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Originally Posted by Dilly_
Out of curiosity why would you and others prefer that?
I can't speak for others, but these are my thoughts---
With the ability to open raise to 8-9BB pre in PLO, it's essentially as if someone 3bet preflop when the action is on you. Unlike NL, there is little to no fold equity preflop once someone open raises, so you're not incentivized to try and "resteal" the pot pre (especially if there are shortstacks at the table). In my opinion, this format does not incentivize people to fight for the pot when someone raises in front of you and you have 0 invested (and even the .5BB/1BB) unless you have a strong hand. On Runitonce, where you are forced to play normal condition raise caps, you now have a lot of incentive to enter the pot with much more speculative holdings due to the pot odds you are getting from the dead money. More "poker" is going to be played rather than ramp the pot pre with good hands and have the hand play itself if a flop is even seen.
I think the way global has it currently set up is definitely ok if everyone was playing deep 200-300+ BB stacks, but with some players being shortstacked and most being around 100 it's not a great structure. Just my opinion and I'm sure others will disagree with me.