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[QUOTE="glworden, post: 1143129, member: 35332"]
I read this a lot, but it's wrong.  Any reputable text will verify that, when played correctly, variance in Omaha is about 50% that of Hold Em.

I'm voting O8, simply because learning to play it well yields better and more predictable profits with less variance.  But your decisions are pretty cut-and-dry, especially pre-flop.  So it's not really so much "skill" as it is knowledge and discipline.  Hold Em does give the skilled player more opportunity to be creative and make "something out of nothing."   There are more suckouts in Hold Em.  It might seem there are more in Omaha, but since the draws are often more profitable and predictable, they are not really suckouts.

If you're getting a lot of suckouts and variance at Omaha, you're just not playing very well.

You want to play at tables with a high flop percentage and loose drawers, but played correctly O8 is tighter than HE.  It's pretty hard to even play O8 too tight.  It's a real grind and not really the most fun.  Long dry spells.  But the best money maker.
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