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").[1][2] Omaha uses a 52-card French deck. Omaha🌛 hold 'em 8-or-better is the "O" game featured in H.O.R.S.E.

"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 deal above, Chris wins the high-hand half of the pot with their J-high straight, and Bryan and Eve🌛 split the low half (getting a quarter of the pot each) with 7-5-3-2-A.

Straights and flushes are ignored when judging low🌛 hands. Low hand ranks from best to worst: 5-4-3-2-A (the wheel), 6-4-3-2-A, 6-5-3-2-A, 6-5-4-2-A, ..., 8-7-6-5-4. Low hands can thus🌛 be read as numbers between 54,321 and 87,654 (with the exception of any number that has a pair, i.e. 54,322).🌛 The lowest number that any player can make, while ordered from high card to low, is the best possible low🌛 hand in play. For example: 2♠ 3♣ 5♥ 6♥ 7♥ wins over A♠ 2♣ 3♥ 4♣ 8♠[7]

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