Maybe so - most of my posting recently has been in the political forums.

However, I have also been trying to learn and playing some PLO recently. The games near where I live are mostly 5 card, but there is still plenty of 4 card around, and every post I read seems to give information relevant to either game, which is why I think it's very silly that those who play one game wouldn't want to read those of the others.
Especially for people playing the game which has recently been losing significant popularity.

By the way, several years ago I played a lot of limit Omaha 8 or better and regularly read the strategy forum for that game. There started to occasionally be posts about Pot Limit O8. Over the years, more and more PL hands were posted, and the two games were never split. I never read any posts complaining about the posts about the game rising in popularity clogging up the threads, despite the fact that there is are larger strategy differences between LO8 and PLO8 than between PLO and 5-card PLO. Then 5 card PLO8 hands started being posted as well, and even occasional 5 card LO8 hands showed up. Nowadays there are hardly any LO8 posts made anymore, so the forum gradually switched from one form of poker to a very different one with no problems.

If there is to be a split, what happens to 6cPLO?

Thing is, 4, 5 and 6 card PLO are all far more similar to each other than any of them to NLHE or PLO8. You can't even get triple-suited hands in 5cPLO. All you do is just ratchet up your hand requirements slightly on all streets. If I'm posting a 5cPLO hand I'd really still like 4cPLO specialist's eyes on it, and vice-versa.

If tagging can be made compulsory I think that would be a good idea. And perhaps some regs here should volunteer to become mods. I was a mod once, a long time ago (different subforum). Trust me when I say that it makes you VERY sexy. People stop you on the street, say things like 'ty for your service' and all that. Give it a go!

Fair point, but I'm envisioning social pressure to encourage OPs to tag their posts appropriately. Doesn't mean they always will, of course, and I think there should be an ability for the public to add tags, unless there's signs that privilege will be abused.

I may just dig around to find a free forum site and mock up what I mean, both to see if the feature set I'm envisioning is easy to find, and to raise up something more concrete for folks to react to.

And if you know anything about those of us who play limit O8, any day we fail to find something to complain about is worth celebrating with a day off work and a parade.

Thank for you for sharing your perspective that your own opinion is absolutely unquestionably the correct one. Let's all hope that your opinion, which you are extremely sure is the correct one, will get every bit of consideration that it deserves.

I also feel like double board hands need at least to be tagged as such, or preferably moved to 'other poker games'.

I'm all for trying social pressure (assuming it's not "f u noob no tag?").

I think the first step is changing the sticky about tags to include a section about what tags to use and that they are mandatory if you want to post.

"Filter Threads by using Tags" sounds very laissez faire/optional. https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...-tags-1795597/

Additionally, if mods with limited powers to change post titles could be deputized, then we don't need to be as selective giving out powers than if they can ban hammer people.

Thank you for your service. I do remember you from years back. Want to be a mod again?

So is the resolution to tag thread titles? I don't mind making a run through this forum a couple of times a day to fix threads that aren't tagged.

I don't think we reached consensus but that's my vote unless/until we get better personalization in the forum software.

Others said this I think: afaik no one complains about bomb pot threads even though double board "PLO" with an ante and no preflop betting is much more different from PLO4 or 5 or 6 than those are from each other.

I think tagging is fine if niss doesn't mind the extra work. I'd volunteer to help if I wasn't overloaded for the next month.

Could just do an extra tag for [double] boards?

The games are too dissimilar. I played in a Omaha dealers choice game. They only wanted to play 5card, plus the players are bigger gamblers than in PLO. I'm sure it's the same as PLO, as in you can learn new best hand strategy if you are willing to study hard. My experience was 1/2 Omaha, dc. I have 2 $600bi. They are buying in at $1000-$2000. If they lost that, they are buying in again and again. I only have 1-1.2K? Thanks for paying the rake. cya.


Yeah, I know I am under-rolled, but that's the only game they run. The PLO games I play, $1200 is my buy-in limit.
rich boy

You have an advantage as the shortest stack.

4/5/6 card are so similar in strategies/concepts that you would do yourself a disservice to not be open to read strategy from both.

In my opinion these are essentially the same games only with all the thresholds shifted a bit.

Seperating forums would dilute it all too much.