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NewbSaibot United States. Jan 12 2026 03:42. Posts 4951

Been sorting HH's by largest pots won on ClubWPT just to see the epic action (in case you didnt know you can open any existing table and just go back in time and see every hand played even if you werent there)

and feel like I've noticed a trend; people are making much bigger mistakes in NLHE than PLO. There seems to be this mantra that PLO is where aLL ThE AcTiOn iS, and while there does appears to be a higher frequency of action, many of the pots are just kinda average in size around 100BB's. Like even the worst players manage to have at least a shred of equity to bail them out by the river. Calling a 4bet with J852r doesnt seem like a good idea but then he's up against AA and KK and hits bottom pair and whaddya know. But in NLHE I'm seeing allins for 500BB pots with 88, A3s, JJ, etc. Many times even postflop! The board will be something like J92s and AA will x/r rip it and some fish snaps with AJ or TT and loses 4k at 5/10/20. I just saw a 12k pot go 3 ways aipf with KQs, AA, and KJo. You just dont see this at PLO.

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bye now

Last edit: 12/01/2026 03:45

DooMeR United States. Jan 12 2026 19:42. Posts 8564

Always has been. ~Insert astronaut pointing gun~
plo is attractive to people that arent doing well in holdem, because they want to think its not their fault that they arent crushing. Holdem winrates are huge especially in US only sites. Anyone not making 5bb/100 on US sites at reasonable stakes. Its entirely their fault. Great players make much more than that approaching 8bb+

EDIT: actually some people do enjoy it more fwiw i guess. but imo PLO is fake action game. You get to be so much more out there in NL since you can get scenarios where people will over fold their equity in spots where they dont realize its close or lots of other spots where people misplay their equity. Theres a lot of MASSIVE mistakes in holdem where you get the opportunity to max punish them where in PLO the freq of the max punish is lower. That said though obv PLO, has higher standard deviation so there is obv high variance @.@

I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance, by running away from the scene of an accident.

Last edit: 12/01/2026 20:49