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Old 11-08-2004, 02:39 PM
Guy McSucker Guy McSucker is offline
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Since the top 10% of hands in Omaha perform so much better than average hands. As compared to holdem, where the top 10% of hands perform only slightly better than average hands.


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That's probably the case for Omaha high/low, but for high only I disagree.

AA in Hold'em is a monster. KK, QQ, JJ and AK are huge too. There are no five hands in Omaha which have this much edge over the rest.

Having said that, I'm still not convinced that the variance in PLO with restricted buyins is bigger than in limit hold'em. It's big, but is it really that big?

It's certainly a swingier game than PLHE or NLHE against comparable opponents, though. Capped buy-in NLHE against poor opposition is a license to print money with almost no risk.

Guy.
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Old 11-09-2004, 06:38 PM
Beavis68 Beavis68 is offline
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Have you played PLO much YADS?

the really huge hands don't come along often, an even with AAJ10DS or AAKKDS, the wrong flop will turn it to dog meat, it is also a lot harder to get it heads-up pre-flop very often in PLO. Also, the monster hands to not come along very often in PLO. IT is pretty hard to get a 90% favorite hand in PLO.

You will lose your entire stack frequently, and you will win 2-4x your stack much more often than you will in Texas Hold'em.
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