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.

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As is the case in other split pot games like Seven Card Stud High-Low, the object of Omaha High-Low is to try to “scoop” both halves of the pot by making the best high hand <i>and</i> the best low hand.  This means when selecting your starting hands you want to be playing hands that have “two-way” potential and can therefore have a fighting chance to win both the high and the low.  By the same token, you generally want to avoid “one-way” hands that are either “high only” or “low only” hands, since you are often only going to be playing for half of the pot with those.
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