The Next Best Starting Hand in Omaha Poker

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"So what are the next best Omaha starting hands? Well, what you're looking for, again, a hand that gives you multiple ways to draw to a powerful hand that can win the pot for you. And what you want is what's called a wrap straight draw with a couple of suites in it. Now here are the best examples. This is queen jack suited, in clubs, and ten nine, suited, in hearts. What you're looking for is a draw that cuts through the high middle of the card sequence. So, the middle is nine and then it goes up. And I have a number of ways I can win a hand. Maybe I'll catch two pair. Maybe I will have a flush. There are straight flush possibilities, and of course straight possibilities. So, you're looking for queen jack, suited, or ten nine, suited, or jack ten, suited, nine eight, suited. Somewhere in that range, four connected cards in two suites will give you the best potential to draw to a straight or even a straight flush."