More math, less bluffing in Omaha Hi-Lo
Look around any poker room today, especially in the higher limit section, and you’ll definitely find a game of Omaha Hi-Lo. The game is vastly different from Seven-Card Stud or Texas Hold’em as far as strategy is concerned, since it caters to a more conservative, mathematical approach, which allows less room for bluffing.The rules are as follows:The game is dealt just like Hold’em: a button, a small blind and a big blind to initiate action. In Omaha Hi-Lo, however, each player is dealt four card
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Poker slang:
- HIT - To make a hand or catch a card or cards that improves one's hand. "I hit a gut-shot draw on the river."
- CARDS SPEAK - Winner(s) of the hand are determined by turning their cards face up, the best hand(s) wins (no declaration).
- HIGH-LOW SPLIT - Forms of poker in which the pot is split between the best hand and best lowball hand.
- QUALIFIER - A minimum standard that a hand must meet in order to win. Usually applied to the lowball side of a high-low split pot.
- SCOOP - To take all of a pot that is normally split, either by winning both halves outright or winning one half when no players qualify for the other half.
- STEAM - Playing wildly, calling and raising a lot, because one is upset. Compare: ON TILT.
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