I found this on the internet. Apparently it was a reply to an RGP post back in 1998.

Could someone please explain Omaha to me?

Surely.

What you do is get four cards. Doesn't matter much what they are because nobody really looks at them anyway. Next, they put three cards on the board. It doesn't matter what they are because nobody really pays any attention to the flop either. Then one more card for the turn and another one for the river. Same betting scenario as before. Doesn't really matter much what they are, except, for a few of the players that may have "cheated" and looked at their hole cards. These players may now fold if they have absolutely no outs. (Mostly bad sports.) Now, at the showdown, everybody turns over their cards and helps the dealer figure out who has the best hand. You MUST play two cards out of your hand so this usually takes a while and and the winning hand is usually found out after a little bit of searching by all of the players and a partially confused dealer. The dealer now pushes the pot to the wrong player and everybody yells at him and he smiles glibly and says, "Oh yeah,,,sorry" and then sends it in the right direction. Then, after all of that excitement dies down, everybody lets out a collective sigh of relief and gets ready to wind up and do it all over again. Fun game.

I never played it live. Thank God for Internet Poker

That is an absurd and incorrect description. What really occurs at showdown is one player announces proudly "I have a full house", at which point the guy next to him says, "wait, you can't use three cards from your hand", showing down his straight. A third guy asks if this means he doesn't have a flush then, and the sheepish looking woman on his left hand side announces "oh damn, I thought this was high-low" as the pot is split between a variety of straights and she tables her pair of 5s.

Monk
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