The Importance of Position: Hold'em vs. PLO

[Motorcycle Mike]

As a NLHE 6 max player that has recently converted to PLO, I have been reading as much of the limited material out there as possible. One of the books most recommended was: How Good is your Pot Limit Omaha, by Stewart Reuben.

In this book there is a hand analysis on page 22. In answer 1 he states that, "Position is MUCH LESS important in Omaha High than it is in Hold'em or Omaha High-Low.

WTF????

Without question position is important in both games, but is this really the case???

[Ribbo]

He is a fruitcake, just ignore him.

[TrainHardDieHard]

wow. position is more important in omaha than pretty much any other game. what a retard

[Nitilism]

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wow. position is more important in omaha than pretty much any other game. what a retard

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Unless you're a stortstacking ratholing bastard, that is.

[Troll_Inc]

Look, it's very important in big bet poker. If you ignore position in either form, you will lose money. So does it matter if position is 2.0 fold important in PLO, but only 1.75x in NLHE?

A problem with a lot of the Ciaffone/Reuben advice is that they just "tell you the answer" but don't go into any sort of proof. Did they happen upon this after many years of poker? Or did they get out their abbacusses and calculate it?

http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/c...right0707.html

[CrushinFelt]

I'll read this later. My unexploitable strategy. Raise preflop, call any reraise, c/r any two pair+ to get all in.