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Originally Posted by Havax
It's incredibly different. 5 card is pure cancer.
I'm guessing in more quantitative terms, this means 5 card raises the variance substantially? Which I suppose provides the explanation for why the demand for this game is higher than 4-card.
I, too, preferred the 4-card as I felt like there was more decision making on the later streets. In my limited observation, the successful 5-card player at MDL will:
1) See lots of cheap flops (<10BB)
2) Jam with > ~30% equity (wraps+sets, etc.)
You will nearly always be called - so have a big bankroll ready.
Is this a better "poker" game? Not sure, but it can probably be fun if you have the bankroll tolerance and patience. I seem to have neither, so I'm a relatively tight fish. In 4-card, I'd feel like I could tell if I played well (good or bad result.) In 5-card, I almost always feel like I played poorly or have no idea, and I either got lucky or I didn't!
I suspect that if enough people from these boards banded together, you could get a 4-card game going 1 night a week. And you'd promptly stop playing because it would be the nittiest, most boring game in the joint. (We tried some months back with a 1-1 PLO starter game - lasted a few weeks and was good due to the low stakes, but fizzled anyway. For the record, Mike at MDL fully supported spreading this as we asked.)