Is this standard? Or is it more towards $150k-$200k?

Thank you.

Making 10bb/hr is not standard.

I think they mean for a winning player. In which case probably closer to $200k+ among top earners.

Yes, although variance in this game is high so you can run bad for an extended period live even though you are a good player.

Someone told me the king asian dude at my 5/5 PLO game made 230k last year. He owns some restaurants so doesnt seem like the type to lie.

Im mostly a NL reg but this is my 1271 hours of live play in Omaha. And I’m a **** reg that’s looked at a few monker and preflop sims. 6 figs Seems possible

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Insanely hard to make 150k+ consistently at 5/10 - playing 40 hours a week for 50 weeks a year isn't really doable long term imo. I think a more realistic game plan is 20-25 hours a week 50 weeks a year, and even that is a major grind. Poker is too labor intensive and the games are shifting more towards lower edge variants to get more players in - low skilled players want a chance to win and you see that more in say 5 card omaha than in a deepstacked hold em game. I do think though making 100k/yr at poker will also be viable and realistic long term, although 100k doesn't go as far as it use to.

1) I think you mean mentally intensive but that does reflect on your body as well. I really envy those people who seem to play 50+ hours a week and still manage to enjoy themselves.

2) Getting bad players into a "lower edge" game is still going to result in high profitability. If you play PLO like holdem there is going to be a huge amount of variance but for some reason there are still huge crushers at the end of the month/year. New games favor the people who can figure things out themselves over waiting for a training site to tell them how to play it properly. In the case of 5 card PLO most can't even remember all their cards without looking back multiple times a hand so I am not worried about solvers ruining this game since there is just so much more information that needs to be remembered that most aren't capable of doing.

I think one big flaw in your calc may be bb/100 instead of bb/hour.

10bb/hour is possible in live for the true experts. That will lower variance by a lot (especially at end of year) because we are only getting like 15-20 hands an hour in live PLO.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Doesn't plo play around 33% bigger than same stakes of nl?

I never heard this before, but I'd be curious to hear other people's thoughts.

Bigger than 33%, in general ... Obviously min/max buyins matter a lot (and I've seen completely different 1-2 NLHE games based on that) but at the same casino the 2-5 PLO games played bigger than the 5-10 NLHE ones.

It definitely plays bigger - more people to a pot, goes multiway past the flop more often. Any game where equities run closer pots will be bigger outside of limit games.