I started to play omaha8 about one year ago.
I had deposited 50$ on pokerstars to play 1$ sng's. Holdem was not paying of, not losing, not winning.
Tried also some ring games and it brought me up to 100$.
And that's when I entered my first o8 turbo 3.4$ SNG.
And I won, I had absolutly no clue about the game, but somehow I won.
I played another one, and won. And won and won... Soon I was up 100$. Next day the same happened.
So this is how I picked up the game.
After thinking about why I won, the simple reason was that I didn't understood the game much so I pushed every hand which seemed good. And since most of the time you are at worst 40/60 dog. Fold equity did allow me to win with some luck too over those weak tigh player who would fold even when the BB is half of their stack.
After this I played over 1000 sngs to get to SILVERSTAR.
And realised that it was useless. Finally I stopped poker around february with around 800$.
What stopped me was that after the huge run over those sng's. I simply wasnt winning anymore, my roll was deep enough to stand any downswing possible at those limit. 200 buy-in was pretty safe :D.