Limit o8 regs thread

[DeNutza]

This just in: Garden City in San Jose, Ca has been getting a 30-60 game, often going
around the clock for about a week.

And if you've played holdem there, you'll know why this is such good news.

[Buzz]

Originally Posted by drnkyourmlkshk

I'm supposed to be heading to LA in September. I was thinking of checking out the cardrooms out there. I play 10-20 basically live, will this be available and what can I expect in LA?

$10/$20 in Los Angeles? Or do you mean Louisiana?

There's no $10/$20 Omaha-8 that I know of in Los Angeles. Closest to that, I think, is probably $6/$12 at the Bike (Bicycle Club Casino). I haven't been there for a while, but the last time I was there, $6/$12 Omaha-8 was alive and well, running every day.

Buzz

[Rush17]

Originally Posted by Omaha Chris

33 kill pot BBs, FIFTY regular BBs?

Whoah there.

If you lose anywhere near that many BBs in one sitting at a live 4/8 LO8 game something is very wrong...

I have yet to see any player buy that many chips. They'll bring color-up denominations WITH them and put them on the table with their stack, but I've never seen anyone buy that many outright.

Well, as long as the chips are on the table, they're in play (whether they are out of the rack or not).

I don't suggest buying in for $400 because I plan on losing...I suggested the buy-in because I don't believe in playing short. Besides, I like a lot of chips...what can I say.

[plaaynde]

Originally Posted by drnkyourmlkshk

This is awesome! I played play chips last month while showing a friend who had never played for money what o8 is and the betting etc. I lost 2600 at 30/60! I don't think he'll be playing any o8 soon

I think every level has its special twists. Variance is not going to disappear, patience is always needed...

[plaaynde]

Originally Posted by Buzz

$10/$20 in Los Angeles? Or do you mean Louisiana?

lol
Good one.

[Omaha Chris]

Originally Posted by DeNutza

This just in: Garden City in San Jose, Ca has been getting a 30-60 game, often going
around the clock for about a week.

I may have to run up there and see this with my eyes before I believe it...

And if this game indeed exists, better believe that there are rounders who have come to town specifically to play it. If they're not there yet, they will be.

[BadSeed]

Anyone plays Stars 2/4, 3/6? Who are the best regs there? It takes too long to gather my own data on them ))

[Omaha Chris]

Originally Posted by Rush17

Besides, I like a lot of chips...what can I say.

I like a lot of chips too, but only when they started in other people's stacks

[strongsauce]

I use to play 2/4FR on Stars about a year ago but stopped b/c it seemed like everyone played way too tight waiting for A2w to get involved in a hand.

[Omaha Chris]

In what online FR game are people NOT doing that??

[drnkyourmlkshk]

Los Angeles cardrooms. I normally play 8-16 w a hk when I play live wouldfnt mind playing a little higher but nothing much more than maybe 15-30.
I've never been to LA to play Omaha is there anything unusual I should expect?

[BadSeed]

Originally Posted by strongsauce

I use to play 2/4FR on Stars about a year ago but stopped b/c it seemed like everyone played way too tight waiting for A2w to get involved in a hand.

6-max is much more fun!

[Buzz]

Originally Posted by drnkyourmlkshk

Los Angeles cardrooms. I normally play 8-16 w a hk when I play live wouldfnt mind playing a little higher but nothing much more than maybe 15-30.

Half kill would be normal for those stakes. Sometimes a game like that gets going, but I don't think there's anything like that on a sustained basis. There are higher stakes fixed-limit games with Omaha-8, but I think they're mostly mixed tables where there's a round of Omaha-8 and then a round of stud-8. And there's the no-limit game that continues in one of the local casinos.

I've never been to LA to play Omaha is there anything unusual I should expect?

No. I've put my initials on the board for pot-limit O-8 a number of times, but I've never seen a pot-limit O-8 game materialize in a casino here. I think they get going from time to time, but I've never seen one. (But there is no-limit O-8 at one local casino on a regular basis).

There are no casinos in the city of Los Angeles. And there are no casinos in Orange County. The Los Angeles casinos are in Los Angeles county. Hollywood Park is closest to my house and is in the city of Inglewood, near LAX. Hustler and Normandy are in the city of Gardena. Crystal Park is in Compton. The Bike is in Bell or Bell Gardens (I forget which). Commerce is in Commerce. Hawaiian Gardens is in Hawaiian Gardens. Those are all cities in Los Angeles county.

I've played Omaha-8 at all of those casinos, but I'm not positive where Omaha-8 is currently offered or will be offered when you get here, except that games of Omaha-8 always seem to be going at Hollywood Park, The Bike, Commerce, and Hawaiian Gardens. Those are all huge casinos, with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of poker players in attendance. However, I'm not sure if any of them have the stakes you want. The last three times I played at Crystal Park it was five-card Omaha-8 (with the player having the dealer button sitting out so as to make it an eight-handed game). The stakes were either $3/$6/kill or $4/$8/kill. (I can't remember - those always have seemed about the same to me).

You can't really get from one Los Angeles casino to another without a taxi or a car. In theory you could walk the several blocks from Hustler to Normandy and the couple of miles from The Bike to Commerce, but I think you need more courage than common sense to attempt either one of those. Otherwise, they're like five to ten to fifteen miles apart, something like that.

Buzz

[strongsauce]

Originally Posted by Omaha Chris

In what online FR game are people NOT doing that??

The good games? Trying to say that the games were too nitty to make much money, at least without sitting for long periods.

Originally Posted by BadSeed

6-max is much more fun!

Yeah I'm interested in getting back into O8 and when I do it'll probably be for 6-max

[Omaha Chris]

Originally Posted by strongsauce

The good games? Trying to say that the games were too nitty to make much money, at least without sitting for long periods.

That's what I'm saying too!

There ARE no good games.

To paraphrase the meme you'll see on these forums, only I sincerely and without a trace of irony mean it: no money in online FR FLO8, everyone's solid.

It's the one or two best hands dealt vs. one or both of the blinds, heads-up by the turn, one guy refusing to fold no matter what, they split the pot and get their money back (plus tiny amount of dead money, minus rake), repeat.

How anyone is making money in a game specifically designed for multiway pots and lots of action, when the online games lack both multiway pots and action, is totally beyond me, but apparently some people are.

Originally Posted by strongsauce

Yeah I'm interested in getting back into O8 and when I do it'll probably be for 6-max

If there's any money to be made, it's in 6-max.