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Hands when playing Omaha
Yes. You must use exactly two cards from your hand to make your best 5-card poker hand, so if there were three 9's on the board your best hand would use the 9 and the highest ranked other card from ...
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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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Turn and river dealt twice, what is going on?
In a cash game, players can, if they agree to it, have multiple run outs of the board when one or more players are all-in.
Basically think of it as two separate hands with the same flop. The idea ...
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Omaha: Interesting dealer mistake at showdown
It seems quite plain to me that the sequence of events it crucial to resolving this situation. The fact that villains hands is mucked, and that a live hand is in play means Hero should be awarded the ...
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Playing PL Omaha
He has TTT66, you have 666KK.
A full house tens full of sixes (TTT66) beats sixes full of kings (666KK) in all variants of poker, not just PLO. This is because the tens are higher than the sixes, in ...
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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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General strategy shortstacked PLO cash games
The general strategy for Omaha is the same for playing short stacked in any poker game. Play tight aggressive. The concept is that you put your money in when you are against a large field with the ...
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I want to know who is in the wrong....?
I'm glad that you came to this site to ask this question.
I'd like to boil down your question, because you provided a lot of background information that does not add a lot to the question.
You are ...
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Confused about Omaha hand
Yes, exactly as you said you have to use 2 cards from your hand, apart from that it works exactly as NLHE in the sense of hand strength.
The reason you don't need have to play with pocket 10s is QQ ...
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Why is position so important in Omaha?
Position is so important in PLO, even more so than NHL (of course not to say position isn't important in NHL) for several reasons.
PLO being a capped betting game (meaning you can't just shove live ...
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Worst possible matchup for aces pre-flop in pot limit omaha
As to your main question, I couldn't come up with anything where hand 2 would have more than the 53.18 win % that you show. However, if you're looking at straight equity for hand 1, consider the ...
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What are odds of 2 players having same 4 hole cards in omaha?
Very interesting question. I assume that you mean that all 4 cards have the same rank and suits are ignored. This is not going to be a simple or short answer. Please bear with me.
To answer this ...
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Is starting out in PLO a good idea?
I play both PLO and NLHE, PLO would be my main game if it was more of a regular spread here.
So what I'll start with it the amount of NLHE players who jump to PLO, with the attitude of I play NLHE ...
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Are there any forms of poker where some of your personal cards are displayed from the start of the hand?
There are three common methods poker games use to "develop" hands over multiple betting rounds. In order of age of introduction:
The draw. Each player exchanges one or more of his cards for the same ...
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Why did I split this pot in PLO8
PLO8 is a split pot game, where half the pot is awarded to the player with the best Hi hand, and half the pot is awarded to the player with the best Lo hand. A hand qualifies to be a Lo hand if it is ...
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Hands when playing Omaha
The answer is yes.
And although you didnt ask here is some side info :
Kickers do not matter with Quads in Omaha.
When you hold quads you can only loose to a straight / royal flush or higher quads.
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5-way pot pot limit omaha cash game microstakes
Preflop: eh, not too excited about the hand, but you do have position. If the table has been limping with weak hands consistently, this is OK.
Flop: My first reaction was to agree with checking it ...
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"Streets" in holdem
In stud games 4th and 5th street refer to the 4th and 5th cards in the player's hand and not to the 4th betting round, since it is the 2nd or 3rd betting round (I am not quite sure exactly, because of ...
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Question for beginners in Omaha
In omaha you must use 2 cards from your hand and 3 cards from the board to make your 5 card poker hand. In this case player 1 will have AAAKT, so three of a kind. Player 2 will have AAA44, which is a ...
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Hu Plo KQT2 on flop T84
We have 52% equity against his range. Let's do a brief and rough ev calculation of all scenarios:
Supposing bet size at 200$ in the 300$ pot.
Donking
12% of the time we will be raised by a strong ...
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Do mucked cards call themselves in Omaha?
I am guessing you have a home game here, but I am going to answer with typical card room rule.
Once a player selects the 2 cards they want to play in the showdown, are the mucked cards still in play?
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In PLO in a casino can a player say I raise "half the pot"?
Yes, although it is kind of a vague way of asking how much the pot is. You can always ask a dealer how much is in the pot and then size your bet anywhere from to minimum bet of a game to the pot size. ...
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How come AJ is the winner in this Omaha scenario?
In Omaha, you create your best five card hand by using precisely three community cards and precisely two hole cards.
In this example, your best hand is AA22J, which uses A22 from the community cards ...
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Playing the SB pre-flop in omaha cash games general strategy
Disclaimer: I rarely play PLO
In NLHE, the value in a 3-betting marginal hands comes almost entirely from from fold equity (ie the money you make when they fold). The problem with having a high 3-...
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Best books for beginners Pot-Limit Omaha
Best book, I don't know as it's pretty personal opinions, but Master Pot-Limit Omaha the modern aggressive approach by Herbery Okolowitz & Wladimir Taschner is good.
Ok strictly speaking not the ...
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"Streets" in holdem
If you look at Stud variations, the small forced ante or just ante would be the first street. The large forced bring in would be an automatic bet the low man would be forced to make and would be 2nd ...
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PLO against 3 opponents. Board is 434 rainbow. What is the probability of someone having a 4?
Let's first calculate the odds of 1 opponent having a four. I will then give the general formula for 'x' opponents.
There are 3 cards on the board and you have 4 cards. This means there are 45 cards ...
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