Omaha 8 or Better at the casino, why am I playing with my parents?

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Why is it everytime I play O8B at the casino, I am playing with people 10-30 years older than myself, is this really an old-timers game?

[jedi]

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Why is it everytime I play O8B at the casino, I am playing with people 10-30 years older than myself, is this really an old-timers game?

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How'd you find an Omaha game so young?

[Big O]

I was joking with the guy next me about me being the youngest at the table, then someone came into the game and he was in early 20s. yehaaa I had him by 10 years [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Rick Nebiolo]

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How'd you find an Omaha game so young?

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You beat me to it [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Omaha isn't attracting much new blood and always has been a game (if you want to win) where playing extremely tight is essentially correct (read Steve Badger's essays - you can Google them). Note that the better players know to jam with big draws and such, so the older players who play merely tight won't do well. Over time the action dries up making it less fun for the players who see a lot of flops. If you lose you at least have to have fun losing.

~ Rick

[El Dukie]

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Omaha isn't attracting much new blood and always has been a game (if you want to win) where playing extremely tight is essentially correct (read Steve Badger's essays - you can Google them). Note that the better players know to jam with big draws and such, so the older players who play merely tight won't do well.

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True. That said, if you're playing lower-limit O/8 (up to 10-20 in my experience) and you play moderately well, you can clean up against the "merely tight" players and their "extremely loose" counterparts who populate O/8 tables. You have to play tight, but still jam it up on occasion when you've got the outs and odds to justify it. More an exercise in math than pure poker-playing -- but it's always fun when a decent hold'em player sits down at Omaha for the first time and tries to run over the table. He usually leaves the table a few hours later, broke and complaining about how terrible his opponents are... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]