Posted by jessthehuman:
I heard that the top 10-20% of Omaha hands hold up better than the top 10-20% of Holdem hands.. |
That makes sense mostly because of flushes and straights. When you have hands like AK10J, if you're against someone with a hand like 56910 and both hit a straight or flush, you're almost always going to have the nuts or a very very strong hand and might have him drawing dead.
In NLHE, those situations where both players hit a straight or a flush are rare and hard to dodge even if you're a great player... That's why in PLO it's usually very easy to play strong starting hands post flop. You either hit and bet/raise/call or don't and just fold to any bet. In NLHE, it's very tough to fold an overpair against 2 pair or a set and it's something that happens pretty often...
So I think NLHE is more about reading your opponent and his betting patterns than PLO. PLO is all about chasing the nuts post flop and waiting for your opponents mistakes, unless you 3bet 4bet almost every hand pre flop like a lot of PLO pros like to do  Because they make the pot bigger pre flop, you can't afford to wait very strong hands...
But still it's hard to compare a PL game to a NL game, even if the basics are the same.
Edited by TheMachineQC (29 March 2013 @ 06:48 GMT)
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