The fact of the matter is that most of the time when you are playing Omaha, you are going to be playing a drawing hand. It is a rare occasion that you can flop the nuts and have it hold up through the river. That being the case, you just need to make sure that [...]

If you mention that you play poker to the average person on the street, they will almost always assume you mean Texas Hold’em. Tournament Texas Hold’em was accepted as “the poker game” when the poker boom hit the United States in 2003, after Chris Moneymakers historic World Series of Poker Main Event victory. Millions of [...]

I have heard many people explain as Omaha, “It’s the same as Texas Hold’em, but you get 4 cards instead of two.” They then deal the cards and the person who received this information, still doesn’t really know what’s going on. While the overall concept of the game of Omaha, could be perhaps very simply [...]

In Texas Holdem Poker, when a player looks down and sees pocket aces, the player typically does a little leap inside their head.  Many players will tend to do the same thing in Pot Limit Omaha Poker when they look down at pocket aces.  Unfortunately, not all hands that contain aces are strong.  Let’s talk [...]