They did update the structure on October 2nd (just noticed). They added a couple levels. It now goes....
3k-6k
4k-8k
6k-12k
8k-16k

Just missing the 5k-10k and earlier level at 150/300 or 500/1000 would makes this rock solid...but a decent improvement this year from what I can tell.

Has anyone here played the OHL8 tournaments since the entry fee went from $65 up to $125? The calendar shows that the blinds have gone from 20 minutes to 30 minutes, has the starting chip stack also changed?

Meh. Now that I'm unemployed, I'm only playing at RA sporadically, might make it out there in a few weeks but won't for now be the semi-regular that I once was. Oh well.

BTW, I finally got around to opening up a PokerStars account a few weeks back. Took 71st place in a 2700-entrants freeroll donkament to win a massive $0.80 and have since done some grinding, now up to a $6.98 BR. Heh. Maybe I'll play some microlimit OHL8 there before jumping into the $125 RA game.

Hey Erik,
No I haven't played it yet since they changed it and I think it was a mistake to raise the price on the weekly O8 limit tourney. The whole point is to get casual players who usually play holdem to try Omaha 8 and doubling the buy in isn't going to help there.

I heard from someone at Canterbury last week that they only got like 13 people for the last Thurs O8 limit tourney at RA. Maybe this is because of the busy tourney time of year right now with the MPC at RA and the Fall Classic at Canterbury but I think it's mostly due to the buy in increase.

I emplore whomever is in charge of tourneys at RA to change this back to $65 next month please.

Oh well, the O8 limit tourney is still listed at $125 on the Nov Tourney schedule. I may try to play it once in Nov.
Did anyone play this O8 tourney last Thurs Oct 22 and if so how many players did they get?

Have they been getting the O8 cash game going out at Running Aces while the Fall Classic was going at Canterbury?
I saw many of the RA O8 regs there last week as they had the bigger 10/20 O8 games going during the Fall Classic.

I'm probably going to go to either canterbury or RA later this morning. I want to play the biggest game I can, which card room would be my best option? Last time I went to canterbury (6 months ago) they were rarely running 30-60, is this still the case? What would be the biggest game that I could expect to see at each room? Thanks.

Mornings are usually slow at both places but FWIW generally 20/40 is running at RA by noon, and if it isn't, the 4/20 spread game can get some pretty big pots. And the 2/60 plays a lot like 1/2 NL.

Your mileage may vary.

I only go to CB sporadically, but each of the last 4 or 5 times I was there, 15/30 was the biggest game running.

15/30 is almost never NOT running at cpark. It runs far more frequently than the 20/40 at RA, but the 20/40 at RA does get running nearly every single day and does play quite a bit bigger than the 2-60 spread. The 2-60 spread has a max buyin of 200$ or something which helps to keep the game playing a little smaller than the red chipped 20/40. The 30/60 runs at cpark for sure every weekend, and most days of the week it does get going in the evening hours, tho usually starting short-handed. If the off hours your looking at are so off that cpark doesnt have 15/30, then the 8/16 game at cpark will be the biggest game in town, which will play a little bigger than RA's 4-20 spread. As a general rule, cpark will have about 30-40% more players than RA at any given time. RA is a fantastic room with some great dealers and floor, but they are a little newer so generally have a few less players at any given point in the day.

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There is pretty much always at least one 20/40 LHE running when I visit RA Thurs-Sun.
There is also one and sometimes two 4-20's and several 2/60 spread games going.

I will be at RA on Thurs for the 7:30PM Omaha 8 limit tourney.
Let's try to get a big turnout for this one!

RA is a fantastic room with some great dealers and floor,
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Sorry if I"m hijacking but, personally I think the dealers in general at RA are collectively the worse group of dealers in any card room I've ever played at.

Now, I've only played at Canterbury, and a dozen or so other rooms in vegas, but the RA dealers routinely make many errors both technically and in matters of etiquette.

I've also had one of the floormen walk over and call the clock on a player at a 2/60 game without any player or dealer request after a fish went in the tank for about 2 min at the most, which really affected the action in the hand and I felt was out of line.

I personally don't have a problem with the dealers at RA, only one or two have been problematic.

Also just wanted to let you guys know that the 5-60 spread game is back on with min buy in 200 and no max buy in. Played it once and was pretty good game. Hope they keep it going, instead of disallowing it like they did shortly after they opened.

Uhhhh did RA pull all the O8 tournies for this month??? I was actually going to go up there Thursday but I didn't see anything worthy on the schedule.

You could NOT be more correct! I have been there twice, and both times the dealers are horrible, as previously mentioned on dealer said "Hurry up, this hand isn't going to win the bad beat" and last night another dealer was just as bad.

Not going there ever, well that may not be true, but not my first choice

Is it true that RA is now running a 5-60 spread? Someone at the 8-16 @CP said that they've been doing this for weeks just curios if this is actually true. If it is are the games any good? Is it affecting the 20 game?

I stopped by and played some 5-60 spread. No cap to the buyin. The old manager that disallowed the game is gone, so its on and been running quite regularly. I think the 20/40 is running less frequently as a result.

The game was good, decent action, although a pretty solid table when I played. I only had an hour or two to played and Flopped top set of tens 3 ways. Turned a set under when an Ace nailed the under the gun old man that has a habit of coolering me. Sweet As for putting in a 4th bet, what he never has AT or AK here?!?! always just the rockets? sigh.

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Damn I leave for the year and they start a 5-60 no cap game? Does the 2-60 run that often anymore, or does this just cut out the 20 action?

Yes, the 2-60 still runs a decent amount. The nits love it, and since its yellow chip theres a bunch of broke degens that could never afford 5-60 that will play it as their regular game.

Is the 5-60 an all red chip game?

yes, its 2/5 blinds with only red chips playing, and a max bet or raise of 60$ on any street, with a min bet of 5$ on any street.

Are some of the reg fish from 2/60 playing the 5/60 game? Or do they primarily stick to 2/60.If you've played there enough you should know who I mean. And what about the good 2/60 regs, where are they playing?

The best players from 2/60 went to 5/60, most of the really fishy broke degens stayed at 2/60, and the 5/60 is drawing a few new richer fish to the party, but for the most part is a fairly solid game, tbh. When I played it was very beatable, but there werent a lot of guys cold calling with dominated high cards, or opening Ace rag from early position. Certainly they were over-estimating their implied odds with small pairs, and overvaluing top pair post flop, and certainly there are lots of missed value bets, but if you want to crush the game for 5 to 10 bb per hour, youll need to stay at 2-60.

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How many did they get for the Big Turkey NL Tourney yesterday?
It also looks like the Thurs Omaha 8 tourney isn't coming back in Dec

~fifty. times are tough. I skipped it cause I thought the field was going to be too thin. Bad turnouts get worse turnouts.

iowa- diamond joes scraped up 140 for the 340$ on saturday. Jacks cant beat AQo, obv so no mobnies for homeslice.

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They never really gave the O8 tournies a chance. Raising the entry fee seems to have been a big mistake.

Agreed, a very big mistake. Especially with the Midwest Poker Classic and Fall Classic tourney series going on during that time period. I emailed them about trying it again with the old $65 buy in but I haven't heard anything back. Hopefully next year!

I will be at RA tonight playing 4/20 or 2/60 spread!

On some level, they do pay attention to us. Yesterday when they announced football splash pots, it was "Table 5, table 16, table 8, and table 2+2=4."