I’ve never played for play money at Full Tilt, but if you can consistently make money at the highest buy-in play money sit and goes, you’re probably ready to go to the lowest buy in real money sit and goes.

I play a lot of play-chip tables, as well as live cash games & tournaments, and one thing I can tell you for sure, that people play much looser with play-chips. Consider this: How many times have you had a big bet called on the flop by a guy chasing a straight or a flush? It happens a lot, doesn’t it? You get called by someone with pot odds against him, they get lucky, and win “your” pot… This wont happen so much for real money. You’ll find it far easier to protect your hand with a good bet, and fold your opponents.

At the same time, you’ll have to tighten up your own game, as fewer people will be throwing chips at the pot “just because…..”
In short, I don’t think you’ll really know until you start playing real money tables. Better study up on pot odds though….

Good luck out there! –Unless you’re playing me

you’ll just have to play. It’s pretty easy in this day and age to find poker tables that have a 2/4 table. If you can ride out $100 for a few hours without getting crushed, then you can play live poker. If you can actually have a few winning days, then maybe your ready for a 5/10 table. Live play, once the stakes are raised, MUCH different than tournament poker.

when you have lots of money.

dont you can get addicted

In Texas Hold’em you receive two face-down cards, and you can use one, both, or no cards from your hands (the community is your best five-card hand.) In Omaha, you receive four face-down cards, and you must always use two and only two cards from your hand. For example, if you have 8TJQ, all of spades, and the A and K of spades is on the board (As Ks 2d 6h 9c), you do NOT have a royal flush, any flush, or even a straight! You just have the best possible Ace High.

Another popular variation used in Omaha is Hi-Lo, which means that you can have a Hi hand, like a straight or a full house, and a Lo hand, which is made up of five unique cards, not counting suits, from A to 8. The best Lo is 5432A (commonly called a wheel) and the worst Lo hand is 87654. (This is the best Hi hand that can also qualify as a Lo hand).

To try out both Omaha variations online, I recommend Poker Stars as a great place to try out the game for free, and even put a little money in it if you think you’re up to the Omaha Challenge. It’s at. Good Luck!

Very similar games but some important differences:

In hold’em you have 2 starting cards 5 community cards
In Omaha you have 4 starting cards 5 community cards

Important differernce:
You MUST use exactly 2 cards from your dealt cards in Omaha to make your hand. This means that if you are dealt Ace of clubs and its your only club and the board gives you 4 more clubs you DO NOT have a flush.

It also means that if you are dealt a 3 or 4 of a kind, you have one of the worst starting hands in Omaha.

Omaha is typically played with Pot limit, meaning you cannot raise more than the total cash on the table after you call.

Hold’m can also be played with pot limit but No limit or Fixed limit is more common. Omaha is normally only played in pot limit.

The two games are very similar. However, the major difference is that in Holde’m you get 2 hole cards, while in Omaha you get 4 hole cards. Otherwise, the same rules apply… best 5 card hand wins. Players can only use up to 2 of the 4 hole cards at any time. It is much more difficult than Hold’em, because of the hand odds.

There is a huge difference, in Omaha poker you get four hole cards and MUST use two of them, you cannot use 1 , 3 , or 4 , it must be two, this makes flush`s and straights much more easy to get. Eg with a center cards of Ad 7d 4s 6d kh
in Texas hold em any flush would probably win it. but in Omaha you would only be confident if your flush is a high one because it is much much easier to get two diamonds in 4 cards than 2 diamonds in two cards.

Texas Holdem and Omaha both are played in essentially the same way. However, in Omaha, everyone is dealt four cards as opposed to the two that are dealt in texas holdem. Also, in Holdem you can use as many of the five community cards to make up the best hand (ie both of your hole cards and three community, only one hole card and four from the table, or even all five community cards) whereas in omaha you must use two of your hole cards to make up your best five card hand, no more, no less. Thus there are generally better hands in omaha then there are in holdem. For instance, the probability of getting a flush or straight is higher (since you can see nine cards instead of just seven).