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Community card poker game

Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd, who offered it as a game at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino (calling it "Nugget Hold'em"). Omaha uses a 52 card French deck. Omaha hold 'em 8 or better is the "O" game featured in H. O. R. S. E.

Omaha hold 'em derives its name from two types of games. "Hold'em" refers to a game using community cards that are shared by all players. This is opposed to draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concealed cards, and stud games, where each player's unique hand contains a mix of cards visible to the other players and concealed hole cards. In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards. This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super/System (under Omaha) as being interchangeable with "Tight hold 'em". Across all the variations of the game, the requirement of using exactly two hole cards is the only consistent rule. The "Omaha" part of the name represents this aspect of the game.

Pot limit Omaha (frequently shortened to PLO) is popular in Europe, online, and in high stakes "mixed games" played in some American casinos. This variant is more often played high only, but can also be played high low. To a still greater degree than in Limit Omaha Hi Lo, PLO is a game of drawing, when drawing, to the nut hand. Second best flushes and straights can be, and frequently become, losing hands, especially when a player is willing to commit their entire stack to the pot. Furthermore, because of the exponential growth of the pot size in pot limit play, seeing one of these hands to the end can be very expensive and carry immense reverse implied odds.

In poker, an out is any unseen card in the deck that will give a player the best hand. A wrap is a straight draw with nine or more outs. This is called a wrap because the player’s hole cards are said to wrap around the board cards. In Texas hold 'em, where players have two hole cards, the greatest number of straight outs possible is eight; however, in Omaha, there are four hole cards, which can result in straight draws which can have up to 20 outs. An example of a twenty out wrap is on a flop of To hit a straight, any of the following cards is needed: .

A desirable hand to have in PLO is the current best hand with a redraw. For example, if the board is , and the player has , then not only do they have the current best hand possible (their ace king makes the ace high straight), but they also have a redraw with the two queens in their hand because if the board pairs, they will make a full house, or four queens. would be an even better hand because it has flush and royal flush redraws as well. In fact, with the board, is approximately an 80 20 money favorite over a random hand containing ace king (see freerolling). Even a pair of queens with any two spades is better than 55 45 against a random ace king hand.

The most common variations of Pot Limit Omaha high are Five card Omaha, commonly referred as "Big O" very popular in Southeastern United States as a home game and Six card Omaha or 6 O which can be found in many casinos across the UK. Some online poker rooms support Five card Omaha, Six card Omaha and Courchevel. "Big O" (occasionally called Five card Omaha or 5 O) began appearing in Southern California in 2008 and had spread to most of the card rooms in the area by the end of the year. Sometimes the high low split game is played with a 9 or a 7 high qualifier instead of 8 high. It can also be played with five cards dealt to each player instead of four. In that case, the same rules for making a hand apply: exactly two from the player's hand, and exactly three from the board.

Courchevel is named after the high end ski resort in the French Alps. According to the urban legend, bored tourists wanted to play a version of poker no one has ever played before, so they came up with this game. The place where Courchevel was most commonly played was the Aviation Club de France in Paris. That casino is now closed. In the game of Courchevel, players are dealt five hole cards rather than four. Simultaneously, the first community card is dealt. Following an opening round of betting, two additional community cards are dealt, creating a 3 card flop, where the structure of the game is then identical to standard Omaha. Still, exactly two of the five hole cards must be used. Courchevel is popular in France but its popularity has expanded in other parts of Europe, particularly the United Kingdom. Courchevel is also available in a hi low 8 or better variety, and while Courchevel is rarely offered on any of the major online poker sites, as of 2019, hi low sit and go games at the micro stakes level can be found taking place several times a day on Pokerstars, which had the game since 2013.