Dan Deppen is now a coach at Cardrunners.com!!

After producing 9 training videos for Stoxpoker,com, I've transitioned over to Cardrunners. My first video for Cardrunners came out in June, and the 2nd is due out in August. The videos I made for Stox should get moved over to Cardunners at some point, but they are not available yet. Official announcement.

Welcome to plo8poker.com

You have found one of the few websites out there with quality PLO8 strategy information. At plo8poker.com you can find everything you need to improve your PLO8 game. There are free strategy articles and even free training videos! Most of this information is not available anywhere else online, and here you can get it for free.

Also offered is the only book dedicated to the subject of PLO8 poker. This book contains many of the secrets of the game that are known only to a handful of PLO8 specialists. You can download a copy of the e-book immediately. By the end of July, hardcopies should be available from Amazon.com. Please check back for updates. There is no better resource available for learning to crush PLO8 games.

The e-book comes with a money back guarantee. If for any reason you are not satisfied with it, just send an email to contact@plo8poker.com stating why you weren't satisfied, and you will be refunded within 24 hours. This offer is not available for the paperback version because it is sold through Amazon.com, and I don't have a way to provide a refund. But since the book has been for sale since June 2009, no refunds have been requested.

If you have questions about the website, the book, or the author, please e-mail me at contact@plo8poker.com.

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Here is a summary of the reasons why you should learn PLO8:

• In PLO8 there are many loose-passive opponents that you can exploit in ways that are no longer possible in NLHE. In some ways PLO8 plays like NLHE games from 2003-2004, before the explosion in books and training videos educated the masses on how to play NLHE. Many NLHE players now think to themselves, “if I only knew then what I know now I would have crushed those games, now it is so much tougher and I missed my chance.” By playing PLO8 you will find plenty of loose-passive opponents to beat up on; and there are still plenty of opportunities for large profits.

• The variance is much lower than in other big bet games. This is owed partly to the split pot nature of the game, but mostly to the softness of the competition. The implication of this is that you can play games on a shorter bankroll than you can in other games, and grow that bankroll faster.

• Improved game selection.  Although there are fewer PLO8 games available than there are NLHE and PLO games, knowing how to play PLO8 gives you more options when all of the NLHE and PLO tables are tough. By being able to table select from amongst different games it will be easier to find a soft game. This is particularly important as online games NLHE and PLO games become tougher and fish are more difficult to find in those games.

• It will expand your poker mind, and improve how you think about the game. It is easy to get into a mental rut and play on autopilot if you play the same game all of the time. By learning about PLO8 you will better understand some general poker concepts that you can apply to other games.

Attainable Win Rates and Variance

As already mentioned, you can achieve sustainable win rates that are higher playing PLO8 can you currently can in other big bet games. Just how high can you go? In cash games you can sustain win rates of over 10BB/100 hands over the long term, even playing at mid-limits. 

For Sit n' Go's (SNG's) ROI's of up to 22% have been achieved in sample sizes of over 20,000 games, played at mid-level and high buy-ins. Good luck attaining win rates like this playing NLHE with a table full of regulars that have NLHE SNG strategy solved.  

The higher your win rate, the lower the variance you will encounter. Then the split-pot nature of PLO8 lowers the variance even more, since in many situations you will be able to free-roll your opponents, and when you get the money in bad you will have opportunities to suck out and win half the pot. This makes for very low-stress poker, and you will tend to be less prone to tilting than you will be in other poker games. 

One of the problems that NLHE cash game grinders have is they have to be very good just to achieve a long term win rate of 2 BB/100. There is also more variance in NLHE due to the structure of the game. This means that players with these small edges will see huge fluctuations in their bankroll. This requires a much larger bankroll to play NLHE than PLO8 at the same stakes. It also takes more mental strength to deal with the inevitable downswings. For most people it is difficult to go through a downswing and not have it affect their play.

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