Re: HORSE Metagame Makes HORSE an \"Other\" Game?
I consider myself to be a stud/8 specialist who is competent in stud and hold'em, aware but inexperienced in Omaha/8, and deficient in razz.
As I've mentioned in another thread in this forum, I've been playing in low limit (up to $5-$10) HORSE on Stars, and having phenomenal success in the hold'em rounds. (12BB/100 after just short of 1000 hands. The sample size is small, but even so my win rate/100 is more than two standard errors above break-even.)
Two things are going on, I think:
(1) Bad-to-mediocre players who are getting their rear ends handed to them on platters in pure hold'em games are giving HORSE a try, leaving pure hold'em to the TAGs, rocks, and educated donks. Once in the HORSE games, they are open to clueful hold'em players continuing to hand them platters of rear end.
(2) Many stud-variant specialists just plain suck at flop games, thereby becoming easy pickings for competent players.
One of the challenges of HORSE I have scarecely even begun to master is sorting out the players in terms of at which games they are (or think they are) good players.
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