I'm still pretty new to PLO but am enjoying it. I find it more interesting than Hold Em. Is it generally considered an easier game? I just noticed Annette_15 came third at the Barcelona WPT on her first evertournament entry.

Does that mean Omaha is so much easier than hold em or is this just another fantastic achievment by the young star?

It means that tournament strategies generally trump the strategy of the particular variation you are playing.

this is the Omaha High Low Split forum, separate from PLO.

the pot limit version is referred to as PLO8 not PLO in our case. mods feel free to move.

O8 is a much more difficult game in terms of hand reading.

Let's say UTG raised PF, C-bet OOP on a flop of 348r, and checked a turn suited K. I believe a newbie could consider all of the reasonable hands villain could be holding in a live HE tournament situation. He might make the wrong conclusions about villains range. In O8, nobody could enumerate all of the possible hands that villain can be holding. Even if you guess villain's primary holdings, often the side cards are unknown so you don't know which river cards are bricks in the way that you sometime know in HE.

I loose full ring O8 games, you don't need to read hands that much, and the game reduces to knowing pot odds and recognizing quartering/freeroll situations. This is much easier than FR no-foldem holdem, where bluffing is still quite important.

Effen