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hey guys
What do you think is the hardest poker variant in tournaments to win?

NL holdem
Stud/razz
Omaha
Omaha hi lo/studd hi lo
HORSE
Draw poker
etc.
 
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Horse would probably be the hardest for me because of the different varieties of games involve. You got to have a decent game in all the varieties. And when it rotates it get very overwhelming when you have to keep pace to the change. Sometimes I drift off/slack a little and realize after I lost a hand that the game has change. Lol. You got to be the master of all trade and master of none. Sometime when my chip stack is high I tend to have trouble with one of the games like stud, so whenever it change to stud I just fold every hand until it changes to something manageable until I can focus on a current game.
 
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Limit razz is the most infuriating game I have ever played. It's also pretty funny to play 8 game and then it switches between razz and stud or vice versa and people don't notice and play garbage. Or switching from stud hi/lo to stud hi. It's amazing how many people including myself don't always notice.
 
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For me the hardest game is Omaha... It seems like even with the nuts on the flop/turn I cant ever win... I can deal with Omaha 8, thats a very fun game.

Also horse is a great way to blow off steam and have fun for me.
 
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hey guys
What do you think is the hardest poker variant in tournaments to win?

NL holdem
Stud/razz
Omaha
Omaha hi lo/studd hi lo
HORSE
Draw poker
etc.

I would say that the most difficult variant to win is NL Hold'em because it is by far the most popular.

There was an article in one of the poker magazines that opined, if you want to win a bracelet at the wsop, pick the tournaments with the fewest entrants.

If you look at the WSOP, all of the NLHE tourneys have huge fields and you have to have an incredible run of luck to just to cash, much less win. The fields for the lowest buy-in $1,500 NLHE tourneys have 3,000 players, and the only reason they aren't bigger is because they are capped.

I honestly think I'd have a better chance at winning the $50,000 HORSE tournament against 300 pros than the Main Event against 8,000 other players.

I suck at HORSE, but most of the games in the $50,000 HORSE tournament are fixed limit, so I could play super tight and hope for the best.

Against 8,000 other players in the Main Event, I'd have to be super-super-lucky just to cash, much less win.
 
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I would say that the most difficult variant to win is NL Hold'em because it is by far the most popular.

There was an article in one of the poker magazines that opined, if you want to win a bracelet at the WSOP, pick the tournaments with the fewest entrants.

If you look at the WSOP, all of the NLHE tourneys have huge fields and you have to have an incredible run of luck to just to cash, much less win. The fields for the lowest buy-in $1,500 NLHE tourneys have 3,000 players, and the only reason they aren't bigger is because they are capped.

I honestly think I'd have a better chance at winning the $50,000 HORSE tournament against 300 pros than the Main Event against 8,000 other players.

I suck at HORSE, but most of the games in the $50,000 HORSE tournament are fixed limit, so I could play super tight and hope for the best.

Against 8,000 other players in the Main Event, I'd have to be super-super-lucky just to cash, much less win.


The size of the field excluded, which do you feel is hardest? Say you have a choice between any of them, all with the exact same field. Then what would be hardest?
 
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