5 Reasons why Texas Hold'em is better than Omaha.

Texas Hold’em and Omaha are two popular variants of the game of Poker. But let’s be honest, none of the cool kids are playing Omaha these days. At least not me anyway.

Sure, a few high stakes players are clinging on to the game for the sake of hanging on to something useless. But all in all, playing Omaha is like listening to the big game on the radio as opposed to watching it on a ridiculously large HD TV.

Below are my top 5 reasons why Texas Hold’em dominates Omaha in terms of, well… everything.

1) None of that Hi/Lo nonsense.

What kind of a game rewards players for coming last? It’s like getting the first question wrong on “Who wants to be a millionaire?” and taking down the top prize. I don’t want to live in a world that backwards, and neither should you.

A real-man’s game involves being the best / making the best hand and taking down the winnings along with a bunch of women, maybe even a few beers too. I’m just not going to have it any other way thank you very much.

2) Less cards = less confusion.

I don’t know of anyone that hasn’t felt slightly cheated after playing one of their first few hands of Omaha and found out the hard way that you have to use 2 cards and 2 cards only from your hand. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like being told what to do, especially not in my card games.

In addition to this, I’m fairly sure that the only reason that you get dealt 4 cards in Omaha is so that the game can show you how many awesome hands you could make with 1, 3 or 4 card combinations from your hand. Then the rules force you to make a god awful bottom two-pair hand as opposed to a royal flush because you have to use precisely two-cards.

Omaha is the only card game I know of that forces you to lose big pots along with the will to live in the space of one hand.

3) More cards in Omaha = less friends.

Omaha by nature forces you to have less friends than Texas Hold’em.

If you really push the boat out, you can deal just over 20 of your friends in to one hand of Texas Hold’em. Sure, it would be a ridiculous game, but the fact of the matter is that it’s still possible. However, our good old obnoxious friend Omaha will only allow you to deal up to 11 friends in to the game.

Thanks to good old Texas Hold’em poker, I can maintain a healthy abundance of friends and acquaintances whilst simultaneously playing poker and winning their money.

4) Omaha is often played as a pot-limit game.

Pot limit poker is a culmination of the worst aspects of limit and no limit poker, which is intended to help suck out all enjoyment from any poker game that decides to play host to this betting structure.

Well, maybe that’s a bit harsh, but pot limit games just aint that much fun. Pot limit poker is basically no limit poker with training wheels, so I fail to have any respect for a game that uses it as it’s primary betting structure.

5) Sam Farha plays Omaha.

Texas Hold’em has Phil Ivey, Omaha has Sam Farha.

Exactly.

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