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06-20-2007, 10:52 PM
Post subject: PLO8: Wow! Is it always this easy?
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Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 250
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I can't believe it - I just finished 3rd for $70 in a 56 person $11 PLO8 tounament. (Ongame)
Nothing great about that you may think, but get this: I have never even played the game before!
My Omaha Hi experience is limited to about 2 hours cash plus 3 small tournies and I registered for this tourney at the last minute before realising it was Hi/Lo 
I quickly opened up an online guide via the sticky in this forum and worked out a starting hand strategy while playing the first few orbits. I consider myself to be a reasonable texas tourney player so have a pretty good idea about modifying my game as the tourney progresses and tried to apply this to the Omaha 8 game with some success.
I think the main reason for my success was that the majority of the players were truly awful! Even though this was my first time playing this game it was easy to see that loads of people were completely clueless. Loads of times I saw people gambling on making the low hand with their A3KJ when the flop was something like QQ8!
My question to those of you who regularly play these games - Are they generally fishier than texas games? It certainly looks that way from what I saw tonight. |I think I will definitely be giving this another try very soon as I had a good time too 
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bigspenda73
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Straight Flush
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pwnsylvania
Posts: 7,545
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Yea, I read a blog from the WSOP Omaha8b this year and the player said it was more important to be a good tourney player than a good Omaha 8b player.
The game is played so incorrectly by so many people. I myself have not logged more than 5k hands at this game and have done it at fixed limit (not PL or NL) but the game is very beatable even without a vast knowledge or understanding of it. PF decision making is a huge must.
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salsa4ever
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Full House
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 1,073
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Originally Posted by bigspenda73
Yea, I read a blog from the WSOP Omaha8b this year and the player said it was more important to be a good tourney player than a good Omaha 8b player.
The game is played so incorrectly by so many people. I myself have not logged more than 5k hands at this game and have done it at fixed limit (not PL or NL) but the game is very beatable even without a vast knowledge or understanding of it. PF decision making is a huge must.
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I've played 3 multi table tourneys on stars
came 5th, 2nd, and missed the cash by a few spots on my last one when my KQ with 2 clubs and nut low draw lost against KQ with 2 diamonds and no low draw on a A7TJ board with 2 clubs and 2 diamonds... I was in 2nd place and lost all chips to the chip leader.
I stopped playing tourneys because it's nothing like O8. The first 3 rounds bear some semblance to 08, but after that it's just choosing hands and potting it pre-flop which basically leaves you committed. So it becomes a pre flop game, and 08 is not a pre flop game. So yeah, it's pretty easy, but as a genuine 08 player, I hate the format. If there was a big guaranteed with overlay, sure, but otherwise I'll just crush the 200 and 400PL games.
One day I'll write a guide to 08
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