Omaha Eights

Rules: Like Omaha, but the low and high hands split the pot, provided the low hand is 8-high or lower. If no one can make a hand lower than 8-high, the high hand takes the entire pot.

Analysis: We tend to play this instead of straight Omaha, but it depends on who is calling it.

Note that, for the split pot to happen, there must be at least three low cards showing; otherwise, it's automatically high-only.

This is probably the single most important game to remember that "cards speak": players frequently screw up the rules, so everyone else checks their work.

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Council Bluffs: Omaha Eights, except that instead of the pivot being 8, it is the value of the river.