I play bomb pots where there is a double board - and I find it really fun and more exciting than the actual game.

Could a casino just run a double board game where the game would play the same, but we get 2 boards instead of one.

Would probably have to be a time raked game and no jackpot drop.

Just like 5 card PLO took off, I bet a lot of people would play this.

pokerstars run 2-board poker (both holdem and omaha) for a while, but once the novelty wore off it wasn't all that popular - if I recall correctly, it played extremely nitty in both games

a dealer's choice rotation in my local game does include 2-boards 5 card PLO and the game is quite popular, but personally I dislike it, it's just mega multiways and people trying to out-nit each other

Drawmaha is better/more fun than double board, just saying. 2-7 drawmaha is even more fun.

Double board bomb pots are only fun in the context of people who have no idea what they’re doing.

I’m pretty sure resorts world offers this

Triple Flop O8 (low river card kills that board) was a staple at the last few 2+2 parties - loved it!

resorts world in vegas has it a night or two a week for plo and i've seen it at wynn before but not with any regularity.

seems like it would be a really slow game between the players tanking trying to figure out what they have and the dealers having to split up a large % of pots.

might be good for the players who just want to gamble, but I prefer to play poker

They run one every day for PLO in Houston at Elite Social Club

This is poker the same way allin or fold is poker.

Our home game frequently includes a few rounds of our variant of hi-lo chowaha (four cards to each player, then one flop, two turns, and three rivers--play two from the hand--as in Omaha--and one, two, or three from the board plus one from the turn and/or one from the river to complete a five-card hand). The river card if played must be contingent to the turn card.

Very entertaining.

Because we've recently been joined by some new players who are still getting used to Omaha we've been holding off for the last few games, but soon we will make their life so much more complicated.

It’s a split pot game. The edges are probably higher than nlhe for those that know how to play.

Yea the problem with it live it that it's really slow and lot of chopping.
It's actually why I havent played this for more than an hour or two at a time , although I do enjoy the one hand of it every half hour on the dealer change at Wynn.

But a ton of people put way too much money in when they can't win one of the boards.

At Wynn on

AA8 rainbow
And A35 flush draw board

It was a 25 dollar bomb pot

Guy with 300 bucks pots it for 200
Guy calls
I make it 600 with akq5 and the nut flush draw on the bottom

First call is all in for his last 100

Now the guy who flatted the 200 goes all in for like 2500

He has 24q9

No flush draw
So he has queen high no draw on the aa8 board and is going ballistic protecting the wheel on the other board and I flushed him on the wheel board.

Stuff like that makes the slow pace and chopping worth it.

Probably too many chops, so not that many rebuys, would not make for a better game overall. Probably also less tips for the dealer.

In my experience while there are less hands for sure dealers usually do well bc all of the winners tend to tip.

IME peeps are much nittier with tipping in a chopped pot esp when they don't win much (it's different in a bomb pot with everyone in). Some peeps would not tip at all as a matter of principle in a split pot. But some would tip well bcos they always do ofc...

Aaah, that's what it was. When I saw the thread title, my immediate thought was "I swear they played something like this at the 2+2 meet-up events" (which I still have never been to).

In general I agree with you. I see this a lot when people run it twice which is infuriating. But for whatever reason in my experience almost everyone tips on chopped bomb pots.

If I understand what you're describing, this would significantly reduce the proportion of boards where a low was possible.

That sounds like an interesting variant since, unlike in regular double board games, it might substantially change the equity of starting hands.

Think of a regular game of PLO. Imagine a scenario where you are betting the river, let's say betting 100 into a pot of 100. Your only opponent is tanking, and finally makes a crying call.

Now imagine the same scene except it is a double board bomb pot. You again bet pot for 100. The opponent who made a crying call in single board will probably make the same call when he has the same hand on one board, and NOTHING on the other board. In the first scenario, he was calling 100 to win 200. In the second scenario he was calling 100 to win 50. And he will probably call almost as often in the second scenario.

THIS is why double board is so great.

Casino near me runs a 5-10-20 mix 5 card plo game. Double board (with preflop action), BigO, and 5-card high only. Double board is extremely soft, the problem is the hands can take quite a long time especially if youre having to chop pots multiple ways with different stack sizes. Not uncommon to only see like less than 10 hands per hour with double board in a splashy game.

in jail they run a 6 card double board draw 2 after the flop omaha game where the first boar'd turn and river is the turn and the 2nd board's turn and river is the river.
also a lot of badugi is played

A home game variant is red/black. NLHE each player gets 2 cards from red deck, 2 cards from black deck. 2 boards, one from red deck, one from black deck. Best red hand splits with best black hand.

Another variant is red/black no split, where best hand of either board wins the entire pot. A lot of bluffing.

Takes some time to not confuse cards/decks, but ok after that. Plays a little slower than single board game, but pots are much bigger.

Well all I got is hold'em and 5 card PLO - would like to have other game types but no one wants to play them. Hold'em is ok - but kinda boring. 5 card PLO is still really fun

I've barely started to figure out the single board game!