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Originally Posted by sofocused978
Can someone explain to me all the complaints with PLO being run with a 100bb max buy in? The game has always been played like that online hasn't it?
IMO, most of the people who post here would simply like to see a bigger PLO game, hence would like to see bigger buyin's (among other changes). I think most of the complaints are directed at the $60 minimum, and shortstackers, more than at the $300 max.
I would personally like to see the min raised to $100.
IMO, there are a lot of other changes which could be made to the structure of the 1/2 PLO game to make it run more smoothly.
For example, I think that rounding the postflop pot up to nearest $5, and allowing postflop bets in $5 increments only, would improve the game quite a bit (from personal experience elsewhere), by speeding it up, without making the game enormously bigger.
However, I think that some of the other changes ($5 bringin, $500 max buyin) would turn it in effect into a 2/5 PLO, and might lose more new players than they attract. (Personally I would be thrilled by regular 2/5 PLO, but whenever a list is started for that, it seldom gets more than 2 or 3 names.)
But I really think that the real problem is not the current structure (though that could be improved), but simply that there just isn't quite enough demand for PLO (yet) to have the game go every day. Most of the new poker players in the last 10 years have come into the game exclusively through holdem, and are scared of Omaha and also of potlimit betting. When the internet was available, people could learn the basics of the game in .01/.02 games, but no more.
I really don't have a good solution to this, unless FW would like to try to promote the game somehow (which might be a good idea for them).
Otherwise, I think the best we can do is to start lists, show up when the game is called, play short-handed to get the game going, be flexible about PLO vs PLO8 (or learn whichever one you haven't played), be friendly (and uncritical) to new players, and be tolerant of other players' views.