[PokrLikeItsProse]

I am speaking as someone who doesn't play higher than 3/6 on-line.

After being successful at Omaha/8, I followed some fish over to Stud/8 and I seem to be reasonably successful mainly because I avoid chasing bad lows or betting/raising against a made low that is freerolling me for high and because I can eek out some extra bets in multi-way pots when I have half the pot sewn up.

I still have yet to find much success at straight stud high (probably because I haven't read any books on the subject), which I first tried after playing stud/8.

So, I think that for low limits, it is possible to play hi/low first. At higher limits, you probably need to know how to play regular stud high because you get occasions when no one has a low, because people usually don't start with hands like (T3)2 rainbow for multiple bets on 3rd or chase with a low-only hand if they brick on 4th.