Omaha outreach program?

[crazyweasel]

Anyone have any ideas for advertising Omaha to the general poker population?

[Yads]

"Omaha, Yes you really do get 6 hands in one."

[toots]

Why? So the tables can all be overrun by TV watching wannabes like the Hold 'Em tables are? I quite enjoy its current lack of popularity, as long as I can find at least one table.

[highfidelity]

you wouldn't want the tables overrun with new hold 'em players? i sure would.

[toots]

Yeah, well that is a good point.

But I still enjoy the jovial air around the Omaha table.

[donger]

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Why? So the tables can all be overrun by TV watching wannabes like the Hold 'Em tables are? I quite enjoy its current lack of popularity, as long as I can find at least one table.

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An omaha/8 game stocked with holdem players and TV watching wannabes sounds like the best game in the universe.

That's how most live O/8 games I've played have been, there just arent' enough of them :/!

[NJchick]

They (Wannabes) usually sit in my O/8 game waiting for a NL seat to open up. Best gift ever!!!

[TGoldman]

It's think that tournament style No-Limit Hold'em has propelled the incredible popularity of ring game Hold'em (Both limit and No-limit). If big Pot-Limit Omaha games gain widespread acknowledgement as a game requiring a very high degree of skill, then perhaps limit Omaha (Both Hi and Hi/Lo) ring games will become more popular.

The beauty of Hold'em is that it literally does take a minute to learn but a lifetime to master. Omaha takes about 10 minutes to learn which is too long for the attention span of the kind of people that you would like in your game.

[donger]

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It's think that tournament style No-Limit Hold'em has propelled the incredible popularity of ring game Hold'em (Both limit and No-limit). If big Pot-Limit Omaha games gain widespread acknowledgement as a game requiring a very high degree of skill, then perhaps limit Omaha (Both Hi and Hi/Lo) ring games will become more popular.

The beauty of Hold'em is that it literally does take a minute to learn but a lifetime to master. Omaha takes about 10 minutes to learn which is too long for the attention span of the kind of people that you would like in your game.

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The WPT or ESPN needs to give it a snappy name like 'HOLDEM 4' '6 hand holdem' to relate it to the newer, tv-inspired poker players. As long as it has the word 'holdem' in it, it should really help.

[highfidelity]

it is kind of annoying that ESPN will show almost a dozen of the WSOP events, but that almost all of them were hold 'em. i guess they assume their audience is too dumb to figure out hi/lo games. as someone who plays stud 8/b and omaha 8/b exclusively, i would've loved to have seen at least one of these events. i mean, you can turn on the tv any night and see all the no-limit you could ever want.

[krypto]

Lets start by putting banners on the S&M porno sites then move on to the mental health facilities for masochists.

[mostsmooth]

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It's think that tournament style No-Limit Hold'em has propelled the incredible popularity of ring game Hold'em (Both limit and No-limit). If big Pot-Limit Omaha games gain widespread acknowledgement as a game requiring a very high degree of skill, then perhaps limit Omaha (Both Hi and Hi/Lo) ring games will become more popular.

The beauty of Hold'em is that it literally does take a minute to learn but a lifetime to master. Omaha takes about 10 minutes to learn which is too long for the attention span of the kind of people that you would like in your game.

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The WPT or ESPN needs to give it a snappy name like 'HOLDEM 4' '6 hand holdem' to relate it to the newer, tv-inspired poker players. As long as it has the word 'holdem' in it, it should really help.

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or they can start calling it OMAHA HOLDEM more frequently instead of plain OMAHA

[Bulbarainey]

the prob here is they only run 1-2 tables at the casinos around town, and the omaha players DONT LEAVE! so it takes forever to wait through 2 or 3 people, i was at commerce today and just played HE while waiting in line in front of 5 ppl for omaha, and getting not getting called in almost an hour, at 1:00pm thursday... if we were over loaded like HE theyd have more tables and move faster!

[toots]

Same problem at Foxwoods. 76 tables, and only one Omaha.

I played stud for a few hours while waiting. It was worth the wait.

I wouldn't mind if it got popular enough to have more tables, but too popular and we end up with the same zoo that Hold 'Em has become.

And, Omaha does require a bit more skill on the part of the dealers. What with all the marginal Hold Em dealers out there, I shudder to think of what happens to your average Omaha game when it's run by someone fresh out of dealer school.