A high-low split version called " Omaha Hi-Lo ", or sometimes " Omaha eight-or-better " or " Omaha / 8 ", is also played.

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.

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.

* " Omaha ", a song written by Billy Joe Shaver and recorded by Waylon Jennings in his 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes.

* " Omaha ", a song by the indie rock band Tapes ' n Tapes

* " Omaha ", a song by Moby Grape, from their 1967 first album release, Moby Grape

Irish immigrants in Omaha originally moved to an area in present-day North Omaha called " Gophertown ", as they lived in dirt dugouts.

Omaha's most prominent businessman is Warren Buffett, nicknamed the " Oracle of Omaha ", who is regularly ranked one of the richest people in the world.

Songs about Omaha include " Omaha ", by the indie rock band Tapes ' n Tapes ;, " Omaha " by Counting Crows, " Omaha Celebration " by Pat Metheny, " Omaha " sung by Waylon Jennings, " Greater Omaha " by Desaparecidos and "( Ready Or Not ) Omaha Nebraska " by Bowling For Soup.

* Wilner, Frank N, " Understanding the Railway Labor Act ", Omaha, Nebraska, Simmons-Boardman Books 2009, $ 39. 95, ISBN 978-0-911382-59-4.

In 2008, Skip Spence's song " Omaha ", from the first Moby Grape album, was listed as number 95 in Rolling Stones " 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time ".

* Download recording of a courtship song from the Library of Congress ' Omaha Indian Music Collection ; performed by George Miller in 1897, collected by Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche

The intersection of 24th and Lake was the setting of the Big Joe Williams song " Omaha Blues ".

After radio stations in Lincoln and Omaha turned the record into a regional " break-out " hit record, RCA Records signed the duo and rereleased the song nationwide.

The Kiowa adapted their flag song from the Cheyenne, their memorial song and the dance bustle in the O-Ho-Mah Lodge warrior society from the Omaha tribe.

By the end, Pig Pen has fallen so far back, when Rubber Duck is in New Jersey, Pig Pen has only gotten as far as Omaha ( a reference to the headquarters of American Gramaphone, which released the song, and also a reference to the slaughterhouses for which Omaha is famous ).

The Union Pacific-Central Pacific ( Southern Pacific ) mainline followed the historic Overland Route from Omaha, Nebraska to San Francisco Bay.

The Sioux were also expecting a retaliatory raid from the Omaha Indians, to the south.

Category: Actors from Omaha, Nebraska

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* Mal Madrigal, band from Omaha, Nebraska

The Osage, Omaha, Ponca and Kaw lived in the Ohio Valley, but under pressure from the Iroquois to the northeast, migrated west of the Mississippi River to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma in the 1600s.

Omaha Hold ' em gets its name from two types of games.

* Strategy from 1999 World Series of Poker Omaha champion Steve Badger

* Strategy from 2004 World Series of Poker Omaha champion Annie Duke

Van C. Smith, a businessman from Omaha, Nebraska, and his partner, Aaron Wilburn, constructed two adobe buildings in 1869 that began what is now Roswell.

In the experiment, Milgram sent several packages to 160 random people living in Omaha, Nebraska, asking them to forward the package to a friend or acquaintance who they thought would bring the package closer to a set final individual, a stockbroker from Boston, Massachusetts.

The most direct example of the latter is that during the actual landing the 2nd Rangers disembarked from British ships and were taken to Omaha Beach by Royal Navy landing craft ( LCAs ).

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

Being paid by the mile, the railroad built oxbows of extraneous track never venturing further than from Omaha in the railroad's first 2½ years.

On July 4, 1865, the Union Pacific had not gone further than from Omaha — even as the Central Pacific had been working away for 2½ years.

The city of Omaha was established by European Americans from neighboring Council Bluffs who arrived from the Northeast United States a few years earlier.

Other Africans have immigrated to Omaha as well, with one-third from Nigeria, and significant populations from Kenya, Togo, Cameroon and Ghana.

The event occurred after an Omaha Police Department officer was investigating a criminal operation selling goods stolen from the nearby railroad yards.

Let us look in on one of these nerve centers -- SAC at Omaha -- and see what must still happen before a wing of B-52 bombers could drop their Aj.

Currently, Texas hold ' em, Omaha hold ' em and Seven-card stud and their lowball variants are played.

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

During the late 1990s, Omaha became nationally known as the birthplace of Saddle Creek Records, and the subsequent " Omaha Sound " was born from their bands ' collective style.

In the period surrounding World War I Valentin J. Peter encouraged Germans in Omaha to celebrate their rich musical heritage, too.

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.

In 1847 Young led a small, especially picked fast-moving group of men and women from their Winter Quarters encampments near Omaha, Nebraska, and their approximately 50 temporary settlements on the Missouri River in Iowa including Council Bluffs, Iowa.

In 1846 the Mormons, expelled from Nauvoo, Illinois, traversed Iowa ( on part of the Mormon Trail ) and settled temporarily in significant numbers on the Missouri River in Iowa and the future state of Nebraska at their Winter Quarters near the future city of Omaha, Nebraska.

Along their return to Fort Atkinson at the Council Bluff in Nebraska, the commission had successful negotiations with the Ota, the Pawnee and the Omaha.

On Fox Green, at the eastern end of Omaha, four sections of L / 16 had survived their landing intact and were now leading elements of I / 16, K / 16 and E / 116 up the slopes.

As a result of their father's salesmanship, Fred and Adele rapidly landed a major contract and played the famed Orpheum Circuit not only in Omaha but throughout the United States.

Built in 1905, the Gottlieb Storz Mansion in Astaire's hometown of Omaha includes the " Adele and Fred Astaire Ballroom " on the top floor, which is the only memorial to their Omaha roots.

Due to its proximity to Cass County, Iowa, and because both of those counties receive most of their broadcasts from Omaha, Nebraska, references to ' Cass County ' must be frequently disambiguated, or result in confusion.

Due to its proximity to Cass County, Nebraska, and because both of those counties receive most of their broadcasts from Omaha, Nebraska, references to ' Cass County ' must be frequently disambiguated, or result in confusion.

When the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad laid tracks in 1899 and bypassed the town, the townspeople moved themselves and their city to a favorable spot on the railroad line.

Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey said he tried for years to work with Elkhorn, whereby they would not be annexed if they would do no further annexing of their own.

The Storm Chasers were formerly the Omaha Royals ; after 42 years at Rosenblatt Stadium in south Omaha, the team moved out following the 2010 season and changed their nickname.

In October 2007 the US District Court ordered the parties first to take their challenge to the Omaha Tribal Courts, as part of the " tribal exhaustion doctrine " established by federal precedent, and denied the plaintiffs ' request for dismissal.