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PLO8 - you asked, you got......
Many players have repeatedly asked for some 2p-4p PLO8 Cash Tables, as they are ideal as a learing tool for the wonderful game of PLO8, aka "Omaha Hi-Lo".
Well they are here now, effective immediately.
If anyone fancies some low-cost PLO8 cash, I'll open or join some tables this evening.
If you plan to join in, post on this thread please, so I can gauge how many are interested.
Any PLO8 questions, fire away on this thread, & I'm sure you'll get plenty of good advice from the more experienced PLO8 players.
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I've been experimenting with PLO8 on the DYM tables recently.
Is the play similar with cash as i don't normally play cash?
May pop in later for a few hands.
Cheers
If only there was somebody we knew who had cashed in a WSOP PLO8 event!
1) Ideally, you want to only play SCOOP hands, hands which have the possibility to SCOOP. A "SCOOP" is BOTH pots, High & Low.
2) There are a LOT more good "Low" starting hands, but remember, most of the time you are only going to get half the pot with the low. There may not even BE a low. If you keep calling for Lows, eventually you will lose all your money. Faced with a "one-way" hand, go for the High rather than the Low - there is ALWAYS a High Hand, every single hand. There is sometimes a Low hand.....
3) A LOT of hands in PLO8 look nice pre-flop. After the flop, most look like I do first thing in the morning. Horrible. Try NOT to play too many hands, it will cost you money if you do.
4) "Naked" Aces. Say, A-A-10-6, "no suits". These are very hard to play at Low Limits, especially out of position. Raisde UTG, & you may well get FIVE callers, as our raise size is limited to "POT". TRy playing that down the streets, unless you catch your set. It is almost certain that the other two Aces are "out", hence them all calling with Low drawing hands, or Nut-suited hands. One pair is rarely good enough, it has to improve.
5) Limping pre - up to a point - is OK in PLO8 with nut drawing hands, but don't overdo it. I would think it unlikely that you will get more than 2 playable hands (on average) per Orbit. Better to open several Tables, to keep interested, than just keep calling with bad hands.
Good luck, & maybe see some of you later.
Finally, remember point # 1. You will make a profit - or not - ONLY by winning "scoops". THIS IS CRUCIAL.
Please.
Cashed in TWO WSOP PLO8 Events, from three played. But still struggling to make a profit in PLO8 on Sky Poker.....
so no one card flushes or straights
I may join u later for some fun
Yes, Aces play as low as well as high. A wheel is the low nuts.
3) A LOT of hands in PLO8 look nice pre-flop. After the flop, most look like I do first thing in the morning. Horrible. Try NOT to play too many hands, it will cost you money if you do.
Remember, people can have a low, a high, or a bad one of both. "2nd nuts both ways" are certain to call. People can call VERY light, as either end might be good. Three way, on a high/low Board, it is near impssible to get a bluff through, & remember, you canot shove all-in - it is POT LIMIT.
It gets around 25 runners so would be great if we could get more and then maybe one day have a bigger buy in omaha hi/lo mtt.
With a large amount of split pots. Do you find the rake taken becomes to high to play cash games?
is their any hands worth calling preflop which don't contain more than one low card.
One key point I didn't see mentioned before (it may have been and I missed it but I'll say again it's important)
Flushes and Straights do not score in Lo hands.
Hence...
The nut low hand is 54321 (a 5 lo hand)
Unfortunately I tried playing a few PLO games before I worked that one out!