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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1670508, member: 23910"] If I may present my rebuttal: Not the case unfortunately. I'm looking at the FTP lobby now, at the following stakes this is the number of PLO tables with games running right now: $2 - 11 tables $5 - 7 tables $10 - 7 tables $25 - an admittedly impressive 19 tables $50 - 10 tables $100 - 9 tables That's compared to at least 90-100 active full ring tables at all those stakes in NLHE (with the exception of $5NL, which has about 50 active) and about the same number again in 6-max NLHE tables. I'm sure there are good games to be found among the ones available for PLO. But what about multitablers? I honestly don't know if mass-multitabling is as common among PLO players as it is among NLHE players but it certainly looks like anyone wanting to try it has less options and less action. Maybe that'll change in the future but we're talking about the state of the game now. Even so, NLHE is still the live game of choice in most of the world. The main event at pretty much every tournament series in the world is NLHE - hell the majority of tournaments main events or otherwise are NLHE. Even if you have access to a casino that spreads PLO cash games most will have a lot more NLHE tables open at a wider variety of stakes. And when a drunk casino punter decides to have a bash at poker you can be almost certain it'll be NLHE, the game he's seen on TV, that he'll be playing instead of PLO. A rare exception - for every example like this there are dozens that get sponsored because they played NLHE on TV. If you want to become a sponsored pro your best bet is always going to be playing NLHE. Again, maybe PLO mania will sweep the world at some point in the future and all this will change but right now there's no argument that this is the state of play. A fair point. I will point out though that for the fish to get better they first have to [I]want[/I] to get better and go looking for these resources. It's not like their availability has dried up the pool of NLHE fish and in some cases reading has actually made the fish worse players - how many have lost buyin after buyin misapplying some advanced concept that they don't really understand and isn't appropriate to the game they're playing in the first place? Your point stands, I'm just saying for most of the members of sites like this the benefits of widely available, often free resources (the PLO ones you've mentioned are probably out of the price range of most beginning players) almost certainly outweigh the downside of slightly better educated fish and they make NLHE a more attractive game to play. [/QUOTE]

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