My new favorite site, Svenska Spel, has the following texture on the PLO8 tables (it seems):
Incredibly loose. Wen I sat down the average vpip was 85%. The first hand I saw, *everyone* limped in. Some people were simply playing any two.
Small bets. 90% of bets and raises were grossly undersized. A preflop raise after 6 limpers was often 3BB. A postflop bet was usually less than 1/3 of the pot and often a minibet or 2BB.
Kind of passive. It would often be checked around, a couple of hours of play I think I only saw a handful of instances were someone bet and another player actually raised. Usually the raiser had the nuts.
Players seemed to call small bets with anything, but be somewhat selective the few times someone bet big.
Some hands I played, to illustrate:
AAJ4s otb. 7 or 8 people limp, I make a pot raise. Everyone folds.
A26x rainbow. I completed in the SB. Flop came K62. Someone bet 2BB, two LP callers and I make a weak call. Turn he bets 1/3 pot and one LP caller, I fold. He had 35 for low, other guy had pocket 8's for high (and won).
I have A236s and pot it preflop, get 5 callers. Pants explode when flop comes J72, one guy bets 2BB into me and I push (I was shortstacked). Guy behind me calls and bettor folds. Caller has the nut low draw (A23) and we split.
A3KTs limp in EP, flop top two and bet it all the way. One guy calls with a naked low draw and we split.
J322 in the SB. Flop is checked around, turn brings an Ace and the nut low for me. I make a small bet and get 4 callers, river is another Ace, I bet like 1/3 pot hoping to get multiple callers but get only one, who has 99 for high, we split.
I raise 3BB in MP with A356s, flop comes J74 and my pants explode again, everyone folds to my pot bet. Should I be happy or sad?
Limp with A334ds, flop is KT3r, I bet pot on flop and turn against a solo caller, I push river which is a J for a possible broadway (1/3 pot) and he folds(!).
Hopefully you can get some sort of feeling for the play by what I wrote. Now I am a very bad PLO8 player but obviously I have managed to find people who are even worse. Now how do I exploit them to the max?