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Originally Posted by Abbaddabba
Stud tends to have the fewest split pots of all games. Maybe you should start grinding that?
The reason 08 is less lucrative isn't because the rake is higher than in PLO - which if it is, it isn't by that much. The reason it's not lucrative is because there are basically no games running ever and when they do for stakes that matter it's 1 fish and 5 regs.
Lol. This is just nonsense. And is completely irrelevant.
Firstly, just to get it out the way that I've played and still play hundreds of thousands of hands of O8 and every Stud game, for years. (In regards to your silly suggestion. More than you. I do know what I'm talking about.)
Secondly, that's still just wrong. It doesn't matter, you can either have a very soft table with 5 spots, or a table with just 1 spot, but either way in a split-pot game you are still making less money as a winning player, because of many of the pots being split. Your ability to win money is reduced, just logically.
Especially if you want to factor in things like far more flops are seen in O8 than in NLHE. If every one of those flops are raked then the overall rake is just going to be higher and more difficult to beat.
This was evidently seen in something like how grinding O8 cash used to be great for rake races, rakeback and VIP points achievements, because you pay so much more in rake.
There are some places that do acknowledge this, and actually have a lower rake for O8 than LHE for example.
How often games run is a function of infinite other, mostly unrelated things. PLO is just a more popular game. That's separate.
Though the way that it does relate is that with the rake being as high it is, fewer cash games run online than they would otherwise, because people know that it's tougher/sometimes impossible to beat (unless the field is very soft, but that's why regs are rarely going to battle).
Obviously my saying 95% of pots split was an exaggeration. It was just an example to try and logically demonstrate to you how more pots being split means lower winrate capabilities.