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Comic2b - I've only played on line twice, once in a hold 'em tournament in which I did dismally (meaning I didn't make the final table), and once multi-tabling three tables playing Omaha-8 at a friends house. (That was somehow a dizzying experience for me and I left feeling somewhat disoriented). I generally play several times a week in live limiit-Omaha-8 games in local casinos.

If I did play limit Omaha-8 on-line, I think to avoid anihilation, I'd have to play much tighter than I have to play in live casino games. And then in order to avoid total boredom, I think I'd have to play three or four tables at once, folding anything not in the top 10% of starting hands. But that honestly sounds more like a grind than fun for me, more like work than recreation - and the pay would be a pittance. I think to make enough money to earn a decent living playing Omaha-8, you'd have to either play pot-limit or find some juicy private high-limit games.

As recreation, limit-Omaha-8 is fun, but I don't think you can make much of a living playing it. Games above $6/$12 are rare and evidently cannot be sustained on a regular daily basis at any casino in the Los Angeles area. Even the $6/$12 games are tough to keep going. Hollywood Park, which is the closest casino to my house, regularly sits $3/$6-kill and $4/$8-kill games. But that's it. Every Omaha-8 game they get going at higher limits seems to soon fizzle. (And that's really fine for me, since I'm purely a recreational player).

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