[sternroolz]

It all depends. O/8 tends to be MUCH looser after the flop.

Basically if you get a bunch of local rocks in the game that only play A2(but play every A2) its gonna be a tight game that is tough to beat.

OTOH, if you get some noobs, particularly holdem noobs who will overvalue sets and two pair and even one pair in Omaha, the game will be great.

As a for instance in Los Angeles games, the Omaha at Commerce is crap right now. At the $3-6 up to $9-18 level, it is the same guys every night. While many are bad, they do not play loosely enough to make the game good. 3 to the flop is not a good way to overcome a $5 per hand drop in $3-6 Omaha. By contrast, the Bike gets new players on a fairly consistent basis in the low limit Omaha. So you get 6-7 to every flop and guys raising with hands they ought not raise with. So when you hold the nut/nut, you can really jam hard and make huge post with hands that are nearly unbeatable.

So the answer is, it just depends...on location and on who happens to be there that night. They can be weaker or tougher than holdem.