A Sample Poker Hand Of Omaha
Let's now take a look at how a sample hand of Omaha might proceed. Even though a beginner should not play in a high-stakes game, let's make the example more fun by assuming we're playing $30- $60-limit Omaha: eight people are at the table, listed here in clockwise order:
Andy is sitting to the left of the button and thus must post the $15 small blind.
Bob is sitting on Andy's left, so he posts the $30 big blind.
Chuck, Dave, Ed, Frank, and George come next and will act in that order.
Hal is the final player at the table, and he holds the button for this hand.
Four cards are dealt out to each of the eight players, the first card going to Andy in the small blind, the last card dealt to Hal on the button (the cards are dealt one at a time). Chuck, the first to take action, looks at his cards, sees that he has a strong starting hand, (2"0"0"K> and decides to raise the existing bet ($30) to $60. (In poker slang this would often be called "making it $60 to go.")
Dave, Ed, Frank, and George all decide to fold, but Hal, who has H-H-0-B> decides to call the $60 on the button. (Calling a raised pot, without having yet made any investment in it, is often referred to as "calling two bets cold.") Andy, who already has $15 in the pot because he posted the small blind, holds 0"H"[3"H and Puts in $45 more to cal1 the $60- Bob' who has already invested $30 in the big blind, and holds LQ-H, also calls the $60 by putting in $30 more. (By the way, I'm going to withhold, until the chapter on strategy, all comment about whether or not these raising and calling decisions, as well as the ones that follow, are good decisions.)
With four players still in the hand, the dealer turns up a flop of 0-0 "[!*]• Let's take another look at the players' hands and see how they fit this flop.
Andy: [3~H ~H"S • His Pair oi kin§s' which were never much of a threat to win a four-way pot without improving, are now almost certainly losing to someone who has an ace in his hand, although because Andy can't see the other player's cards, he can't be sure about this. Still, Andy retains some interest in the hand, because he has the [V] and (0 in his hand and two diamonds have flopped. This gives him a chance to make the second-best possible flush (called the "second-nut" flush).
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