Omaha hold 'em A showdown in Omaha. Player on the left wins with Three of a kind. Exactly two hole 9️⃣ cards must be used. Alternative names Omaha Type Community card poker Players 2–10 Skills Probability, psychology Cards 52 Deck French 9️⃣ Rank (high→low) A K Q J 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 Play Clockwise Chance Medium to 9️⃣ high

Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas 9️⃣ hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, 9️⃣ plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert 9️⃣ Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd, who offered it as 9️⃣ a game at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino (calling it "Nugget Hold'em").[1][2] Omaha uses a 52-card French deck. Omaha 9️⃣ hold 'em 8-or-better is the "O" game featured in H.O.R.S.E.

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Omaha hold 'em derives its name from two 9️⃣ types of games.

"Hold'em" refers to a game using community cards that are shared by all players. This is opposed to 9️⃣ draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concealed cards, and stud games, where each player's unique hand 9️⃣ contains a mix of cards visible to the other players and concealed hole cards.