While the origins of Omaha, that increasingly popular variation on Texas hold’em, are somewhat vague, most date its debut as occurring somewhere around the early 1980s.Poker player and author Bob Ciaffone was one of the first to write about the game, with the first version of his book Omaha Poker appearing way back in 1984.  In his book, Ciaffone mentions how the game was first played at the Golden Nugget Casino in the spring of 1982.  Indeed, for a time the game was called “Nugget hold’em” as it wasn’t being offered in any other casinos.

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