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 Counting Crows song from their 1994 album August and Everything After

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

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 Ladies of SKC, Northland Noise SG, Omaha Boys and others have gained many supporters and have been officially recognized by Sporting KC.

The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in 1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.

In Omaha hold ' em, if the board is, 5 ♠ 6 ♠ A ♣ 9 ♠ < font color = red > 5 ♥</ font >, any player with 2-3 makes the nut-low hand, 6-5-3-2-A, while a player with 2-4 makes the second-nut-low hand, 6-5-4-2-A ( the nut-high hands remain the same as in Texas hold ' em, in this case 7 ♠ 8 ♠ to make a straight flush, although one can go as low as aces full by introducing quads and straight flush blockers ).

In particular, the sequence depicting the Omaha landings was voted the " best battle scene of all time " by Empire magazine and was ranked number one on TV Guide's list of the " 50 Greatest Movie Moments ".

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 ).

Omaha: published by the author.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

* Council Bluffs / Omaha proposed by Thomas C. Durant via an extension of his proposed Mississippi and Missouri Railroad via the new Union Pacific Railroad.

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.

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.

* Omaha, an album by Swedish singer Ulf Lundell

The battle for Schmidt cost 6, 184 U. S. casualties — compared with about 3, 000 casualties suffered by the landing forces at Omaha Beach.

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

Six years after the Greek Town Riot, in 1915, a Mexican immigrant named Juan Gonzalez was killed by a mob near Scribner, a town in the Greater Omaha metropolitan area.

This tension culminated in the cause célèbre trial of the Rice / Poindexter Case, in which an Omaha Police Department officer was killed by a bomb while answering an emergency call.

The single was produced by Omaha producer J Keez.

Omaha has been featured in recent years by a handful of relatively big budget motion pictures.

In addition to the five Douglas Theatres venues in Omaha, two more are opening, including Midtown Crossing Theatres, located on 32nd and Farnam Streets by the Mutual of Omaha Building.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.