How to play 5 card omaha poker

admin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:17:55 +0000

Everybody knows that omaha poker is the new hold’em. Everybody wants to play omaha and even the big players like Ivey, Dwan and Antonius prefer omaha over hold’em. That’s an indication how this game will develop. But stop! We’re talking about the standard omaha game with four hole cards. There’s a lot of action and that’s why this game is so interesting. Stop again! What about playing omaha with 5 hole cards? Doesn’t that mean even more action and an interesting game? Indeed it does! So let’s take a look at the new omaha game called 5 card omaha:

5 card omaha is played like the standard omaha game. The only difference is that you get 5 instead of 4 hole cards. There are no other differences except for the amount of players that can participate in a 5 card omaha game. There are only 52 cards in the deck so you have to be careful. Obviously you can’t play with 10 players because those players will already take 50 cards. You can only play with 9 or less at least in online 5 card omaha games where you don’t have any burn cards. Then the players receive 45 cards and 5 cards are used as community cards.

So, that’s the big difference between 4 card and 5 card omaha.
You have to use exactly 2 of your 5 hole cards in 5 card omaha. It’s like 4 card omaha. There you can also only use 2 of your cards.

The big difference is in the 5 card omaha strategy! To learn 5 card omaha poker you should take a look at our 5 card omaha strategy section.

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How to play 5 card omaha poker