Seven card stud or pot limit omaha
 

I'm currently very interested in learning a new poker game and is caught in between 7 card stud or pot limit omaha. I'm wondering which game is easier to learn and master. It would be a bonus if you can tell me why you choose one over the other. Thanks for your help

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I chose PLO because I like it more than stud.

Stud might be easier in the beginning, but both games are hard to master.

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It's really going to come down to personal preference. Ask this in the stud forum and I'm sure they will tell you about Stud, I say PLO [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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If you are a winning NLHE or PLHE player, PLO will be very easy to pick up. I have only been playing PLO for a month and have already become a consistent winner. Not only that, I am winning at a much higher rate than I did playing NLHE.

I suggest you play both with play money for a little while and see which you like more.

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I believe that playing Holdem can be a draw back at first, since the hand values are quite inflated in Omaha. You see nut straights, nut flushes, and full houses way more in Omaha than Holdem, and consistently calling with or raising TPTK would make you the biggest sucker at almost every table you sit at. You also see big hands lose often. If a third card to a suit falls in Holdem, your nut straight will often be good. In Omaha, it will usually be beaten. Same for your flush when the river pairs the board. If you do a little study and can make these adjustments quickly (as well as get a sense of starting hand values) then you will do fine coming from holdem.

The mechanics are much the same, so blinds, position, recognizing the nuts, etc will be pretty easy though (although remember AK52 doesn't have a full house on a KKTT3 board since you must play exactly 2 hole cards). This is where learning Omaha will be easiest. In stud you have to deal with an entirely new betting structure (antes and bring ins), position depending on high hand showing, extra betting rounds, remembering dead cards, and the fact that hands can be more concealed (your opponent can make a boat or quads and have no pair showing on his board).

I think your winrate figures to be much better in PLO than limit stud, which is the only version of stud I have played. Therefore, I play much more PLO than I do stud.

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I think PLO is the game of the future. Just look at the World Series of Poker, there are more and bigger PLO games than stud. I think stud is also harder to start winning at. It is easier to start winning at PLO but very difficult to become an expert. However, stud is a great game and will improve your other games (cross training effect).

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Although I don't think plo is the game of the future (which it has been for the past 25 years) I think a hold'em player could adjust to it better than stud, because they both use community cards. Before playing plo though you should just play limit omaha hi to get use to the game.I would suggest playing many play money sngs, because that's how I got good at omaha. However, I personally suggest learning both. To me being a great poker player is the ability to play all the games. However, I enjoy omaha better, because I don't have to memorize cards and there are alot more fish then in the stud games.

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I think if the goal is to improve your general poker game then it's 7stud. Learning a non-flop game can help you take it to the next level.