Perhaps a dumb theory question....

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A lot of it for me is that odds are so complicated to calculate, and alot of players so donkish that I just don't want to have my A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] running into a 8[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]J[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] board and being like wtf mate with like 20% of my stack already in the middle.

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I wouldn't mind this one bit. Many times you will move in on the flop and be called by a worse flush draw with a worse backkdoor low and rarely is someone seeing a flop in a raised pot with 88 or J8 (and if they are then I know my money will be coming back soon enough), so you don't have to worry too much about being totally killed. There are 2 fairly successful ways to play PLO8 at the low limits, you can nut peddle and win small pots and hit the eventual score when a total sucker pays you off or you can try to push edges and play a higher variance style (like Wintermute, Ribbo and others here try to play). I think the latter style will be most profitable (especially at higher limits where nut peddlers don't get paid off as much). I would probably push all in on the given flop 100% of the time if I could with my AA25, if someone moves in ahead of me, then I have to worry a bit.