This makes some nut hands very vulnerable in nine-card games, such as Omaha hold ' em.

In the East, the progress started in Omaha, Nebraska, by the Union Pacific Railroad proceeded very quickly because of the open terrain of the Great Plains.

The terrain at the very eastern end of Omaha, however, gave them enough protection to allow the 125 survivors to organize and begin an assault of the bluffs.

Kenneth P. Lord, a U. S. Army planner for the D-Day invasion, says that, upon hearing the naval gunfire support plan for Omaha Beach, which limited support to one battleship, two cruisers and six destroyers, he and other planners were very upset — especially in light of the tremendous naval gunfire support given to landings in the Pacific.

Both Omaha and Texas Hold ' em tournaments are commonly offered in fixed-limit and pot limit, and no limit Texas hold ' em tournaments are very common ( no-limit Omaha is almost nonexistent in tournament play ).

InterNorth Inc. was a very large energy company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States, specializing in natural gas pipelines but also a force in the plastics industry, coal and petroleum exploration and production.

* Omaha is the stage name of Susan " Susie " Jensen ( though very few of the other characters know her real name ), an anthropomorphic feline stripper.

In the very early comics that appeared in Vootie magazine, she and Omaha were lovers.

She also bears a very striking resemblance to Omaha.

He was also very active in the Omaha area.

He later joined the Omaha Royals and despite a very solid season in which he produced a batting average of. 282 with 27 home runs and 97 RBI, he was not given another opportunity to play in the Majors.

The Omaha speak a Siouan language of the Dhegihan branch that is very similar to that spoken by the Ponca.

Omaha has had some very heated battles in their times together with Sioux City ( now a member of the APFL ) and Sioux Falls since the NIFL.

In 1881 after a very brief illness Briggs died at his son John's residence in Omaha, Nebraska.

After the end of his active wrestling career he started a successful wrestling school in Omaha and later coached Cedar Rapids ' Washington high school to the very first Iowa high school state wrestling tournament title.

* The first USS Omaha ( 1869 ), an Algoma class sloop, served in the last decades of the 19th century

* The third USS Omaha ( SSN-692 ), a Los Angeles-class submarine, served during the last years of the Cold War

A growing number of African immigrants have made their homes in Omaha in the last twenty years.

Rosalie was named for Rosalie La Flesche, a daughter of Joseph La Flesche, the last principal chief of the Omaha tribe selected by traditional means in the nineteenth century, and the only chief of part-European ancestry.

Its first convention was in 1892, when delegates from farm, labor and reform organizations met in Omaha, Nebraska, determined at last to make their mark on a U. S. political system that they viewed as hopelessly corrupted by the monied interests of the industrial and commercial trusts.

One account holds that Reuben Kulakofsky ( sometimes spelled Reubin, or the last name shortened to Kay ), a Lithuanian-born grocer from Omaha, Nebraska, was the inventor, perhaps as part of a group effort by members of Kulakofsky's weekly poker game held in the Blackstone Hotel from around 1920 through 1935.

While the harbour at Omaha was destroyed sooner than expected, Port Winston saw heavy use for 8 months — despite being designed to last only 3 months.

In the last two years of the six-team regional format, the eventual CWS champion-( LSU in 1997 and Southern California in 1998 )-had to battle back from the loser's bracket in the regional to advance to Omaha.

It passes through downtown Omaha on parallel one-way streets and runs concurrent with Interstate 480 in Omaha on its last Nebraska segment.

He was then moved west in 1950 to Nebraska, where he lived out the last nine years of his life on a farm near Nebraska City, about 45 miles ( 72 km ) south of the city of Omaha.

Sacramento is the fifth different city to host the team since it last won a title ( Rochester, Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Omaha are the others ).

Beyond the last bridge was Carentan, which the 101st had been ordered to seize to effect a linkup with the 29th Infantry Division coming off Omaha Beach.

Two years ago, one of the school's teams placed third at the national competition in Omaha and last year 2 of the teams qualified for the world championships in Orlando, FL.

In 1949, the ballpark was the last to host the College World Series before Omaha, Nebraska became its permanent address the following year.

UofL is only one of two schools in the last five years to have been to the Final Four, a BCS bowl, and the College World Series in Omaha.

His postwar service included command of Nipsic, Enterprise, and Omaha — the last two on the Asiatic Station — and duty as Commander in Chief of the European Squadron from 1895 to 1898.

Omaha hold ' em ( also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha ) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold ' em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his or her best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards.

The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd, who offered it as a game at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget Casino ( calling it " Nugget Hold ' em ").

Limit Omaha hold ' em 8-or-better is the " O " game featured in H. O. R. S. E.

The original game is also commonly known as " Omaha high ".

In Europe, " Omaha " still typically refers to the high version of the game, usually played pot-limit.

It is often said that Omaha is a game of " the nuts ", i. e. the best possible high or low hand, because it frequently takes " the nuts " to win a showdown.

Even more so than Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, PLO is a game of drawing, if you are drawing, to the nut hand.

Pot Limit Omaha high can also be played with more than four hole cards, the most common variety being six card Omaha which can be found in many casinos across the UK, and five card Omaha is commonly referred as The Big " O ", and is popular in southeastern United States as a home game.

In the original Omaha poker game, players were only dealt two hole cards and had to use both to make a hand combined with community cards .< ref name =" Super System "> Doyle Brunson, < cite > Super System: A course in Power Poker </ cite >, Cardoza Publishing ( 1978 ), ISBN 1-58042-081-8 This version of Omaha is defined in the glossary of Super / System ( under Omaha ) as being interchangeable with " Tight Holdem ".

The " Omaha " part of the name represents this aspect of the game.

On April 16, 2011 the Omaha Storm Chasers played their first game at the newly built Werner Park in the city of Papillion, just south of Omaha.

Official DoD maps included with the game encompass scenes such as the infamous battle at Omaha Beach ( dod charlie ), streetfighting in the Italian city of Salerno during Operation Avalanche ( dod avalanche ), and a Glider mission where the American 101st Airborne lands in a WACO Glider and has to destroy such objectives as a radio antenna and Flak 88 mm gun anti-aircraft gun ( dod glider ).

2006 College World Series Championship game at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Omaha Nighthawks played their 2010 season at Rosenblatt ; Creighton Prep played a football game there as well.

Creighton men's basketball home game, Qwest Center Omaha.