Omaha is a community card game similar to Texas Hold 'em. To start, four cards are dealt face down to each player (Texas Hold 'em has two cards) prior to the flop and then you must use two cards from your hand combined with three cards from the board to form your best five-card poker hand.
To start play, blinds are posted which means the player to the left of the dealer posts a small blind and the player to the left of the small blind posts a big blind.
Four pocket cards are dealt to each player, face down and one at a time. A round of pre-flop betting occurs. The flop is then dealt (3 community cards) followed by a 2nd round of betting. The turn card is then dealt (the 4th community card) followed again by a round of betting. And finally the river card is dealt (the 5th community card).A final round of betting occurs. Betting rounds consist of a bet and a maximum of 3 raises.
The Showdown occurs with each remaining player using 2 pocket cards and 3 community cards to make their highest hand. The pot is awarded to the player who assembles the best five-card hand.
Omaha is played with a standard 52-card deck and up to 10 participants. A dealer "button" is used to indicate the position of the player who would be dealing the cards if the players were actually dealing the cards themselves. The player holding the dealer button acts last and therefore has a positional advantage that remains throughout that hand. After each hand, the button is moved one position clockwise, so that all players in the game have, after a full round, exactly the same number of opportunities to hold positional advantage.
In each round, the two players who are on the dealer button's immediate left must post "blind" bets. Typically, the player in the first position in the immediate left posts a small blind bet - one-half the size of the player in the second position who bets a big blind, although in some games, the small blind may be as little as one-third or as much as two-thirds the size of the second bet big blind.
All participants are now dealt four cards face down. These are pocket cards and belong exclusively to their "owners," and are not seen by the other players at any time until the showdown at the end of the hand. A round of betting takes place at this point, which is called "before the flop" or "pre-flop."
Once the pre-flop betting is complete, the three cards are dealt face-up. These are "community" cards that belong to everyone, and these three cards are called "the flop."
A second round of betting follows. In the second betting round, the player closest to the left of the button, who is still in the hand, acts first. After everyone places his or her bets, a 4th community card is dealt which is called the "Turn" card, or "Fourth Street."
After the third round of betting concludes, the dealer reveals the fifth and final community card, called "the River," or "Fifth Street," which leads to a final round of betting.
At the end of the final round of betting, any players still remaining in the hand turn their cards over. If at any point during the hand, one player makes a bet that all others decline to call, the hand is over immediately, and the player who made the final wager takes the pot without the need to show his or her cards. The player who can assemble the best five-card hand wins the pot.
To make their best hand in Omaha, players use any 2 of his or her 4 pocket cards AND any 3 of the 5 community cards.
| Pocket Cards | Community Cards | Best Hand Evaluation | |
| As|Ah|Ac|2d | Ad|Kd|10d|2d|8d | As|Ah|Ad|Kd|10d | 3 of a kind |
| 2s|4s|6c|10d | 9s|10s|Jd|Qd|Kc | Kc|Qd|10s|10c|6c | Pair of 10s |
| Ad|10s|Jc|Kd | 2c|8d|9c|Qc|As | 8d|9c|10s|Jc|Qc | Q high straight |
| Ac|Ad|Ks|2h | Ah|Kd|4c|8c|6d | Ac|Ad|Ah|Kd|8c | 3 of a kind |
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