Omaha High-Low is traditionally played as a fixed-limit game, although you will sometimes find it played as a pot-limit game online. Pot-limit Omaha High-Low is almost never played live in brick-and-mortar poker rooms, although the World Series of Poker began staging one “PLO8” event (as it is sometimes called) back in 2007.
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Pot-limit Omaha plays much differently than no-limit Texas hold’em, thanks to two primary factors. One is the obvious difference between being dealt four hole cards rather than two. In Omaha games, you must use two of your four hole cards along with three community cards to make the best possible poker hand. This difference means hand values are much different in Omaha poker than in hold’em, since it is much more likely for players to make better hands given the extra options.
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Many players who began their poker-playing experience with either fixed-limit Texas hold’em or no-limit hold’em have started looking for other games to satisfy their curiosity for new, interesting challenges. A lot of those are finding Omaha poker, also a “flop game” that plays similarly to hold’em yet has so many differences, a good alternative to try.
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Pot-limit Omaha is fast becoming one of the more popular varieties of poker, with many Texas hold’em players moving over to give PLO a try. Since players are dealt four hole cards in Omaha games rather than two like in hold’em, the game has an added complexity that can be initially confounding to new players. But ultimately that complexity adds to the game’s intrigue and challenge.
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In no-limit Texas hold’em, there are some players who are extremely proficient at playing after the flop. Those players tend to play a higher percentage of hands than others who aren’t so comfortable after the flop, since they believe they can benefit from their superior decision making abilities once the community cards start to appear.
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Omaha High-Low is almost always played as a fixed-limit game. Most players these days encounter Omaha High-Low not as a stand-alone game but as part of the H.O.R.S.E. rotation. You’ll find in these H.O.R.S.E. games a lot of untutored Omaha High-Low play, with players often playing way too many hands and bleeding a lot of chips chasing thin draws, often to just half of the pot.
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So you’re interested in testing the waters over at the pot-limit Omaha tables? You’ve played a lot of Texas hold’em, but want to see what all the buzz is about in PLO, the so-called “action game”?
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Since its introduction in the early 1980s, Omaha poker has become increasingly popular as those players who grew up on stud games and Texas hold’em gravitate over to the new challenge of Omaha. The most popular variety of Omaha is undoubtedly pot-limit Omaha (high only), although the high-low limit version of Omaha has also attracted a number of players thanks to its inclusion in the H.O.R.S.E. rotation.
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While PLO tournaments are not nearly as popular today as no-limit hold’em tournaments are, the increasing popularity of PLO cash games has led to an increase in interest in PLO tourneys. Many major professional poker circuit tour stops are starting to include at least one PLO tournament in their series’ schedules. And, of course, one can always find PLO tournaments running around the clock on all of the major online poker sites like PokerStars, Party Poker, Full Tilt Poker, Bodog, Absolute Poker, and UltimateBet.
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Omaha is a fun, exciting game that often encourages a lot of action. Pot-limit Omaha (high only) tends to invite a lot of gambling as players pursue multiple draws and build large pots. Omaha high-low also often attracts players who like to play lots of hands, although in truth it really isn’t such a good strategy to play too loosely in Omaha high-low.

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