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Hey everybody

I'm a pretty decent PLO cash game player. However, i've never played an omaha tournament. Are there any suggestions u guys have for PLO tournament play? Like hands ranges etc. Or should i treat hand selection like i do with Cash games
 
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Dont play PLO tourneys is probably the only thing I can say.
 
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really? I'm guessing its too luck based
 
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if you are good at plo cash, play plo cash but tourneys will be so mind numbingly painful to play especially with the variance in PLO.
 
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I wholeheartedly disagree that PLO tourneys are too high variance...if done properly they can have much more standard swings than in PLO cash.

The main difference in the way you should approach tourneys compared to cash is we're now 100% reliant on position...as opposed to only being around 75% reliant in cash games (if that makes sense). In position we're now playing hands to see flops, possibly for small raises to establish the initiative in the pot...and we gain more from taking little stabs at the flop/turn/river because players are generally tighter in a tournament structure than in a cash atmosphere.
 
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how about compared to NL holdem tournaments? Would u say there is more variance in NL holdem tourneys or PLO
 
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I would say due to the skill level of the typical NLHE player compared to PLO players that the variance is far less in large field PLO tourneys compared to NLHE ones. Nobody knows how to play PLO yet hehe.

As the field lessens in any tournament the variance will drop more.
 
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