holdem but more interesting it be the next hot game :happy: hope it helps you

[3vb0]

Be careful, having to use 2 cards from your haand every time is a big difference. For example you can never make a flush unless you have 2 suited cards, so no more 4 flushes on the board saaving you, and if there is three of a kind on the board you can;t make a boat unless you have a pair in your hole cards, even if one of your hole cards is paired with another board card, you still have to use 2 cards from your hand so you can't make a boat. And you can never use more than 2 from your hand either, which sucks on the times you get dealt 3 of a kind or a outside straight draw and so on.

[calo4]

Learning Omaha will help your Hold'em game AND there's plenty of people that play it like Hold'em.. lots of money to be made.