Hey guys I am posting this quetion here in mid stakes rather than low stakes as I think the more experienced PLO players will have a better idea as to whether this is a correct assumption or not;

I wanted to know if playing short stacked, say 40bb deep will reduce the variance associated with PLO. I'm asking this because I have been focusing on Fixed Limit games since my BigBet game is not good but I do want to improve. However my bankroll is not big enough if I were to play 100BBs deep at PLO5 (the smallest stakes offered on my site, Bovada)

Right now if I bought in for 40bbs at a PLO5 table I would have 65 "buyins" which is much better than 25 buyins at 100bbs. So will playing short stacked and essentially nut peddling reduce variance or will it increase it?

I know short stacking is frowned upon but I dont plan on short stacking my entire poker career. I just want to do it until i can build my roll up to about $500 so that I can have a 100BI roll for PLO5. But the main question is the variance. Will it be worse short stacking? Or am I better off playing my main games (LHE & FLO8) and waiting until i hit the $500 mark?