There are lots of places to find poker action on the Vegas Strip. But the days of heading downtown to Binions or another old-time poker room are long gone.

The best poker rooms are in the best casinos these days. The Wynn has one of the newest and fanciest rooms in town with great staff that will spread just about any game you ask for. Caesars has a giant room that separates tournament action from cash action, and low limits for no limit holdem and lots of Omaha Hi/Low action.

The king of Vegas poker action is still the Bellagio. It’s where the biggest games are played and the best in the world can be seen on a daily basis. Modern poker rooms are designed to be like the Bellagio, which provides limit action as high as you can imagine, and no-limit games are spread on many levels.

The games that are most like hold’em are the Omaha versions of poker. It’s essentially the same game except that you get dealt four cards instead of two to begin each hand. All the rules are the same as hold’em, except that a player can only use two of the four cards to complete their hand. It’s not an option to use one or three of them; it must be two from your hand and three from the board.

Omaha has many variations including Omaha High, High/Low Split, and Pot-Limit, no-limit or limit. The one that most plays like hold’em is the straightforward version of Omaha High. The common opinion is that the pot-limit version is the best way to play Omaha because the betting is limited enough for players to call bets on draws in hands that they would have been forced out of in a no-limit version.

To decide which game is better between Omaha and Texas Hold’em depends on what type of poker you like to play, and how available you want your game to be.

Hold’em is a game that can be played in three different forms; limit, no-limit, and pot-limit hold’em are all good games. Omaha is best played in the pot-limit form because of the drawing odds the game presents. This limits action in Omaha compared to hold’em.

Omaha is an action-packed game that can create huge pots. Most hold’em pots are small and short with the occasional big one. Omaha hands usually present numerous outs for opponents to draw to the best hand, so players remain in after bets more often. Most players learn to play Omaha after they’ve played a lot of hold’em. Personally, if I had to choose just one, it would be hold’em because of the player’s ability to bluff at pots easier than in Omaha.