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www.bodogpoker.com – Many players who have ventured into an Omaha room online or elsewhere, will have a basic grasp of the game, and you might think that you would have enough knowledge of the game to play omaha hi/lo too. But if you have never tried the hi/lo variant, you could find it surprisingly confusing. There are key differences in this game which set it aside from regular Omaha, and these cause the powerful hands of the original game to change somewhat.

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Generally speaking, you would feel that (A,A,2,3) in regular Omaha was a reasonable hand, especially if you are double suited, but in hi/lo, this becomes a very powerful hand indeed.

The object of Omaha hi/lo is to hopefully win with the lowest possible five card hand of unpaired cards, whilst winning the high hand which we are more accustomed too as well. There will be instances where there is no possibility of a low hand, and in this case, the high hand wins the whole pot. No matter how good your high hand is though, if there is a possibility of making a low hand, you are unlikely to win the entire pot if you have no low hand. This rule of the low hand winning half the pot is the reason (A,A,2,3) and similar hands are so valuable.

There are many combinations of cards which might hit the board to give you a wheel, and win you half the pot. The pair of aces and double suited nature of your hand also give excellent prospects for a high hand too. If your low hand ties with another players however, be careful, because they might win the high half of the pot, as well as taking half of your ‘low’ part of the pot. This is known as getting ‘quartered’.

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