Most players who take up pot-limit Omaha come to the game from Texas hold’em and thus have at least a partial knowledge of how flop games work. In fact, the many similarities between Omaha and hold’em — the order of the deal, the blinds, the sequence of betting — sometimes will get the hold’em player in trouble, especially if he or she tries to apply all of those strategies that worked so well in hold’em when playing PLO.

