Omaha Hi / Lo

The Pot Limit Omaha High / Low is also known as Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or PLO8. This exciting game can be a rewarding experience for players and maintain good discipline in the game. For his strategy could say that not much like other forms of poker. Suggests many pitfalls that inexperienced players tend to fall. Which results in rapid bankruptcy for bad players in the PLO8 more than in other variants of poker .

Rules of Omaha Hi / Lo

This game tells Split Game or game spread, since in each hand happens that there are two winning hands , the high and low ( high hand and low hand ). In the game there is always a high hand, but not a low hand. Win the high hand in Hold’em. The low hand is made ​​up of five cards lower than nine and all different from each other. The more the smaller its value the better the play thing. The best low hand is A-2-3-4-5. So for there to be a low hand, among the community cards must be three cards lower than 9, if no such letters will not be possible to make a play low or Low.

Confrontations low hands, examples:

7-6-5-4-2 beats 8-7-4-2-A

8-5-4-2-A beats 8-6-3-2-A

A trick very easy to compare low hands, is to imagine that these are numbers say, is less than 87421 76542

Players are dealt four cards in Omaha Hi / Lo, at the end of the hand on the table are five community cards to help us make our combinations.

In contrast to what happens and Hold’em, to make our move , always, we must use two cards from your hand. However, we can use two cards for Hi and two others play different to the play thing, or you could use them to do both.

Examples of game:

Suppose we have A2QQ and the table is QJ-8-4-3. We use the two Qs to make our move higher, so we get a trio of Q’s, and use the move down the A and 2, so we have the best possible move down the table.

If for example A 3 5 K and the board is 2 -4-Q-J-K, we would take the A and 3 to make the move higher (as color) as well as A and 3 to make the move down : A-2-3-4-5