description Courchevel Hi-Lo Overview
Courchevel Hi-Lo is a five-card Omaha variant that awards the pot to high and low hands when a qualifying low exists. Each player receives five private cards, and the first community card is exposed before the initial betting round; the remaining board cards are dealt afterward. As in Omaha, every final hand must use exactly two hole cards and three community cards, so players must build both high and low possibilities from the same fixed combination rule.
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How does Courchevel Hi-Lo differ from regular Courchevel?
Regular Courchevel plays high-only, while the Hi-Lo version splits the pot between the best high hand and the best qualifying low hand, typically 8-or-better. Like Omaha 8, you must use exactly two of your hole cards and three board cards in each direction.
What is the twist with the exposed first community card in Courchevel?
Each player gets five private cards, and the first community card is dealt face up before the initial betting round, with the rest of the flop coming afterward. Seeing part of the board before acting changes starting-hand selection significantly compared to five-card Omaha.
Why is the poker game called Courchevel?
It is named after Courchevel, the famous ski resort in the French Alps, following poker's tradition of naming games after places. The variant gained wider exposure when PokerStars introduced Courchevel cash games in the mid-2010s.
What starting hands work best in Courchevel Hi-Lo?
Hands that can scoop both halves of the pot are strongest, especially those built around wheel cards like A-2-3 with a suited ace. Since lows split the pot, one-way high-only hands lose a lot of value when three or four low cards hit the board.
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