Up and down the country and all across the world, people are playing No-limit Hold'em, ‘The Cadillac of poker', but another game's popularity is on the rise. That game is Pot-limit Omaha.

The consensus on the internet forums and chat rooms is that Hold'em is quickly becoming a solved game.

With hundreds of books and dozens of training sites now available to players, the standard of play, even at the lowest possible stakes, has increased drastically - making it more difficult to make money.

Professionals and amateurs alike have started to look outside of Hold'em for their poker fix in the hope they will find softer games, where they will have a greater edge over their opponents.

Their first port of call is usually the Pot-limit Omaha tables, the increasingly popular cousin of No-limit Hold'em.

Top players such as Sammy Farha and Dave ‘Devil Fish' Ulliott state Omaha as their game of choice due to the increased gambling factor associated with it.

Omaha is very similar to Hold'em, except each player is dealt four ‘hole cards' instead of two and they must use exactly two of these cards, along with three of the five community cards to make the best five-card poker hand.

Whilst Hold'em has 169 distinct starting hands, Omaha has an astonishing 16,432, which leads to more action, more mistakes and ultimately bigger pots.

One player who hopes the latest Omaha craze continues to bring in fresh players is the 2007 WSOPE Pot-Limit Omaha champion, Dario ‘Ryu' Alioto.

Before winning a coveted bracelet and £234,390 at the WSOPE, Italian Alioto had cashed twice in Omaha events, including one final table, at the 37th Annual WSOP in Las Vegas for total winnings of $55,896.

At the time of writing, Alioto has continued his amazing run at the World Series this year by cashing a further four times, twice in Omaha and twice in Deuce to Seven Lowball Draw, for a $253,284 purse - perfect preparation for his WSOPE title defence in September.

With Omaha now receiving more coverage than ever before in magazines and on television, it is only a matter of time before the masses flock to play it - but whether it takes over from Hold'em as the most popular card game, only time will tell.