[Big Dave D]

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Briefly, in NLHE a tight player can be ground up by loose good players simply because in that game, you just don't hit enough flops that hard, ergo tight players, especially weak ones, never really know where they are. And even tight aggresive ones may not get paid off enough.

The reason why PLO better suits tight play, especially when the game as a whole is very loose, is that he can play a wider variety of high % hands than in NL, and is more likely to hit flops with them. Note we are not comparing apples to apples here. A tight NL guy is probably well below 20, if not 10% preflop. In PLO he's probably at 25%.

Or another way, a loose good player will often find himself in situations where he is a small favourite, but no more. These add to his winrate, but juice up his SD, as he will miss a lot of them too. A tight player simply will not be in those spots. He gets less variance, but pays for it with a reduced win rate, unless his game is very very loose.

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