http://www.livejournal.com/users/ribmeister/
...You have to understand though that your PLO/8 tables have been utterly
watered down by for some reason starting NLO/8 tables.
In the forums I subscibe to, a lot of players just wont play NLO8 period.
It's a terrible game full of Americans who get two aces and refuse to see a
flop, instead shoving $100 into a $5 pot and somehow expecting a call.
I believe the opening of NLO/8 was counterproductive to your sites
popularity. As you know most of the action for PLO8 is at party poker, they
get a lot of games going including a lot of high limit games.
What makes your high limit games die is people playing NLO8. There has to be
"stepping stones" for new players without the bankroll to be able to build
up a bankroll to be able to play in these games. Because serious players
will not play NLO8 they do not get the opportunities they need to sit down
and play PLO8 regularily. I believe NLO8 simply puts new players off playing
big bet Omaha/8 because they will happily put all their chips in on a flop
where they have the nut straight, then wonder why they lost everything to
the guy with the freeroll flush draw and/or low draw.
The reason PLO8 is not popular with your site is twofold. One, you don't
promote it like you should. Two, you make the tables nine handed. This is
just terrible. I have taken many screenshots of tables where three people
will be sat out for one reason or another. The table goes six handed, then
everyone else refuses to play because they abhor shorthanded PLO/8. The
table dies, everyone leaves. I see it time and time again. You need to make
the games 10 handed to get the players back at the tables, else all the
action will firmly stay at Party Poker. Having played on Pokerstars since
the beta, and having almost exclusively played PLO8 for a living for the
last 3+ years I've spoken to an awful lot of players in those games. 9
handed games and NLO8 tables are the reason you are not running a PLO8
event. There is no other reason for the action being at Party Poker for
these games, since Pokerstars has much better software and a more generous
and easily obtained deposit bonus. (Although you could claim that because
you don't offer affiliate rakeback deals a lot of the pro's stick to Party,
but that's a different matter)
Edited
Another reason I am cpoying Ribbo's journal here is because I hope there will be enough responses here so that PS will give a shit about their dying PLO8 games, like Lee Jones once responded personally about PS's issue at another forum...