50-50 PLO sit n go
11-23-2015
, 05:00 PM
Welcome to 2+2! 
I think it's better not to waste time on learning a poker variant that doesn't run at stakes high enough where one can make a decent living. As they say, follow the fish - learn poker formats that your prey likes playing.
Hence, if you want to play with 4 cards, learn cash games or, if you fail there, MTTs.
GL!
I think it's better not to waste time on learning a poker variant that doesn't run at stakes high enough where one can make a decent living. As they say, follow the fish - learn poker formats that your prey likes playing.
Hence, if you want to play with 4 cards, learn cash games or, if you fail there, MTTs.
GL!
11-24-2015
, 05:06 AM
I understand your point, but how many tables and and what stakes are you able to get going? If e.g. all you can get is one $7 and two $3.5s going, you'll be earning less than $10 an hour even if you have a spectacular ROI of 20%.
Whereas even if you grind $2 PLO jackpots on the WPN instead, at 6 tables at a time (at least that many are possible to get at US peak hours, i.e. at British night), with an ROI of 10-15% post-rakeback (there's not much data on what ROIs are possible there, with the <40 bb stacks, but I do see that even regs are exploitable there and there's zero theory about them too), you'll be getting a bit more than $10 an hour just due to the sheer volume that the format can provide you with. But again, that format is very niche too, it doesn't run at the $10 buy-in level at all
(otherwise I wouldn't be looking for anything else). That's partly because NLHE jackpots (a clone of Expressos / Spin & Gos) are yet soft enough and no one is feeling a need to invest learning effort into PLO.
I'm arrogant enough to avoid games where I think my hourly winrate would be <$20, even though I hate the games that I 'have' to play. You can probably earn more if you load WPN jackpots as the main game and mix as many Fifty50s and HU hypers in as you can get running at all.
The big problem with such kind of 'specialities' is that almost no one feels confident playing these, hence the games just don't run; whereas, in poker formats with some existing theory, an 'aspiring reg' can read a chart, become 'confident' and start playing - and losing because the game can't be solved by a chart. Pretty every fish deems himself an NLHE 'expert', and there are a lot of cash PLO 'experts' as well.
Whereas even if you grind $2 PLO jackpots on the WPN instead, at 6 tables at a time (at least that many are possible to get at US peak hours, i.e. at British night), with an ROI of 10-15% post-rakeback (there's not much data on what ROIs are possible there, with the <40 bb stacks, but I do see that even regs are exploitable there and there's zero theory about them too), you'll be getting a bit more than $10 an hour just due to the sheer volume that the format can provide you with. But again, that format is very niche too, it doesn't run at the $10 buy-in level at all
(otherwise I wouldn't be looking for anything else). That's partly because NLHE jackpots (a clone of Expressos / Spin & Gos) are yet soft enough and no one is feeling a need to invest learning effort into PLO.I'm arrogant enough to avoid games where I think my hourly winrate would be <$20, even though I hate the games that I 'have' to play. You can probably earn more if you load WPN jackpots as the main game and mix as many Fifty50s and HU hypers in as you can get running at all.
The big problem with such kind of 'specialities' is that almost no one feels confident playing these, hence the games just don't run; whereas, in poker formats with some existing theory, an 'aspiring reg' can read a chart, become 'confident' and start playing - and losing because the game can't be solved by a chart. Pretty every fish deems himself an NLHE 'expert', and there are a lot of cash PLO 'experts' as well.
Last edited by coon74; 11-24-2015 at 05:22 AM.