NL Omaha?

[1tripz1]

Just wondering why omaha is played PL instead of NL?

Reason i ask is that im playing a home game tonight and i think its gonna be easier if we play NL, just wondering if there are any big reasons against it.

[DeadDrawDonk]

There was a post about this somewhere in the Beginners forum, but I can't find it. Basically in Omaha high the texture of the board changes dramatically on each street, and draws can be very powerful. Playing NL basically means that whoever hit the flop hardest could immediately go all in, shutting out the multiway draws that give the game so much action and taking away what makes the game exciting and interesting. Same thing for AAxx hands, who could just shove preflop regardless of stack sizes, again killing the action. An example is a flop of Ks9s8d... the player who has KKxx might be correct to move in right away, forcing out As8sThJh and QJT9 and ending the hand.

I'm a PLO newbie but that's what it looks like to me.

[Jeff28]

I remember Bob Ciafone writing about those reasons and the fact that the fish got busted out too quick at NL Omaha when the game ran in Vegas during a long ago WSOP.