There are many home game variations of Omaha and hold’em — that is, games with community cards shared by all players — that are in a different array from the traditional five-card board. In this article, I want to share some of examples of such games, then in another we’ll delve into some related strategy considerations for these interesting home game variations.
For example, a game I played in the Bahamas, called Two by Four, had a board of four cards, dealt two at a time, for a total of only three betting rounds. Another game, called appropriately Double Omaha, has two rows of five dealt out as common cards, with players making their best high and best low hand using either the top or bottom row.