Online Poker Forum - $20 Tournament Limit Omaha hi/lo at Excalibur

Guhit1

I was at Vegas the last two days and stayed at Excalibur and noticed their poker room had automated poker tables. I thought it was pretty cool they offered them and only thought of playing but never came to it until last night I found out there was a $20 buyin omaha hi/lo tournament w/ rebuy 15 minutes before it started. I decided to register and took my seat soon after. Signed in to the system and looked at the tournament info. Found out it I players get 2000 chips but blinds start out at 50/100! Not too familiar with limit tournament formats but 20 big blinds seems pretty low and actually got someone all-in within the first 10 minutes of the tourney not because it was a lose game but it literally seemed like calling from pre-flop to the river will pretty much put all your chips in the pot.

So what do you think of this structure for limit omaha hi/lo tournament? Fair or bullsh*t?

bottlecapthief · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject:

It's obviously a **** structure, but it's also a $20 live PLO8 tournament. You shouldn't be expecting a super deep structure. Also, Excalibur adds $100 to the prize pool for every table that starts each of their specialty tournaments(Stud, PLO8, Stud8, PLO), so there is actually a nice overlay. I have yet to play the PLO8, but that seems worse than the others. The $60 PLO starts with 5k chips, but that is 3x as expensive.

assortednuts · High Card Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

As fun as it might have sounded at the time I would not have played because any hand is playable at that blind limit and sounds more like a nl online game where the only play is double or go home immediately. How can a person even consider playing a hand w/o being willing to commit at least half their stack on it? Should have walked as it was more of a lotto than a tourney. Just my opinion though. I played at the Peppermill in Reno and it was nowhere near that bad but was still a real gamble to put money in the pot if nothing came out. If you can't get quarterred w/o being crippled how can you play anything but aa23 ds or aakk ds?

BOYNAMEDSUE · Moderator Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 9113 Location: Mypos

I was not planning on visiting the Excalibur poker room (not a fan of automated tables), but a $20 o8 tourney sounds fun.

Karmastang · Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject:

The tournaments in Vegas usually have horrible structures... this one doesn't surprise me one bit...

The only tournaments that have decent structures are higher buy-ins ($500+) at Wynn, Bellagio, or Caesars.

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