Omaha hi vs. O8 Poll

What is everyone's favorite game between Omaha High & Omaha hi/low split 8 or better. I find O8 much more profitable. I'm talking about 5-10 limit or any other limit, but no Pot-Limit.


Sheck

I'd rather play just high. However, I'd take Omaha Hi/lo with no qualifier over both.

I like the split game but to be honest I've only played one session of high-only and that was on a mixed table (one round of HE, one of Omaha). Flopped Kings full the first hand of Omaha high I ever played, got to check raise the turn and still had four callers with me to the river. I still smile thinking about that pot. Unfortunately that was the only high point of my Omaha-high career.


The appeal of the split game is its complexity which often works to your advantage and the fact that for some players there is something to like in every hand they are dealt. The reduced variance versus the high-only game is also attractive to me--hey I'm no gambler.

I think that high is the more profitable of the two, but hi/lo has much less variance. When playing with truly bad players, I agree with harold: any any is like shooting ducks in a barrel.

High-only limit Omaha is a boring game with a huge variance. You've got very nearly the same profit potential in O/8 with nowhere near the risk to your bankroll.


TRLS

At Paradise Poker it is as easy to start a limit O8 game as it is to start an Omaha High-only game. Hence, the barriers to entry are the same for both games.


Since there are always plenty of Omaha/8 games spread but hardly any Omaha-High games at any given time it would seem that there is a greater demand for O8 games than Omaha-High games (at least on-line).


How many High-Only Omaha games have we seen in Casinos? Of course it is more difficult to get different games started in Brick and Mortar establishments, but still, the only casino I have ever seen spread Omaha High games is Binion's.


CV

You would think the casinos would really push the Hi-only game since it should generate big pots (and rake), and it should have fewer split pots so that it runs faster compared to the Hi-Lo game.

Limit high-only is popular in Louisiana and sometimes rears its ugly head in Mississippi.


One time when I was in Biloxi, the players voted to turn the 4-8 1/2 kill O/8 game to a high-only 5/10 with no kill so we could chase a rather large jackpot. You get in a lot more hands per hour in high only, and there are potentially more jackpot hands in play because you'll get more middle and low pairs calling. But that's about the only reason I would voluntarily play limit Omaha. No, we didn't hit the jackpot.


PLO is a different matter.


TRLS

At Harrah's in New Orleans they spread a half Hold'Em/half Omaha high only game.


The only straight high Omaha game I've played in was also at Binion's.

I like Omaha High because of the action. The game is a highly mathematical and simple game and against poor players is a sure thing in the long run. I find HE to be a good but more difficult game which involves a lot of reading people. HE becomes very difficult at the higher limits.


I think O8 is too slow a game. The game plays slowly because of the split pots and proper play involves playing very few hands. Combined with the slow play, proper play results in very little time spent in the actual playing of hands.


If I were a local, I could see being very patient, but as a tourist, I don't see the point in going to Vegas or whereever, paying for airfares and hotels and wasting my time playing a game like O8.