Almost - three cards that are eight or lower, & Board, not flop. (And this must always be 2 in your hand & 3 on the Board). Remember also that if you have, say, A-2, & a deuce falls on the Board the deuce in your hand is counterfeited.
If there is a low, the total pot is split exactly in half, with half going to the best high hand, & half to the best low hand(s).
So when there is no Low, the entire pot goes to the High hand, effectively the PLO hand. No matter what, there is ALWAYS a High, but there is not always a low, so it's bad play to just chase the Lows with A-2 type hands.
The thing to be careful is a, say, 3 or 4 way pot, when you have A-2 which is good for the nut low, but so do one or two others. The high hand then takes half of the ENTIRE pot, & the low hands then split the low half of the pot twice or even three times. That's called "being quartered" as you are only getting quarter, not half. (Or "sixthed", a sixth, not half). That's a very bad thing, as despite having the nut low, you lose money on the hand.
If you get Heads Up in a pot, & both of you have the same Low (very common) but Villain also has the high, he gets three quarters & you get a quarter.
So you want combo draw type hands, ones which can win BOTH pots, which is known as a "scoop", or "scoopio".
You should never enter a pot in PLO8 unless you have a hand that can scoop. Chasing low-only hands is the quick way to the poor house and the mistake that almost all those new to PLO8 make. Even experienced players make the same mistake. Never chase low only hands.
Depends on the action in front of you, your position, and your stack size. It's not a hand that a) often improves and b) rarely draws to the nuts.
The point here though is that most players, most of the time, play strong low hands, so a flop with no low might mean we are good. But if the flop comes 3 or even 2 low cards we can almost never scoop, and if the board finishes with a possible low we rarely scoop, and may well not even be good enough for the high, as the low drawing hands can so easily hit two pair.
If I can see a flop early doors (blinds still small relative to our stack) cheap enough, I don't mind having a look, but unless we hit a high flop really hard we have to let it go.
If SkyBet was a market for "who will win at least one UKOPS?" this fella would have been short odds.
Runner-up MARK277 was having a best ever Sky Poker MTT result, bit unlucky in a way to run into a beast like railtard. Mark has a SS rating of 66, railtard 97. Tough gig that.
@railtard11 2370000 1 £706.42 + £344.71 Head Prizes 14
Curious as to his Sky Poker history, as he used to feature on Sky Poker TV a lot back in the day, I used the Forum Search function & up popped this thread from 10 long years ago. Quite a few names to jog the memory here, including dear old Acebarry who, sadly, is no longer with us. Wonder what happened to Tennis Bloke, Ivanovic?
To be fair, when we were both struggling Alan did offer his hand for assistance. I rejected it, perhaps naively, and maybe that's why I went out first,
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I've read an article on it and I'll be nitting it up in that tournament tonight.
Easy to remember the difference;
This is PLO8;
And this is PLO;
Almost - three cards that are eight or lower, & Board, not flop. (And this must always be 2 in your hand & 3 on the Board). Remember also that if you have, say, A-2, & a deuce falls on the Board the deuce in your hand is counterfeited.
If there is a low, the total pot is split exactly in half, with half going to the best high hand, & half to the best low hand(s).
So when there is no Low, the entire pot goes to the High hand, effectively the PLO hand. No matter what, there is ALWAYS a High, but there is not always a low, so it's bad play to just chase the Lows with A-2 type hands.
The thing to be careful is a, say, 3 or 4 way pot, when you have A-2 which is good for the nut low, but so do one or two others. The high hand then takes half of the ENTIRE pot, & the low hands then split the low half of the pot twice or even three times. That's called "being quartered" as you are only getting quarter, not half. (Or "sixthed", a sixth, not half). That's a very bad thing, as despite having the nut low, you lose money on the hand.
If you get Heads Up in a pot, & both of you have the same Low (very common) but Villain also has the high, he gets three quarters & you get a quarter.
So you want combo draw type hands, ones which can win BOTH pots, which is known as a "scoop", or "scoopio".
You should never enter a pot in PLO8 unless you have a hand that can scoop. Chasing low-only hands is the quick way to the poor house and the mistake that almost all those new to PLO8 make. Even experienced players make the same mistake. Never chase low only hands.
Stupid game.
Stupid me.
I retire again.
Depends on the action in front of you, your position, and your stack size. It's not a hand that a) often improves and b) rarely draws to the nuts.
The point here though is that most players, most of the time, play strong low hands, so a flop with no low might mean we are good. But if the flop comes 3 or even 2 low cards we can almost never scoop, and if the board finishes with a possible low we rarely scoop, and may well not even be good enough for the high, as the low drawing hands can so easily hit two pair.
If I can see a flop early doors (blinds still small relative to our stack) cheap enough, I don't mind having a look, but unless we hit a high flop really hard we have to let it go.
I've come away confused but would def play again. More PLO8 tournaments.
You live and learn.