Omaha

Each player is dealt four cards, face down (hole cards). A round of betting commences where the minimum bet always have to be the equivalence of the Big Blind. If the player chooses to fold he does no longer participate in that hand and can not win the pot. Omaha Hi is usually played with pot limit.

The choices you have in each round is:

Check: You can only check if you have put the equivalent amount of the latest bet in the pot and you act after the others. Usually this situation occurs when you have posted the Big Blind. If nobody bets in the second round of betting (after the flop) you also have the option to check.

Fold: You throw your cards away and thereby signal that you no longer wish to play for the pot.

Bet/Raise: You put more money in to the pot and the other players have to put the same amount in the pot to continue playing the hand. A raise is if you or another player put more money in the pot than the player who made the last bet.

All right, these are your choices in each round. Now the game continues.

When all bets are made and the remaining players have put the same amount of chips in the pot, the flop is displayed in the middle of the table. The flop is three community cards which all the players use to combine with their hole cards to make the best possible five-card poker hand. Remember that you must use no more and no less than two of your hole cards to complete the hand. This means that you for example have to have two cards of the same suit to complete a flush. If there are four suited cards on the board you can’t complete the flush if you only have one hole card of the same suit.

A new round of betting commences and it’s carried out in the same way as the first round of betting. Then the turn, a fourth community card, is displayed.

Yet another round of betting is carried out and finally the river is shown on the board.

There are now five community cards on the board and each player still in the hand has to make the best five card poker hand out of two of their own four hole cards and the community cards. You have to use two hole cards to complete the hand. No more, no less.

The player with the best five card hand wins the pot.