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[QUOTE="starfall, post: 396020, member: 7551"]
Players who have obviously come from HoldEm seem to be the best candidates for fleecing with a tight game - in HoldEm you're generally not expecting to have the nut hand - often top pair is enough, and trips is just something that will occasionally catch you out, so you need to be looking at making stronger hands in Omaha or Omaha Hi/Lo (Pot Limit or Limit).
With the High/Low split games, you're generally looking for a hand that has both high and low potential, because a low hand will be possible something like 40% of the time. This is the key thing that you have to get used to when coming from HoldEm - that you're wanting the nut hand.
For Limit and Pot Limit Hi/Lo games you need to factor the Low hand into your pot odds calculations and your starting hand considerations. Although a low hand won't be possible fairly regularly, playing a starting hand that doesn't have low potential is playing a hand that's only at 80% strength, when you want to be playing only strong hands - non-low hands therefore have to be very good otherwise.
The other reason playing non-low hands is really bad is that a lot of the profit in PLO8 comes from when you have a lock on half the pot and a shot at the other half. With a high-only hand you'll be the wrong end of those large pots, with no chance at the low and generally some chance of losing the high.
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