Join Date: Mar 2016
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Online it depends on what the year, site, rake, limit is. One gets more hands in in NLH and the winrate (per 100 hands) might or/and might not be lower; maybe the hourly (hands per hour) is the same as in PLO with equal skills.
The average stacks can be very deep and the games loose in live games and as so the limits are not the same as they are online where one might or/and might not expect the same hourly with the same blinds.
If there is no rake, PLO is more profitable as one pays more rake in PLO because of the more action that wins more per 100 hands but not necessarily after the rake and could earn less or more depending on the relative rake of the limit.
The deep games in live games and one-tabling might be factors in favour of PLO in live games but one still gets less hands in per hour than in NLH. It also depends on which game is better (looser).
The live NLH games might need more skill compared to loose PLO games where the mere better quality of one's starting hands make money if one is decent post-flop. It is harder to get practise for live PLO games these days playing online PLO, so what's easier isn't clear as so. If the live PLO table is less loose to short-handed, the online PLO skills help more.
