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Originally Posted by campfirewest
I think it took a very long time and a lot of videos and books for hold'em to become tough. I don't know that PLO8 will every reach that point where the availability of info will become detrimental. Although increasing the size of the player pool will definitely be a good thing.
nlhe cash has a lot of game theory strategy built on a foundation of math. if you can't understand and implement the game theory part, you'll struggle to do well beyond 1/2 (or so).
big bet o8 cash, however, can generally be played at break even or better with a predominantly math-based strategy. game theory elements are mostly icing on the cake.
i think i can teach an intelligent, analytic, disciplined person how to be a rakeback pro in big bet o8 in one week or less. being a winning player wouldn't be out of the question. i can't say the same for nlhe.
due to this, i think that a really good plo8/nlo8 cash book would be VERY bad for the games. that being said, videos are not equal to books in terms of exhaustiveness, so i don't think we need to worry about pred's videos. furthermore, some (many?) of his videos will be on tourney strategy. for various reasons, i think the tourney videos will actually be good for both the big bet o8 tourney scene AND cash scene.