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

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

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