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Originally Posted by COCOCHANEL
I'd never heard of this game until today, and I'm a mix player who loves action and has some circumstantial degen tendencies.
This game is kinda sick, y'all--I gotta say!
We used to play a game called murder ball which was a hybrid of stud 8 and draw hi, and we played that as a limit game. After a while, the fish started getting crushed to the point where they stopped producing, so we shrewdly removed it from the mix.
This game strikes me as having potential consequences similar to murder ball...
These posts are all from about 5 years ago. I'm curious whether y'all are still playing this game regularly/whether or not it's sustainable? (I lol'd re the post about the one operator who said the game was banned from the mix in his joint. That seems like +EV for anyone running a game.)
I'm a mixed game (re: Dealer's Choice) player with the capacity for degeneracy myself.
I had never played this game either until about 6 months ago when someone introduced it into our $10 max dealers choice game.
I then introduced it into out weekly PLO game, and we played it when we got 5 handed or less for a few months.
Here's a recap of how the hands go: Nitty, Nitty, Nitty, Nitty, Cooler. Nitty Nitty Nitty Nitty Nitty Nitty, Cooler.
There's a major flaw in this game. After playing it for a while and getting your bell rung in the 5-card hand with 2 pairs and small trips, people start to tighten up, even the fish.
So then it just comes down to who gets fortunate enough to draw a full house in their hand vs. someones drawn flush or boat or something like that... Even a solid player is going to have a tough time folding a flush or small boat in a 1-draw game... So then you're just at the mercy of hoping you can make something on the board that beats their hand.
The only saving grace for this game is playing against degens that cant get away from sets or flush draws for the omaha portion.. Where you have a 5-card hand and are just completely freerolling them on the omaha.
Long story short, this game lasted about 2 or 3 months in our rotation then it was sworn off.
(Side note: We played it a couple times where if you draw one card, you can get it face up, and if you do not want it you can get dealt a different card.. has anyone else ever played this version?)