Experience at Texas but newbie at PLO

[3 pairs should be a hand]

Hello eveyone on this part of the forum.
I've been playing texas for a long while now and have dipped my toe into PLO a little bit.

When I started out playing texas there was a great route to gain experience - home games and league games that required little expense. Then even when I began online I utilised play chips prior to depositing.

Now my next project is to add PLO to my itinerary. I want to play catch up as quickly as possible and would welcome suggestions/comments on the best way to proceed.

Play chips is pointless. For texas it was fine as I understood strategy but eg I do a play chips game and 1 player pot opens hand after hand - not really learning anything there.

There is a PLO £3 tourny on FT everynight and I was thinkin of burning money in that to learn the game.

I'm not really up on the good authors on PLO. Which book/books should I get.

Also @drmcboy - should I use beginners section for any future q's or this forum section.

AND can anyone give me a link to discussion on starting hands. Eg Sklansky has a grid in his book scoring starting hands according to strentgh (as far as I remember it as I don't have the book to hand).

I've just looked at one of my old books by Phil Hellmuth "Play poker like the pros" - Phil has done his usual half arsed job. He lists the top 26. Well done Phil there's over 250000.

Any other advice most welcome. ty

[meeloche]

I would suggest micro stakes cash games online. You're cash game skills transfer easily to tournaments and being proficient in cash games would allow you to play home games and good casino cash games when they run. You'll also be able to play more hands and learn faster online compared to live.

[drmcboy]

http://www.flopturnriver.com/pokerfo...cs-149392.html

[3 pairs should be a hand]

cheers 4 the idea re cash would u say that is a better way 2 go than the tourny?

Dumb q but I don't do ring. What stake wud u suggest so that I can sit down deep enough to get enough of a game at a good enough standard?

I'm thinkin 100bb and something comparable to what would be the tourny expenditure. Would .1/.2 be ok? I don't wanna play a table of mentalists. is there much diff from .2 to .4 or is the difference micro .

Not gonna BR it just yet, that seems pointless just want to make part of my playing day / week to play PLO to catch up.

Is the difference in cash to tourny the same in PLO as it is in texas or is the game much more similar?

ta D will have a look see when i get the chance

[TLR]

There is a big difference between cash and tourneys, simply because in most tourneys the stacks are shallow pretty quickly, that being said I think tourneys are a good way to learn the game since you get to play relatively more for a relatively lower investment until you peak up the game

Google for Omaha point count system for starting hand selection, it is a far from perfect method but it can give you a pretty decent idea of which hands are worth playing.

[3 pairs should be a hand]

Nice 1 TLR. esp 4 the google suggestion.

I wasn't so sure about ring, I don't even do ring texas.

I'm going to follow the advice of a friend of mine, winning player now in PLO and play the daily $3 on FT - seen as that is where I will be trying to have a +roi anyway.

That $3 is other people's money anyway!!