Six-Card Omaha
Omaha with six hole cards instead of four, creating fifteen possible hole-card combinations and pushing average hand strength even higher than 5-Card Omaha.
Coming soon — not yet playable
Rules
Six-Card Omaha (sometimes called PLO6) deals six hole cards to each player. A round of betting follows the initial deal, using the same blind structure as Hold'em and Omaha.
Flop, turn, and river proceed identically to standard Omaha: three community cards, then one more, then one more, each followed by a betting round.
Showdown: each player must use exactly two of their six hole cards combined with exactly three of the five community cards to make their best five-card hand — with six cards to choose from, there are fifteen possible two-card combinations to consider, compared to Omaha's six.
Strategy notes: Because so many more hole-card combinations are available, average winning hands are noticeably stronger than in standard Omaha or even 5-Card Omaha — starting hands need real coordination between multiple cards (double-suited, connected ranks) to be worth playing, since raw card count alone doesn't guarantee a usable combination.
Common house rules
Fifteen possible hole-card combinations
With six hole cards, there are C(6,2) = 15 possible two-card pairings to evaluate — worth mentioning to new players, since it's easy to underestimate how much this expands playable combinations compared to four-card Omaha.
Pot-limit strongly recommended
Given how high average hand strength runs with six hole cards, pot-limit betting (rather than no-limit) is even more strongly recommended here than in standard Omaha, to keep the game from escalating too fast.
Six hole cards, still exactly two used
As in all Omaha-family games, exactly two of the six hole cards (not more, not fewer) must be used at showdown, combined with exactly three of the five community cards.
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