Great well. I didn't even know what a well was before this thread. I just read all the way through it to catch up. It's so cool to see such an experienced pro as yourself mingle with and respond to us plebs.
I've barely played any Omaha let alone O8 but I think it's a very interesting game and at least part of the future of poker. PLO8 is my uncle's favorite game, and FLO8 is his most profitable, so I'm definitely trying to learn from him and from everyone.
NLO8 really is an action game. When I play it at my home game, people are raising 5x blind and shoving/calling 60bb deep with basically any 4 cards. I think part of the reason is that people realize that it's hard to be worse than 40/60 preflop. If you get it in with 35% equity, it's about as bad as it can possibly be. So really it is a postflop game when you're playing deepstacked, but as a preflop game, it's just a shovefest, which is great for the gamblers. And great also of course for the people who can just constantly get it in with a very slight edge over a sufficient sample size to grind out a profit. I wish I were a member of the latter than the former (a grinder rather than a gambler
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