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Omaha starting hands.
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Omaha starting hand checkerA♥A♠K♥K♠
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Questions people ask
- What makes a good Omaha starting hand?
- Four cards that work together. You always use exactly two of them, so you want many good pairs of cards: high cards, pairs, two cards of the same suit, and cards close enough in rank to make straights. The best hands are high, double-suited and connected, like A♠A♥K♠K♥ or J♥10♥9♠8♠.
- Why aren't pocket aces enough in Omaha?
- Everyone has four cards, so someone often makes a straight, flush or set that beats one pair. A♠A♦7♣2♥ with no suits wins about 62% against one random hand but only about 29% against three, barely above an even 25% share, and it ranks around the top 20%. Aces with a suited ace and cards that help each other are much stronger.
- What is a dangler?
- A card that doesn't work with the other three: no pair, no shared suit, and too far in rank to help make a straight. In K♠Q♦7♣2♥ the 7 and the 2 are danglers. Since you play two cards at a time, a dangler leaves you fewer useful pairs of cards, so the hand plays more like three cards than four.
- What does double-suited mean?
- Two cards of one suit and two of another, like J♥10♥9♠8♠. It gives you two ways to make a flush. Three or four cards of one suit is worse, not better: you can only use two of them, and the extras are cards your own flush needs.
- Which hands should I play from each seat?
- At a six-player table, the coached practice mode opens about the top 15% of hands under the gun, 20% from the hijack, 27% from the cutoff, 40% from the button and 25% from the small blind, raising the pot. These are sensible starting points, not fixed rules.
- How were these numbers worked out?
- Every distinct starting hand was simulated: 16,432 of them once hands that differ only by which suits they use are grouped, covering all 270,725 hands. Each one played 6,000 random run-outs against one random hand and 3,000 against three random hands. Hands are ranked by equity against three hands because Omaha pots often have several players, and heads-up numbers flatter hands like bare aces. Each number can be off by about a percent.
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