Is Omaha H/L better than HE for clearing a bonus?

[SuitedSixes]

I've enjoyed learning O8 to break up the hours of HE. If the pots are bigger, there will be more raked hands, so isn't this a pretty good alternative for bonus whoring? Anybody have any figures of raked hands / hr vs HE?

[MelchyBeau]

there will be less hands per hour in O/8 than HE, also the variance in O/8 will be greater than HE.

Melch

[Sheriff Fatman]

I recently played a mixture of limit O8 and PLO as a bonus clearing exercise recently in order to mix things up a bit and found that the additional limpers lead to a higher percentage of raked hands compared to limit Hold Em.

I did find that the games ran slower and there were fewer hands per hour so I'm not convinced that there is any significant advantage.

However, as a way to break up the monotony, I'd highly recommend it.

Sheriff

[jon_keck]

I'd say it's around .8 the raked hands/hr of hold'em (full ring - 6max is much closer).

A much higher % are raked, but you're getting significantly fewer deals/hr.

[Yads]

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the variance in O/8 will be greater than HE.


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Have you even played O8?

[AncientPC]

No, because HE hands/hr > O8B hands/hr. Plus in my experience, it's been more difficult to multitable O8B than HE but that could just be since I'm an O8B newbie.

[MrBlueNose]

On the same lines, when clearing Paradise GRANNY I did 7CS, then switched to 7CS Hi/Lo. At .50/1 you have (a) 8 out of 10 hands raked, (b) no antes meaning you can just ohh so wait and pick your spots and (c) people who can't play, and will refuse to fold a pair of aces, even if their opponent is raising them every street with 89TJ of diamonds showing(a pleasant memory).