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I def. don't recommend letting PLO8 be your introduction to H/L games. There's too much else going on if you're not already a solid PLO player. I recommend playing 7-stud H/L until you really understand the opening ranges and their purpose.
PLO is a different game than NLHE.
Being an excellent NLHE player is a positive sign that you are capable of the type of reasoning and discipline needed to be good at PLO, but it's not a requisite or a guarantee.
Understanding ranges is far more complex in PLO... 4 cards instead of 2 means that there are a lot more combos to understand and play. Unfortunately, those combos don't fit into a nice square grid like 2 card hands do.
River ranges to call a big bet are equally frustrating when you transition from NLHE to PLO. Having the 2nd nuts might as well be a pure bluff when there's a b/r on the river. Calling with the 3rd nuts or worse is probably going to be a loss against most players. That amplifies the discipline you need to succeed at PLO.
It's hard to convince yourself that if you have the nuts OTT you should be betting big and raising a ton, but w/o a solid redraw for the river, you can often find that your turn nuts has turned into a middling hand OTR... and you have to fold after you've committed so much to the pot on the previous street. Was it wrong to bet/raise OTT? Prob. no. You had the nuts. You were forcing Villain to pay for his draw. Unless his draw was so strong that he was still getting a good price, then bet/raise was the correct play.
This makes for a very high variance game that will require hundreds of thousands of hands to establish a baseline of performance on your part. It can take years to even know whether or not you're a winning player. For me, this sounds like pure hell. Other people find it ridiculously exciting and worth it.
I'd say there's little to lose if you play a few sessions at the lowest stakes and try to play super-conservatively, acknowledging that your current skills are super-weak.
If it's exciting and fun, then keep it up. If it seems like a roller coaster from hell, then stop.
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