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Originally Posted by Botswami
For the love of god, can we figure out a way to get some decent 10/20 or 15/30 limit action going somewhere? Omaha/8, LHE, stud, mixed, whatever. All these rooms in South Florida have become overrun with small-stakes holdem nits who play only to try to hit a high hand.
I wish this could happen. Until 4 months ago I lived in the PA/NJ area and these were pretty much the only games I played, with some PLO mixed in. I knew moving down here that these games pretty much were non-existent. If you have enough people, a casino will spread the game but it doesn't seem to be a ton of interest in this area in those games at this time. I sometimes bring it up at tables I am at, and people say oh yea I'll play, but then they don't get on the list when i start it. Here are my few pieces of advice that may give you a chance.
-Pick a casino and try to get people to show up at a certain day and time every week and call a casino ahead of time, on a Friday/saturday night when the room is full they will be less likely to open a new table for you as opposed to the 30 people on the 1/2 list.
-Have the stakes/games agreed upon ahead of time.
-Get 30 people to say they will show up and hope 6 do.
-Be willing to start the game short handed.
-Advertise the hell out of it on these forums.
-Pray
I have seen this attempted at many a casino in the past that did not have a game of a certain type, it would happen for a few weeks but then fizzle out.
THe Parx PLO game is a great example, it had a solid core group for a while, then the action player was banned from Parx. They started the game a certain night of the week, it worked for a while then just stopped happening.
Also you need to focus on the right groups of players. You are right about lots of players trying to hit BS high hand and what not but those aren't the best target group. You are more likely to get 2/5 -5/10 players to play a mid limit mixed game of some sort then 1/2 or 3/6 and under LHE player. Hell the ISLE spreads 4/8 O/8 but they aren't even a group I think you could really get any players from.
I would love for this to happen and sincerely wish you the best of luck. If by some chance you get some interest feel free to PM, I could play any night of the week except for Thursdays.