I'm learning PLO with the intention of playing PLO/8 (all of my books are PLO).

I have every book by HWANG: Big Play Strategy & 1/2/3 Advanced PLO.

How easy will it be to adjust to PLO/8? Will I have to unlearn anything?

It seems, from reviews, like all of the good PLO/8 books are fixed limit poker (Andy Mack, Ray Zee).

With an understanding of PLO, could I read a FLO/8 book and adjust to pot limit or should I find a book that is specifically PLO/8?

And, to add a random speculative question =), what do you think of adding a spit card to PLO/8? I'm not a fan of 5/6 card Omaha but it seems like a spit card would liven up the table with more preflop action.

PLO8 Revealed by Dan Deppen might be the best PLO8 book

I don't know.

I don't know.

And if I don't know the answers to your questions, then they must not be beginner questions. Therefore, I'll move your post with the responses to a separate thread. Maybe you'll get some better responses in a separate thread.

I remember playing dealer's choice in a friend's family garage when I was still enrolled in high school. One of the guys in our group, a particularly bad poker player, liked to deal "spit." (Five card draw with all cards the same rank as the "spit" card wild). I remember thinking, "What a stupid game." But since the idiot who dealt it every time it was his deal absolutely relished the game and was a regular contributor, I never said a word. I'm probably prejudiced from that early experience.

• 1. By "spit" do you mean ending up with a six card board?
If so, would the extra card could be added to the flop when the first player to declared "spit" while the flop was being dealt, or if nobody said "spit" as an addendum after the first three cards of the flop were dealt... or could there be two turn or two river cards if nobody declared "spit" earlier than the turn? Or if nobody declared "spit" would there only be five board cards?
• 2. Or by "spit" do you mean the order in which the cards were dealt to the players be disrupted by the "spit" card being dealt (out of order) to become part of the flop?
• 3. Or by "spit" do you mean all cards the same rank as the spit card would be wild? (And if they're wild, is it always, or just in aces, straights and flushes, or just in aces, straights, flushes and lows).

Meh. I like five-card Omaha-8 (but no more so than four-card Omaha-8). One of the last things I want to do in either game, especially if played pot-limit, is liven up the table with more pre-flop action.

But to each his/her own.

Buzz

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@ op, if u r not a dumb ass, and are proficient at plo and flo8, you'll do just fine in plo8, assuming proper game selection.

By "spit card" I meant dealing the first flop card preflop as in Courchevel.

@d3 fact0, as I am living in the United States, my options for game selection are reduced to Motor City or MGM Detroit (or Greektown, but I've never been). Thanks for your response.

I think that the games are better (not as nitty) over at Motor City.

Imo PLO and PLO8 don't have much in common. Reading PLO-books won't make you understand what's happening in PLO8.

Read Deppen for the basics.

That just sounds more correct.

I mainly play limit O8 and I prefer PLO vs PLO8.

Maybe you should stick to PLO and just start playing limit O8.

I HAVE A DREAM
that the world would be a better place if we only had three choices:

1) Half Pot Limit
2) Pot Limit
3) Double Pot Limit

Half Pot to replace limit poker & double pot limit to replace no limit and its BS all in preflop craziness.

but back to reality...

The (Detroit) casinos spread PLO8 so my hands are cuffed until Poker Stars return.

I could play poker on Merge but I am not that desperate =)

I have been eyeing HUHU PLO by OMGBabyJesus over at DailyVariance; what do you guys think of that series?

What if we could ONLY bet double the pot?!?!

It has been up before - PL before the flop and NL post makes me drool.

The constant all in shoving preflop is a good thing, it pushes people out of Hold'em hands and into Omaha. =)

I would love to see pot limit poker with NL on the river; esp. in Omaha where you would have people shoving the river into your stone cold nuts

This is what lead to AOF (all in or fold) tournaments =)

That's like your opinion man.


I like when my opponents play HE hands (dont you?). And I like the post flop play in hi/lo as well.....

What i love about plo8 is that after youve played about a bajillion hands against a zillion different opponents and IF you have been paying attention during all these bajillion hands.....suddenly all your opponents cards are face up. POOF just like that.

easiest game on earth........

Or it goes from limit preflop to pot limit postflop to double pot limit on the turn!

And deuces are wild. Unless someone reveals the one eyed jack, then the wild card turns into a four.