Would it help learning other variations of poker?

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So I'm like 50 pages into David Sklanksy's theory of poker, and already he has reffered to different variations such as Razz and 2-7 single draw lowball. Being NLH player, games and concepts are completely alien to me. Would learning the various other types of poker be beneficial in helping understand my prefered game in the long run?

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I think for example Razz or Stud might be helpful because if you play those games right it's an enormous help to train your memory and calculating odds.

Overall, I don't know what Sklansky says about it, but for me personally other games help me to stay motivated.
I mean, after hrs of Holdem, day in day out, it's gonna bore me like hell, which forces me to not play at all (which I actually do most of the times) or I play some other varieties.

Besides, although there are still a lot of bad players in Holdem, the number of terrible , really terrible players in for example Razz and 2-7 is just overwhelming.
 
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Playing other games will undoubtedly help you learn more about your preferred one. In fact, it might even help you learn more about yourself including whether or not you might actually be better at a different poker variant. (You might even find a new favorite game.) It also will help broaden your overall understanding of many important poker concepts.
In other words, the more you know, the more you know. (There must be a better way to say that, though.):)
 
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If you try other types of poker, I think you should stick to the kinds that have open cards on the table, and not draw games, where you only see your own cards.
 
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It would surely help.

By learning different variants, it helps you to adjust and be flexible.

You can also feel and differentiate NLH to others since every variant has its own strategies.
 
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Definately wouldn't hurt! :) I was mainly a NLHE player, and I still am when it comes to live, but I recently started with PLO and oh my god is it fun. It's so much more dynamic then NLHE, and although PLO doesn't really help my NLHE game at all, it's shown me another poker game and now I'm more then comfortable entering low stakes PLO tournaments live or online, so it also widens the range in which I can make money.

I'm looking at learning Hi/Lo and razz etc and other sorts of draw poker eventually as anything that improves my math game is going to help my NLHE game massively in the long run.


TL;DR, learn all you can about Poker. NLHE is not all there is. But dont burn yourself out, learn 1 at a time, don't overwhelm yourself.
 
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