To understand what Pot Limit Omaha Hi is, you first have to understand the individual components. By that we mean that you have to know the rules of both pot limit games and of Omaha Hi. Since no limit ring games are the most popular, most players coming to pot limit are unprepared for the betting restrictions and don’t know how to use them to their best strategic advantage.

Whereas in no limit games players can go all in at any time, in pot limit games the largest bet a player can make is equal to the size of the current pot (including what they must already call in that betting round). While this restricts betting in the early rounds of a hand, eventually it’s entirely possible for players to go all in in PL Omaha Hi.

On to Omaha Hi. As you probably already know, Omaha itself is a community card variant that’s similar to Texas Hold’em with an important twist – it has twice the hole cards. The extra hole cards come with some extra rules, too; namely that a player must use exactly two of their hole cards plus exactly three of the board cards to make their final five-card hand.

Omaha Hi is the original version of the game where players aim to have the best possible hand, though Omaha Hi-Lo (also called Omaha – where the pot is split between the best qualifying high AND low hands – is gaining in popularity.

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Though Texas Hold’em remains the big draw for online players, Omaha is steadily attracting an increasingly large following. Because the pot limit version of the game remains more popular in Europe than the no limit version preferred in America, virtually all the major poker rooms now offer Omaha Hi Pot Limit. For example, the famous Poker Stars site offers Pot Limit Omaha Hi and also accepts both French and American players; in addition to ring games they also have some hefty daily PL Omaha Hi guaranteeds.

Newer, smaller rooms like Carbon Poker also offer Omaha Hi ring games in limit, no limit and pot limit formats and also accept both French and American players. In fact, these days when a room decides to add another variant Omaha Hi has become second only to Texas Hold’em itself.