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Originally Posted by PokerStars Steve
Overview
PLO Rake
While players use bb/100 to measure impact of rake on their winnings, bb/100 is not the correct way to compare rake between games. I've discussed this previously at length, so I will not belabor the point.
Our Supernovas do at least as well after rewards at PLO as they do at other games. Plenty of players are winning, and Supernova+ VIPs on average are doing just fine However, due to rake adding up to more bb/100, rewards are a bigger component of winning PLO players' earnings in bb/100. This means that players with low VIP statuses are having a harder time in PLO because VIP status has a bigger impact on results.
fwiw as a small-stakes player (both holdem and omaha) do you actually realise how much more challenging it is to achieve Supernova+ at PLO than NLHE?
In holdem there are a billion tables running right now at 50c/$1, maybe 15 total at PLO. Then there's the fact that I'm learning PLO, it's more complex preflop, has way more postflop play and there's simply no way your average player can play as many tables as they can play equivalent at NL. Especially when they're trying to learn the game. Add in the higher variance and it's no wonder plenty of players aren't hanging around.
Amazingly rake would fix this. Specifically at small stakes. Even if nowhere else. people move up from micros because of the overall poor player base. Then they get stuck in no-man's land battling the rake and a considerably tougher player pool at SS.
If you reduce rake across PLO50 and PLO100, suddenly guys are moving up more regularly. The midstakes guys are happy because fish like me are now sitting them. They're pillaging my BR and then moving up to 10/20 games to donate there. The natural order is restored.
You currently have a black hole at small stakes which is your entry level to being serious about poker and actually making a living from it, as well as a natural feeder system for the bigger games. While that remorseless rake devouring machine exists at those levels this game is going nowhere long term.