Starting out with PLO

[BigCheesy]

If you just learnt the rules just go at 10nl and play some X amount of hands to get a feel and then consider what stakes you want to play.
Equities are different than at holdem and some ideas from it will help your game, others will lead to poor results. Go to propokertools.com and evaluate some more common scenario hands, you will be amazed at some of the results if you have holdem mentality. Tri's book is fine, I have the first half only, but it will still help you a lot if you don't want to buy the whole book. Generally, many of things from holdem apply - position is very key in hand selection, you want to be the one with the initiative, to play hands that make nuts like top set/nutflush/nutstr8 especially oop and you can 3b lighter in position against right opponents.

[demo79]

Scoot posts is spot on,
but about books i would recomend starting with Hwangs books if that is your thing, the first one will make you tight since you come from NLHE you wont know what kind of hands to call pre and may call AK56 double suited and stuff like that, the second book is more of a 6 max post flop style but you need to define your preflop game first to understand post flop, and also position is WAY more important than in NLHE.

Hope this helps.

[onesandzeros]

I have been playing 25nl but Obie-Wan Kenobi has been telling me to play and get good at Plo now So I listened for a change and I guess... and um ya, I don't want to play 6max nl anymore. LOL I'm gonna focus on uPlo 6 max. To say that these games are juicy is an understatement. It was hard for me to believe what I was seeing. It was literally a fish fry!

I've been 2/3 tabling Plo10 to get comfortable and play semi tight but very aggressive, especially in co/btn. Once I'm confident I'm crushing the level I'll move up, I'm rolled for plo50 but I would rather play over-rolled then standard so that I can get a feel for the swings to come and whatnot. I'm thinking 60 maybe 70 buy-ins (100bb's) is a standard BR?

A must is something like Omaha Manager. I just ordered one through Leggo.

Awesome thread, I've implemented many of the tips offered and they have saved me in spots ...

tyty

[robbyd86]

Have fun with the variance onesandzeros hope u run better than i did.

But seriously, i agree w/ you that the games are very juicy and there's very few if any regs at uPLO..... i could just never win when i was allin.

[onesandzeros]

The variance is wild for sure! Ty robby & better luck nxt time u hit the uplo.