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Sunday Flagship Omaha Tournament
68Trebor
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I have recently started dabbling in PLO and PLO8, playing bits of cash and a few MTT's culminating in finishing 2nd in tonight's £100 guarantee PLO Hi/Lo (blatant brag, sorry).
I am finding the game far more thought provoking and enjoyable than Hold Em and believe that most players, once they got their head round the basics, would also find the game a nice change to their staple diet of Hold Em.
To this end I was wondering if there would be enough interest out there for the introduction of a flagship Sunday tournament.
I was thinking of a 7.30pm Sunday start with a guarantee of £1,000 or £2,000 with a buy-in of £5 or £10. Each week could alternate between PLO and PLO8. I just think there maybe a demand out there for this and believe it would help promote the game on SKYPoker and may lead to a few more players joining the site.
Thoughts?
Comments
FOSP have a PLO Tournie every Sunday Now alternating Hilo & PLO, numbers have more than doubled recently, you obviously welcome to play, if not already, but maybe i'll ask sky to put guarantee on this, see how it develops.
HiLo has defo found some newer fans here as demonstrated by The FOSP HILO League on Thursdays!!
Good idea tho!!
I & many others, could not play today as well, we hoping after only 4 weeks running this tournie may top 100 later this month!!
I will speak with Brian Churchy, who Runs FOSP HiLo League on thursdays & Dave Solarcarro who runs FOSP PLO Varients league on a Sunday, see their thoughts, we can debate here i suppose in open for all.
Maybe TK & Sky can Join in Too, give us their thoughts.
An easy Trial would be to have Garantee placed on the FOSP Sunday tournie, and maybe make it HiLo every week. as this seems popular defo.
It is Currently £3.30, so not out of everyones reach, has good structure too
Initially a £300 or £500 garantee could be a stepping stone.
Would You like to Help Us in FOSP with this Sunday Proposal Trebor??
Would be grateful, we find 2/3 folks helping with Leagues, makes work liter!
The Hitman
The numbers on the Sunday night FOSP Omaha League have jumped up in recent weeks as well so it is clear that there is a demand. One of my mates plays on iPoker because they get the biggest PLO8 field and they usually get around fifty players. We have already topped that in a few weeks from a standing start.
The big break through will come when they can show Omaha on the TV channel. If they could do that next Thursday, there would be well over a hundred players.
Think this is ready to explode.
Similar Omaha events have been suggested many times, tried a few times, never got off the ground.
Omaha rebuy speed BH.
Build it, and they will come.
Initially a £300 or £500 garantee could be a stepping stone.
Would You like to Help Us in FOSP with this Sunday Proposal Trebor??
Would be grateful, we find 2/3 folks helping with Leagues, makes work liter!
The Hitman
After consulting forum, which got 100+ posts I think, we ran with it, with Skys support, Sky adding FOSP extra tournie for us, on Thursdays!
These Tournies, even this early, smashed Garantees & some have had over 70 runners!
The FOSP Hilo team of Brian, Me & Scousered are confident we will get to 100+, and will speak with Dave, Solarcarro, TK & Sky about how we might progress sundays FOSP PLO potential!! I will speak to Key APAT HILO FOLKS TOO, about joining in, as FOSP are forging strong links with them.
..as my Good friend Harry quoted above.. from one of my Fav sporting films...
"If you Build it, they will come"
That's 4 from me now....
OOOOopps 5 now, sry!!
you better than me with figures ofc, X
Team AJ would like give his stamp of aproval,
and is looking forward to the new sunday night schedual.
It would be an honour for the future plo8 champion to play this tournament.
Regards Alan (plo8 master in the making)
Morning all.
I had not seen this thread (see "losing the plot") but Phantom alerted me to it via my little Diary thing & asked me to take a look, & comment. As you know, nothing would please me, or many of you, more than to see bigger & better PLO & PLO8 Tourneys on Sky Poker.
It will always be a minority interest game, I'm afraid. There are encouraging signs of a pick up, but that'll be a slow burner, a long job.
Show it on Ch 861? That I doubt very much, certainly in the near term. They have half developed the special "Console" required, but there are so many higher priorities, & a lack of resource, so I don't see it happening, certainly not in the near term.
For the Business, they try to get as much value as they can in all things, so spending valuable resource on a game barely 2% or 3% of the site population plays, instead of the vastly more popular NLH, is a tough case to make.
I'm more than happy to send a note upstairs & ask for a weekly PLO &/or PLO8 MTT with a bigger Guaranteee than at present. The current "biggie" is £100, I think?
Personally, I'd suggest starting with a slightly less optimistic Guarantee, maybe £250 or £300. If that covers for a few weeks, then up the stakes & try for £500, & so on.
Is Sunbday REALLY the best night? I'm not so sure. I think the Business would be LESS inclined to support it on a Sunday, when the Site is already busy, & they want to encourage action in the Main, Mini, & UKPC Finals. It would also clash with the existing Community based PLO & PLO8 thing.
I think a weekday night would be better received by the Suits.
I'd actually be happy to underwrite the cost of a sensible Guarantee personally for a week or two if need be. I'm also happy to donate the cost of a Bounty on me or someone else from 861. If Neil were available, I know he'd play it, too, which might help.
So, that's my views.
Watcha think?
PLO8 (My guess, PLO8 is more popular on the site than PLO)
Not on Thursday as that's the great FOSP PLO8 night, so, Friday, Saturday or Sunday at a reasonable start time, 1930 etc, not 2200 or owt else daft.
£200 or £250 guarantee to start, no need to get all giddy. See how things go, increase the guarantee if entries warrant it.
Ask Ambo 'No-Comb' Channing and TK to play the first one, with a cheap little bounty on their heads.
If No-Comb can't afford it, I'll lend him a couple of quid.