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Originally Posted by Rin-Inky
Typical live player isn't rolled for the games they play in anyway, so it's moot. You can never be "rolled" for a game if you are a losing player.
The problem is that a 5/5 PLO game plays at least as big as a 5/T NL and player who wouldn't think of jumping into that 5/T are willing to play that 5/5 and go broke faster.
It's bad for live poker rooms when a player who would occupy a seat and pay rake for five hours in hold em blows that money in less than an hour at PLO.
Poker rooms would probably be better off trying to limit the size of PLO games by not allowing button straddles and not allowing re-straddles unless they have the player pool to support regular PLO games at multiple stakes. And maybe if they can run 1/2(/5) and 5/T PLO in the same room, they should discourage the existence of a 5/5 game in between.
If I wanted to analyze the growth in PLO's popularity, I would probably look at the growth of PLO tournaments. I have noticed that the daily deep stacks at the WSOP this summer will include a weekly PLO tournament. The ability for such a tournament to exist suggests that PLO is growing.