Vegas Cash Game Bomb Pots
Any low-level NLHE or PLO cash games in Vegas doing hourly or half-hourly bomb pots these days? If so, are they all doub
So instead of giving the smallest amount of action to appease fish and help your image, or learn how to win money, you decide to piss off the table and be a life nit. Great decision.
If someone cares you sit out bomb pots, they are the problem. The recs won’t give a care.
If you feel like you have an advantage at NLHE and are not comfortable with Omaha there is no shame in sitting out BP. my home game does frequent Omaha bomb pots and there is so much variance that it's not something I like to join each time.
yes there are people who suck at Omaha and that brings some advantage, it is also much more unpredictable and things swing wildly every street.
if you love Omaha you are welcome to go play PLO. I don't like the peer pressure of forcing people to play or guilt tripping them if they don't like it.
poker is supposed to be fun
agreed but just by not not being a moron you should be +ev in these especially against low stakes nl players.
I haven't played Omahahaha since before 2016 and I wasn't any good at it then. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I'm not so dumb as to play a game I hardly know for money.
If you feel like you have an advantage at NLHE and are not comfortable with Omaha there is no shame in sitting out BP. my home game does frequent Omaha bomb pots and there is so much variance that it's not something I like to join each time. yes there are people who suck at Omaha and that brings some advantage, it is also much more unpredictable and things swing wildly every st
One of the few good things about being a crotchety old bastid is I pretty much can't be guilt-tripped into anything, especially at the poker table.
poker is supposed to be fun
I agree with that, 100%.
The last time I was at Venetian it was regs that wanted to play it the most, not fish. It looked like some regs were using this as an attempt to win more money off the fish even faster.
I didn’t see anyone get pissed off if a player sat out. Fish didn’t care.
I don't play Venetian but the regs do the same thing at Bellagio.
That's why I'm done with bomb pots, most fish don't know what a bomb pot is and they don't care.
It's just the regs trying to angle shoot the fish because they don't know you have to win both boards to scoop.
I don't play Venetian but the regs do the same thing at Bellagio.
That's why I'm done with bomb pots, most fish don't know what a bomb pot is and they don't care.
It's just the regs trying to angle shoot the fish because they don't know you have to win both boards to scoop.
Literally every time someone who isn’t familiar with bomb pots asks how it works the regs and dealer explain it to them, and it doesn’t take a certified genius to figure out that each board is half the pot if you watch one or ask anyone.
In my experience over a few months playing regularly at V, almost every table has 6-9 players in every bomb pot. Any table I sit at where there’s a struggle to get enough players for them I just change tables. There’s a good chance the table is awful if nobody wants to play them.
If you feel like you have an advantage at NLHE and are not comfortable with Omaha there is no shame in sitting out BP. my home game does frequent Omaha bomb pots and there is so much variance that it's not something I like to join each time. yes there are people who suck at Omaha and that brings some advantage, it is also much more unpredictable and things swing wildly every st
I agree nobody should be forced or pressure into them at all. And if you don't like them you should sit out.
But a table full of players scared of gambling and variance is an awful table and it's time to change.
Hold em is the worst. Case in point.
Literally every time someone who isn’t familiar with bomb pots asks how it works the regs and dealer explain it to them, and it doesn’t take a certified genius to figure out that each board is half the pot if you watch one or ask anyone. In my experience over a few months playing regularly at V, almost every table has 6-9 players in every bomb pot. Any table I sit at where ther
Beginners are still going to play them horribly and that will happen when the pots are bigger. It’s why I usually am tempted to play.
Still not sure how I feel about this.
From my experience at Wynncore and at the room I played in Texas (and many other places), many PLO regs are terrible at bomb pots, too. I don't care who sits out, but I do mark them as a nit. If you have any clue what you are doing, DB PLO BPs are a gold mine.
FWIW, wj94, I'm never potting those flops 😉
If you people really like these, it looks like Venetian is having a tournament just for these in a week or two.
My fingers don't activate touch screens properly. I took 20,000 volts in an electronics lab class. You complain because I don't want to play as you do. Let's see you take 20,000 volts.
That sounds awful, yet fascinating. Can you share the story of what happened to you?
So, do most NL games at Bellagio feature PLO double board bomb pots, too?
Bellagio doesn't allow PLO bomb pots in NL games. Double board Holdem bomb pots are common in the 5-10, but fairly uncommon in games smaller than that. At least on the day shift.
No, they have a separate 5/5 PLO double board table.
That sounds awful, yet fascinating. Can you share the story of what happened to you?
Late one night when I was working on quantum experiments, a rogue lightning storm popped up...
Jus kiddin'. I don't know if anything "happened" to me. I just noticed that around high school age, I was taking electronics class, and there was a lot of exposed electricity in the lab area. There was one lab station that I was standing next to during a lecture. I grabbed a pole that they run the current feed through and felt a distinct buzzing. I let go and the buzzing stopped, touched it again, and it started again. I asked the teacher "Is this pole hot?". "Yeah, there's a short in it, don't touch it". It was kind of a dangerous classroom.
The 20k volts thing was a lab experiment to generate a carbon arc, like in searchlights. We hed a big transformer that stepped up 115v wall current to 20,000 volts. My dufus lab partner pushed the button and an arc jumped between two carbon poles. I told him to stop so I could align the carbon poles better. While I was adjusting the poles, Dufus pushed the button again. There were bakelite insulators on the adjustments, but 20,000 volts just laugh at them. "I think it's broken, the transformer isn't working". I assured him the transformer was working fine. It probably would've killed any other kid. As I mentioned, kind of a dangerous classroom.
This was way back when, as I'm old as dirt. I didn't notice any other manifestations until touch screens became more popular. Then what would usually happen is the touch screen wouldn't react. Or it would push like 4 times when I touched it once. Or as I would move my finger close to it, it would trigger whatever key my finger was closest to before I actually touched it. Similar things happened when I bought a tablet and tried using it resulting in major fail. Touch screens are supposed to use capacitance to function, so maybe somehow my capcitance is out of whack. The heart doc was looking me over once and said one of the signals to my heart was delayed, like it's out of synch. Weird, huh?
BTW, if you want to learn how to play PLO without losing a fortune, WSOP has Landmark satellites for $580, which is kind of a lot. But most cash games would burn through that kind of money in a hurry.
There are also $240 PLO Daily Deepstack tournaments every Wednesday.
Venetian has been running $15 bomb pot PLO double board game. I watched it for few minutes tonight, crazy action.
Planet Hollywood has this for $2 but I never see the game running, I might try it to practice up if they ever run it.
Does that go every day? Bellagio has a five dollar one every evening (200-1000 buy in) though as some mentioned it is a mix some days. Definitely was the most fun I had last time I was in Vegas though the action varies, usually there are drops ins though so def playable. It’s very entertaining though compared to same old no limit hold em. Interesting cast of characters.
Does that go every day? Bellagio has a five dollar one every evening (200-1000 buy in) though as some mentioned it is a mix some days. Definitely was the most fun I had last time I was in Vegas though the action varies, usually there are drops ins though so def playable. It’s very entertaining though compared to same old no limit hold em. Interesting cast of characters.
Yes the one at Venetian pretty much runs around the clock every day. It can get a bit crazy but usually it’s not that bad.
I haven't played Omahahaha since before 2016 and I wasn't any good at it then. I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I'm not so dumb as to play a game I hardly know for money.
Pig, being on this forum, and being as competent as you appear to be i could give you a 10 min tutorial on how to be an effective DB bomb pot player. I like omaha (never played higher than a 2/5 game) but have literally never read any strategy regarding double board and i feel im almost always the best player in these. And its not because I feel im an expert omaha player nor a split pot player.
Honestly, with an old man's imagine and if you played solid preflop, played in position, and being sure that if you were to continue beyond the flop you had a good shot at both boards- you'd easily be a profitable player.
The one drawback I dont like and I believe someone mentioned something about it is that you can grind and get up 3-400 bucks and in one bomb pot you lose it all. You get sucked into hands that have a lot of variance but you know you can't fold and its a bit frustrating. Youre left wondering "why the **** did i even get involved in this stupid pot, I was killing it".
The UK has something like this which IMO might be worth doing instead for those worried about fish going broke too quickly but tbh good luck getting it going. They call it a "Potfold". Basically its a PLO bomb pot, so at the lowest stakes it would be $5 or $10 preflop (I'd start with $5 but $10 would probably be more fun), but limits how much you can lose. Think I've seen GazzyB play one or two in his UK cash game vlogs and I've played a few myself.
Everyone gets 5 or 6 cards depending on number of players in the hand and go straight to a single board flop. Then, in turn, you either call the value of the pot (so in a $5 game with 8 players its $40 to call) or fold. Once everyone has either called or folded, deal out the rest of the board, and best hand wins. If table is 9 handed we tend to play 5 card, burn for flop, burn for turn and no burn for river.
Can still get a decent sized pot as most hands go 3 or 4 ways to the river, but fish can't go broke in one hand.
Late one night when I was working on quantum experiments, a rogue lightning storm popped up...Jus kiddin'. I don't know if anything "happened" to me. I just noticed that around high school age, I was taking electronics class, and there was a lot of exposed electricity in the lab area. There was one lab station that I was standing next to during a lecture. I grabbed a pole that
If you give me a piggyback ride at 88 mph, will we travel through time?
The one drawback I dont like and I believe someone mentioned something about it is that you can grind and get up 3-400 bucks and in one bomb pot you lose it all. You get sucked into hands that have a lot of variance but you know you can't fold and its a bit frustrating. Youre left wondering "why the **** did i even get involved in this stupid pot, I was killing it".
Isn't this one drawback the exact reason some players do not want to play and the exact reason others want to play?
