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There are 52 cards in the pack, and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. There is no ranking between the
suits - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal.
A poker hand consists of five cards. The categories of hand, from highest to lowest, are listed below. Any hand in a higher category beats any hand in a lower category
(so for example any three of a kind beats any two pairs). Between hands in the same category the rank of the individual cards decides which is better, as described in more detail below.
In games where a player has more than five cards and selects five to form a poker hand, the remaining cards do not play any part in the ranking. Poker ranks are always
based on five cards only.
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Game Rules
- Omaha hold 'em (or Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game (often referred to as a "flop game") similar to Texas hold 'em, where each
player is dealt four cards and must make his best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards.
In North American casinos, the unadorned term "Omaha" can refer to several poker games. The original game is more commonly known as "Omaha High".
A high-low split variant can also be played. This is called "Omaha Hi-Lo", or sometimes "Omaha eight-or-better", or "Omaha/8".
In Europe, "Omaha" still typically refers to the high version of the game, usually played pot-limit. Pot-limit Omaha is often abbreviated as "PLO." Pot-limit and
no-limit Omaha eight-or-better can be found in some casinos and online, though no-limit is rarer.
It is often said that Omaha is a game of "the nuts", i.e. the best possible high or low hand, because it frequently takes "the nuts" to win a showdown. It is also a
game where between the cards in his hand and the community cards a player may have drawing possibilities to multiple different types of holdings. For example,
a player may have both a draw to a flush and a full house using different combinations of cards. At times, the players themselves have trouble figuring out what
draws and possibilities their cards hold.
The basic differences between Omaha and Texas hold 'em are these: first, each player is dealt four cards to his private hand instead of two. The betting rounds
and layout of community cards are identical. At showdown, each player's hand is the best five-card hand he can make from exactly three of the five cards on the
board, plus exactly two of his own cards. Unlike Texas hold 'em, a player cannot play four or five of the cards on the board with fewer than two of his own.
Some specific things to notice about Omaha hands are:
* As in Texas hold 'em, three or more suited cards on the board makes a flush possible, but unlike that game a player always needs two of that suit in his
hand to play a flush. For example, with a board of K? 9? Q? Q? 5?, a player with A? 2? 4? 5? cannot play a flush using his ace as he could in Texas hold 'em;
he must play two cards from his hand and only three from the board. A player with 2? 3? K? J? can play the spade flush.
* Two pair on the board does not make a full house for anyone with a single matching card as it does in Texas hold 'em. For example, with a board of J? J? 9? 5? 9?,
a player with a hand of A? 2? J? K? cannot play a full house; he can only use his A-J to play J? J? J? A? 9?, since he must play three of the board cards. A player
with 2? 5? 9? 10? can use his 9-5 to play the full house 9? 9? 9? 5? 5?.
* Likewise, with three of a kind on the board, a player must have a pair in his hand to make a full house. For example, with a board of J? J? A? J? K?, a player
with A? 2? 3? K? does not have a full house, he only has three jacks with an ace-king kicker, and will lose to a player with only a pair of deuces. This is probably
the most frequently misread hand in Omaha. (Naturally, a person with the fourth jack in his hand can make four jacks because any other card in his hand can act
as the fifth card, or "kicker").
Professional poker players can sense what their opponents have in their hands. When just beginning you may not be able to read your opponents with that level of skill, but if you
can take a moment to read the cards on the board, you can tell with certainty what they do not have. Reading the board lets you know what hands are possible, and from there
you can use other information from your opponents to gauge what hands are probable. And act accordingly.
Poker Definitions
- quads
Four of a kind.
qualifier, qualifying low
A qualifying low hand. High-low split games often require a minimum hand value, such as 8-high, in order to award the low half of the pot.
quarter
To win a quarter of a pot, usually by tying the low or high hand of a high-low split game. Generally, this is an unwanted outcome, as it seldom wins enough
money to cover the amount bet during the hand.
rabbit hunt
After a hand is over, a rabbit hunt means to reveal the last card that would have come up in a community card game with a fixed number of cards. Such
activity is usually prohibited in casinos.
rack
1. A collection of 100 chips of the same denomination, usually arranged in 5 stacks in a plastic tray.
2. A plastic tray used for storing a rack of chips.
ragged
In community card poker games, if the community cards are likely to be of little or no use to anyone, they are said to be ragged.
rags
Worthless (or apparently worthless) cards. Most often refers to small cards in high-hand games, while high cards in low games are more often called "bricks"
or "bombs". Also "blank".
rail
The rail is the sideline at a poker table - the (often imaginary) rail separating spectators from the field of play. Watching from the rail means watching a poker
game as a spectator. People on the rail are sometimes called railbirds.
rainbow
Three or four cards of different suits, especially said of a flop.
rakeback
Rebate/repayment to a player of a portion of the rake paid by that player, normally from a non-cardroom, third-party source such as an affiliate. Rakeback is
paid in many ways by online poker rooms, affiliates or brick and mortar rooms. Many use direct money payments for online poker play. Brick and Mortar rooms
usually use rate cards to track and pay their rakeback.
ram and jam
To aggressively bet, raise, and reraise.
ratholing
To "go south".
rebuy
An amount of chips purchased after the buy-in.
redeal
To deal a hand again, possibly after a misdeal.
redraw
1. To make one hand and have a draw for a better hand. Ted made a straight on the turn with a redraw for a flush on the river..
2. Second or later draws in a draw game with multiple draws.
represent
To represent a hand is to play as if you hold it (whether you actually hold it or are bluffing).
reraise
Raise after one has been raised. Also coming "over the top".
river rat
A player whose hand was dominated from the start, but improves his hand on the river to win the pot.
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