PLO8 Online Cash Games (Research & Review)

FeliciaLee · #1 07-18-2005, 01:48 PM

Here is the research I promised on my experiment with PLO8.

I'm not going to copy and paste it all here because it is so long. I'll just provide links. I have no ads on my site, so don't assume I'm trying to lure you there, lol [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Part One
Part Two

Hope this helps someone out!

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Worrots · #2 07-18-2005, 03:15 PM

Felicia,

This looks interesting, thanks for sharing it.

Jim Kuhn · #3 08-03-2005, 12:51 AM

Felicia,

Congrats to 2+2 for making you a moderator. The Omaha/8 forum will be a much better forum under your watchful eye!

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
Catfish4u
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FeliciaLee · #4 08-03-2005, 02:04 PM

Thanks, Jim!

Dick Danger · #5 08-03-2005, 02:11 PM

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From Steve Bagder

PLO8 is not a game to focus a lot of your longterm attention on as a player because if any game is NOT the game of the future, this is it.

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I thought this was kinda interesting, anyone else feel like PLO8 is dead or dying?

Wintermute · #6 08-03-2005, 02:21 PM

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anyone else feel like PLO8 is dead or dying?

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I know I sure do--the game is hardly worth playing anymore. You can tell just by looking through the recent history of this forum that nobody plays let alone makes money at this game.

FeliciaLee · #7 08-03-2005, 02:24 PM

Sarcasm meter [ON]?

I think maybe he was mainly speaking of live games? I know that O8 isn't really popular in southern California anyway, but I've never seen PLO8 spread, not even during the big tourneys at Commerce.

Once I saw a game at Binion's, right after the 2004 series. I believe it was 5/10 blinds, big game. I've never seen it since.

Anyone else see it live?

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Dick Danger · #8 08-03-2005, 01:46 AM

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Hope this helps someone out!

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Most neato.

Drizztdj · #9 08-03-2005, 09:31 AM

Full Tilt's PLO8 and NLO8 games seem very live, I'll play a little more this week and let ya know [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Ribbo · #10 08-03-2005, 01:46 PM

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Basically my problem is that I didn't like it enough to seek out good games. And that is the krux with PLO8. Good games are fleeting and sometimes tough to find. It is a situation of constantly hitting & running. Table selection is of utmost importance. Playing for hours got too frustrating for me, because I was constantly having to seek out good games, on different sites. A game would start out great, with over 75% seeing the flop, and large pots for the buy-in, then quickly become unplayable (like within 5-15 minutes

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Just not true. As someone who has played the games daily for a good 4 years online I disagree strongly. Bad players do not often know they are bad, instead they see themselves as "unlucky". It was unlucky that someone had ace high flush, it was unlucky that they missed their big draw to half a pot, it was unlucky they won a quarter. These players rebuy a lot, so long as no-one is out there to give them a rubdown when they do get lucky.
Staying at the same table is indeed the secret, by accumulating a large stack you skew the pot size average for the table. On the times I've made 15x original buyin, and start shoving, the pot average can reach 4x the usual. This brings good and bad alike to the table all wanting some of the action, but more importantly they all believe it's a loose table. When the table is loose, you have to loosen up also......
Sitting in the same game for hours is great, if you stick to party poker this is quite managable.