Each player must use exactly three cards from the
five community cards and two from his or her hand in any combination to form a
high hand and a low hand. The same two cards do not have to be used for the high
and the low. Please note that if there are not at least three community cards
ranked eight or below, there will be no low hand and the entire pot will be awarded
to the best high hand. The most important rule is: Each player must use exactly
three community cards and two hole cards. It sounds simple, but many players,
especially at lower limits don’t understand the rules. Many times two players
will have the same low hand and split the low half of the pot. This is often called
“getting quartered.”
In Omaha/8,
there is an 8 qualifier. This means that to have a hand that qualifies for low,
you must have five non-paired cards eight or below. One thing that often confuses
players is how to correctly determine which hand is the lowest. The easiest way
to do this is to read the hands backwards like a number. For example, 8 5 3 2
A would be read 85,321. The lower the number, the lower the hand. Here are a few
examples in order from lowest to highest to help you understand how this works.
A 2 3 4 5 - 54,321
A 2 4 5 6 - 65,421
2 3 4 5 6 - 65,432
3 4 5 6 7 - 76,543
A 2 3 4 8 - 84,321
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