Pca Bahamas no1 probably London as my 2nd choice. Pca have alot of good side events and its nice to get some sun in january.

Hi Neil,
Thanks for sorting these out, gonna make a trip down for the w/end 5th/6th for the PLO & NLO8 now.

Good idea to get the Hi/Lo tourneys on running days, makes trips for these worthwhile.

Found the side events structure, but what will starting stack be for the PLO and how long re-entry on the NLO8? Also EPT website has the PLO as £250 and here it says £500 ???

Thanks again JON

Hi Robbie,

You're welcome! But I think I'm going to lose some of your thanks because I couldn't get them on back to back days like you think I did. The reason you're confused on the 250/500 is because the 250 is a PLO High Double Chance. The 500 is the PLO8 on Tuesday. We tried to make it work to line up at least 2 of them, but had to settle for the PLO8/PLS8 and the 8 game on Thursday/Friday. The NLO8 and PLO8 have a day in between.

The re-entry on the NLO8 is only 4 levels at the moment as we changed all the EPT events to be 4 levels of late reg for EPT10. I'm speaking with Toby to see if we want to adjust that for this event to maybe give you guys 2 hours instead of 1 (15 min levels). We'll post it if we change it. For now, it is 4 levels.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Nice tournaments, especially first two. Nice buy-ins, too since I've just played mainly 1,1k€ events (8 late EMOPs so far). Hopefully you get nice attendance.

Sadly I'll probably miss them, since I'm going for Grand Malta and Battle of Malta in September and after that I won't be able to miss any more of my studies. But maybe I find good flights to London for weekend and participate the turbo one.

EPT Prague and EPT Berlin are most likely where I'll participate if at least 2 Omaha8 NL/PL tournees are there. In Prague I'll most probably play Grand Live, too.

Did you take the economy package or the lux one at the Battle of Malta ?
http://www.pokerlistings.com/battle-of-malta ?
Not sure if I'm gonna splash out or not O.o

I won packages for both, it was bigger 1,400€. If I should buy-in I either would take Economy or just come to main event and arrange (cheaper) hotels myself. Those package hotels are usually quite a robbery.

Sorry for off-topic. But perhaps different tournament coordinators should better think how other tournament series affect their participants list. Like EPT Barcelona and Grand Live at same time next week, and almost nothing in summer now that EMOP is over. Can't understand why more tournaments aren't arranged in summer when people have time to travel.

Cool, nice one!
Think i'll heed your advice on that!

Will be nice if we get same Omaha8 Tournaments from EPT London to EPT Prag and EPT Berlin! Will be great!

Hi all,

Just an FYI that the Prague Schedule goes out this week. It has 15 Events that are non NLH, out of 47. An NLO8, a PLO8 and a PLO/PLO8 6 Max, plus 6 PLO's and 6 other tourneys that are non NLH. 28 of the 47 are also less than 1K, a lot of the variants are €200 DeepStack Turbos including all the O8's.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

nice ^^^

Hi all,

EPT10 Prague thread is up! http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/65...013-a-1377762/

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Hi all,

Info on upcoming non NLH - cross posting...

Hi all,

I can confirm that we can't run O8 or anything that isn't Limit/PL/NL Holdem and Limit/PL Omaha High in France. You read that right, can't even run NL Omaha high because sometimes laws are weird

I can confirm one O8 at Vienna. The thread is up here (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/65.../#post41901152)

For Non NLH, Vienna has...

1. PLO 6 Max Double Chance (€250)
2. PLO Turbo - 8 Max (€1K)
3. PL7 Stud Deepstack Turbo (€500)
4. PLO Turbo (€500)
5. Limit 7 Stud Championships (€1,500)
6. Limit Holdem Deepstack Turbo (€200)
7. Limit Omaha High Low - Double Board - 8 Max Turbo (€200)
8. PLO Reverse Mix Max (€1K)

And while EPT MC hasn't been announced, I can confirm there will be ...

PLO - Turbo - "6 Handed" €5,000 + €200
EPT Pot Limit Omaha High Low Championships - "8 Handed" - 30,000 Stack - 30 Min Levels €1,000 + €100
PLO - Single Re-Entry - "8 Handed" - Flight 1A - 40 Min Levels €1,000 + €100
Pot Limit Courcheval - Turbo €200 + €20
NL - Omaha High - DeepStack Turbo €200 + €20
PLO - "8 Handed" - Turbo Bounty €100 + €100 + €10
Chinese - Open Face - Unlimited Re-Entry - 30 Minute Levels €2,000 + €200
EPT Stud High Low Championships - 30,000 Stack - 30 Minute Levels €1,000 + €100
EPT H-O-R-S-E Championships - 30,000 Stack - 30 Minute Levels €1,000 + €100
Pot Limit - 7 Card Stud - DeepStack Turbo €200 + €20
NL - 2-7 Single Draw - "6 Handed" - Deepstack Turbo €200 + €20

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I know Omaha 8 is a popular format and trust me, we are committed to putting in as many variants as possible to round out our festivals. I'm a mixed game player who made all my money at O8 and S8 so I believe in those games. Festivals of nothing but NLH don't interest me at all.

Please give me any feedback you think will help and I'll do my best to see that there is always something worth playing if you don't feel like NLH.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

sorry what is double board?
will there be satties on stars for these events in MC?
u could make them a must play!

someone let me know if this ever happens, i'm there

Hi all,

Mann - 38 - Double board is normal FLO8, but we burn, deal two flops, bet, burn, deal two turns, bet, burn, deal two rivers, bet, showdown. Then the pot is split 50% to the top board hands and 50% to the bottom board hands. At this time PS doesn't tend to run Sat's to Side Events at our Live Festivals. I'll keep the feedback though as you never know what could change. There will not be online Sats to any of the above Side Events this season.

Lucius - 39 - We did it somewhere, I think EPT MC last year or PCA last year maybe? It is in my bag of tricks, I promise! I love those two games!

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

thx but that sounds like a dealers nightmare.
my guess will be 7-8 hands a hour that way.
could be cool online but boring live.

Hi Mann,

Nah...I trust our dealers! It won't be as slow as you think it will be. Fixed Limit is so much simpler for O8 than PL or NL and the pots will already be stacked to be split. I don't think it will be 25 / 30 hands an hour, but it will be decently paced I think.

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist

Hi all,

Bumping a number of threads with this post as I'm not sure who is reading where about the Omaha 8 questions I've received over the last year or so.

There is a €109 Omaha High Low Player's Choice Satellite tonight at 16:05 ET (21:05 BST / 22:05 CET - #939929132) for the Omaha 8 Championships during EPT11 Barcelona! There are feeders for the Sat running all day from €1.64 to €15.00.

As a reminder, EPT Season 11 is focusing on a different discipline at each stop this year. In Barcelona, the game is Omaha 8 with a €1K FLO8, PLO8 and NLO8. In London it will be €1K Mix (HORSE, 8 Game, 10 Game) and in Prague it is €1K Omaha High (FLO, PLO, NLO). The Spring Events aren't confirmed as of yet.

An additional point about the changes to "Player's Choice" Sats recently made is that no matter what discipline of poker (Holdem, Stud, Omaha) you win your "Seat" in, you can use that ticket for any tournament where Player's Choice is applicable. So if you win a seat in the Omaha 8 Sat tonight, you can still use it for a NLH Player's Choice Event. The same as when you win a NLH Player's Choice you can use that ticket to play any of the Omaha 8 Champs in Barcelona, or the other non-NLH Champs throughout the season.

Good luck tonight and if you have any questions please let me know

Cheers,

Neil
PokerStars Live Events Specialist