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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 2565119, member: 23910"]
Mechanically it's no different to dealing hold 'em - you just have to remember to give everyone all four cards.  Sounds basic, but more than once I've been at a table where the dealer has rotated in from NLHE to PLO, dealt everyone just two cards then asked the UTG player what their action is :p

Tracking the size of the pot is obviously the biggest challenge, basically you just have to be sharp with your mental arithmetic.

Stacking the chips in the middle is something you could do, I guess... I think it looks awful, AND it's slow, but if the casino lets you get away with it then all power to you.  But it won't save you from the hardest part, which is knowing what the pot / maximum is in the [b]middle[/b] of a betting round.

It's all well and good to know that there was $100 in the pot at the start of the round.  If the first player to act bets pot, easy, that's $100.  But what if they bet $60, someone else calls and then a third player says "pot"?  How much are they putting in?  You can't just pull their chips into the middle and stack them up too, you need to be able to do it in your head and quickly.

A "stack" is 20 chips by the way.  But the casino should teach you chip skills, as well as pot tracking (which you need for all cash games that take a percentage rake BTW, not just PLO)
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