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Yes.
Firstly, your hand has to qualify as being a low hand. Qualifying five-card poker hands must have no pairs in there, and also has no card higher than an eight.
As a player can only (and must) use two cards from their starting hand, there have to be at least three community cards available that are also no higher than an eight.
Flushes and straights ...
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You have to first consider that only 2 cards of your 4 cards are used to make a Qualifying Low or Qualifying High in Omaha HiLo. The same 2 cards can be used for both your High and Low hands. So YES.
You can think about it as playing 2 different games with the same cards but with the same pot - Note that you may not have a Qualifying LOW all the time and ...
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Yes it is possible to win both Hi and Lowe pots What comes to mind first is:
If you have an Ace,2, and a 6,7, in your hand and the community cards are 3,4,5,j,10, then You win the low, A,2,3,4,5, and you wine the High with 3,4,5,6,7, (J+10 would be dead)
Or If you had a flush and a low hand. Say AS,2S, 8*, K* and the community cards are 3D, 4D, 6S, 5S,JS, ...
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