Some Omaha games in Gauntlet VII?

Do you guys think Omaha is popular enough now to mix in with the NLH games for Season VII of the Gauntlet? If we do it, I was thinking 8 of the 24 games to choose from would be Omaha with each player still allowed a max of 12 games to play. And if so, which Omaha format would you like?

Please vote accordingly and let me know what you think. If voting YES, vote only if you will be playing in the Omaha games.

FYI, the buy-in for each game this season will be $10+$1.

Also, vote here on the Tournament Of Champions game:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/horse-for-toc-vii-t68901.html

Would it make more sense to add the Omaha games rather than replace NLH games? So if we have 8 Omaha games, there would be 32 total games to choose from (24 NLH + 8 Omaha)...?

I'm just concerned about consistent attendance for every game throughout the season.

I'm going to guess the omaha games get not attendance. Unless the regs who don't really care about the standings decide to play. Just my speculation.

NL omaha is dumb. Limit isn't fun so I think it has to be PL. Omaha H/L is played in tourney's more than Hi, maybe someone else knows why. I'd play either H/L or Hi PL.

FWIW, If the format was going to stay the same I wasn't going to play at all this season.

I have cast my vote. I'll be there if it goes ahead, and I've voted H/L, the game that's played in tournaments and also my best game

For sure I wouldn't be able to play this season if 8 of the existing 24 games are Omaha. I would avoid playing Omaha games because I am terrible at that game, so I either vote 'no' for Omaha or say it's okay if they're added on to the existing NLHE games.

wow, I would be tempted to play 6max even though I'd get totally owned

6 max nlhe would be sooo good and I bet they'd get a good turnout. (I am kinda biased though) I would play some pl omaha even though I'd be a huge donk. I do eventually want to be good at it anyway.

6max is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a good idea.

i voted no for omaha.

yeah hu would be cool. They have 6 max tourny's on stars though can you email stars support and see what they say?

I like the heads up tourneys too

I like PLO8, I will play if they are the weekend ones, not the Wednesday ones;

How about a HORSE one ?

I am not that good at Omaha, but I think that in order to have a well rounded league, you have to mix it up. The league would be better for it. I voted PLO, 'cause H/L confuses me.

I really want to add Omaha to our league. I voted for and would totally play PLO8, as I've been playing that in home games and am liking it a lot.

There seems to be enough interest to get at least 1 full table in the Omaha games. If you Omaha guys could get other Omaha players to get excited about the Gauntlet and get them to this poll, I think I may go ahead and add Omaha to our league... maybe a total of 32 games.

Those of you that have voted for PLO so far, will you not play PLO8 (Hi/Lo)?

And 6-max NLH seems to be very popular. Maybe I'll do all three this season... Full NLH, 6-max NLH, and PLO8.

I voted no. Sad

Sadly I wouldn't play in that many of the Omaha events. I would like to play in a couple though. If you included fewer throughout the season, you would probably get more participation in the Omaha events you do have. Throw in like 2-3 extra PLO8 events on top of the holdem tourneys.

P.S. I vote for PLO8, if you throw a couple Omaha events into the mix.

PLO8 FTW!

I voted no, but really only because I don't think the attendance will be high enough. Maybe just 4 games of PLO would be cool, and a nice change.

I would probably play one or two for fun, but from the point of view of trying to actually win the trophy, you need to play games with a good attendance, and I don't know that enough ppl will play the PLO games.

I voted for NL Hi/lo, but would be interested in Omaha in either format.

There may actually be enough interest for a few added Omaha games. But is Omaha Hi really the preferred format here for tourneys? I thought Omaha Hi/Lo would be more popular.

Definitely PLO8. It plays better and scooping pots is the biz bomb when you river that high.

PLO8 would be fun. but, so would an addition of some 6max NL games, a FLHE game and some Stud Hi/Lo, too.

not to get carried away, but lets start catering this "league" to a well-rounded game...towards HORSE, but still allowing you to choose your games. only the overall winner will have to play in some other than NL to gain the necessary points to win that kick ass trophy.

PLO8 Xianti

and yes, chopper's is a great idea
mixing NLHE (FR & 6-MAX), FLHE, PLO, PLO8, STUD, STUD8 (not sure about RAZZ though) would make for a more wellrounded and deserving champion, not just a random luckbox donk

qualifiers would have to play a HU match for 1st, 2nd etc; best of 3/5/7

X, on an (not entirely) unrelated note, can you fix an FTR HU CHAMPIONSHIP? Like the FTR DUEL OF FIRE or something?

Just a suggestion

*Last edited by Xianti on Mon, 31 Mar 2008, 4:03pm; edited 1 time in total*

btw, in order to stay on top of which upcoming games are which format, I strongly suggest that you all sign up for the Gauntlet game reminders usergroup:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/groupcp.php?g=15844

Without these email reminders (to be sent the day before or day of each game) you won't know when your favorite format is coming up... unless you happen to look at the FTR Calendar frequently.

Xianti, YOU F***ING RULE! I think the proposed setup would be great.
The only thing I'll mention is HU matches will tend to be more boring b/c the chat won't be lit up with 9 people like "traditional" Gauntlet tables. This could take some of the fun & socialization out of the gauntlet. I'm sure the play is fun, but the social aspect of the Gauntlet is best when everyone is chatting, jeering, zinging, etc.

UPDATE:
Maximum of 16 games this season.

i'm sceptical on the HU tourneys, but we never know until we try.

I think you would get more railing than expected in a HU tourney, especially if you stagger the matches so everyone isn't playing at the same time.

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