Unlike Texas Hold’em, Omaha gives each player four hole cards instead of two. However, only two of those cards may be combined with exactly three community cards to form the best possible five-card hand. Because of the extra hole cards, stronger hands like straights, flushes, and two pairs occur far more frequently in Omaha than in Hold’em.
Omaha Hi is typically played as a no limit or pot limit game.
Omaha is played identically to Texas hold’em, with play always beginning to the left of the dealer, starting with the small and big blind. Cards are dealt clockwise around the table and action beings with the player to the immediate left of the big blind, who can fold, call, or bet.
Action then follows clockwise around the table until all players have acted, after which the dealer discards the top card of the deck (known as ‘burning’) and deals out the top three cards face up to the middle of the table (these three cards being known as ‘the flop’).
Action proceeds around the table and is followed by the dealer burning the top card and dealing the next card face up (the ‘turn’), identically to the flop.
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