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

Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas 7️⃣ hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, 7️⃣ plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert 7️⃣ Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd, who offered it as 7️⃣ a game at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino (calling it "Nugget Hold'em").[1][2] Omaha uses a 52-card French deck. Omaha 7️⃣ 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 7️⃣ types of games.

"Hold'em" refers to a game using community cards that are shared by all players. This is opposed to 7️⃣ draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concealed cards, and stud games, where each player's unique hand 7️⃣ contains a mix of cards visible to the other players and concealed hole cards.