At first glance, taking up Omaha when you already understand Texas hold’em seems easy – just a case of moving from a five community- card game with two hole cards to a five-community-card game with four hole cards.

Yet just as first glances at members of the opposite sex and their apparent attractiveness has led most of us into trouble at one time or another, so too has the hold’em player’s first lustful glance at Omaha. They’re lulled into a false sense of security by their hard-won hold’em knowledge – all too often their understanding of hand values and what’s important in the game leads them to incorrect conclusions in Omaha.