How to Play Omaha High-Low Poker?

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When you are learning how to play Omaha high-low you need to learn some special approaches with starting hands.


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When you are learning how to play Omaha high-low you need to learn some special approaches with starting hands.  It is also important that you concentrate in comparing your hand with the community card for a poker when you are learning how to play Omaha high-low as a beginner or amateur.  Never forget the 2 from the pocket card and 3 from the board card concept in Omaha.

How to play Omaha high-low explained in a nutshell:-
•	Forced blinds are made.
•	Four down cards are dealt – bet follows from player left to blind (4 pocket)
•	Burn
•	Three face up community cards - bet follows – from remaining players (3 flop cards)
•	Another face up community card - bet follows - from remaining players (1 turn card)
•	Last community card face up - bet follows - from remaining players (1 river card)
•	Showdown, high and low shares the pot

How to play Omaha high-low and finalize on pot splitting?
•	If the same player has both the high and low the pot is taken by the single player.
•	If one player has high and other has low (8 or better) the pot is split in to half
•	If one player has high and 2 have equally ranked lows, half pot goes to the high rank and the remaining half pot is split between the two lows
•	If one player has high and lows and another has equal lows, the high low player takes three-fourth of the pot and the one-fourth is taken by the player with equal low.

A strong starting can be a monstrous luck.  If you happen to have the following, you have most probabilities of winning:-
•	AAKK, AAQQ, AAJJ, AATT, AAJT, AA99 or AAXX are the best of the hands regardless of double suits.
•	KKQQ, KKJJ, KKTT, QQJJ, QQTT, KQJT, JT98, KKAQ, KKAJ, KKQJ, KKQT, KKJT, QQAK, QQAJ, AAKJ, QQKT, QQJT, QQJ9 are also best hands.

When you learn how to play Omaha high-low the most of the trick lies in:-
•	Pocket card versus community card considering the 2 from pocket and 3 from board requirement.
•	Above all learn to read the 8 or better low card versus the low nuts!

When you learn how to play Omaha high-low you need concentrate on how to read the low nuts, if possible try to mug up the series of nut lows.