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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
Each player in a basic game of poker is given five cards to make their hand. There are variants to the game where players receive more than five cards and players have community cards. However it is ...
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Counterfeit confusion in Omaha Hi-Lo
You would use [A2][543] and the villain would use [A5][432] to make the same Lo. There is no counterfeiting here.
If the board was instead K324J, you would have no Lo.
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How to determine the winning hands in poker?
Which Poker Hand Wins Calculator
Hands Overview
Straight Flush
Four of a kind
Full house
Flush
Straight
Three of a kind
Two Pair
Pair
High card
Why that order?
The order is based on math / ...
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Can I use all the cards in a hand in Omaha hi-low?
Yes, a player can use any combination of two cards from their hand and 3 from the board in Omaha Hi-low to make a complete hand, and they do now have to be the same cards for the high and low hands.
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Poker Hi Low 8 or Better - calling your hand
There are at least two different ways to play high-low split poker: "declare" and "cards speak". With the "declare" option there's also "in-turn" and "...
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High low Omaha question
For both your high and your low hand you must use 2 cards from your hand and 3 cards from the board. With 76 you have 34567 for the high and A2367 for the low. With A2 you have A2345 for the high and ...
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Odds on flopping a Royal Flush?
The number of different poker hands is '52 over 5' which is 2598960. Four of them are royal flushes, so the chance of a poker hand to be a royal flush is 649740. Because you have four holes, you can ...
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What happens if no one has a low hand
If there is no qualifying low, the full pot is awarded to the player(s) with the high hand.
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Winning with pocket quads at omaha hi low
Correct. It would be possible, but highly unlikely to win the high half of the pot, with one pair, two pair or a full house.
You cannot win the low half at all, as one pair does not qualify for a low ...
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Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better rules
Player 1 can raise call or fold when the action gets to him.
Player 2 can only call the 15 dollar raise, this small raise does not reopen the action for player two. When the raise is large enough to ...
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Pot Limit Omaha 8 or better rules
Once any person checks or bets he can't raise anymore unless someone else bets or raises an amount that is more than a min-bet or min-raise.
A min-bet is betting a big blind. A min-raise is ...
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Odds on flopping a Royal Flush?
In Omaha you must play exactly two cards from you hole cards
First you need the two royal cards in your hole cards. You don't want a 3rd as it blocks the royal.
You could technically have two ...
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In what situations will you lose the low-pot in Omaha Hi/Lo while holding Ace-Deuce?
A2 will be nut low when:
There are 3 or more different cards 8 of below on the board.
None of those three board cards is an A or 2.
It might still be nut low in other cases, for example where either
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