Stud High/Low players Unite! Let's Get the Stud-8 game @ Lucky Chances RUNNING! (&/or PLO8)
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Folks.... I'm a huge fan of 7-Card Stud high/low, ya know, the E in H.O.R.S.E. I was recently on Lucky Chances' website and noticed that they're licensed to spread Stud-8 @ $2/4 or $4/8. They also have $2/3/5 Pot Limit Omaha-8, but none of these games run. If any of us picture the board @ Lucky's, we know why.... for openers, they don't list the games as even being available. Anyhow, since Garden City closed down their S8 game, it's dead, outside home-games. It's my favorite limit game, and I play it quite a bit online.
I spoke to somebody over there today, and they said they'd gladly spread either game, including either level of S8, if I "walked in w/ 9 guys" and asked them to. I know there are a lot of closet eight-or-better junkies out there in the Bay Area, most of them @ Omaha tables and dealer's choice or mixed home-games. Oaks has its $6/12 Omaha night. I'd like to get enough people interested, where we could possibly get a Stud high/low game running, @ Lucky Chances, even if it's a monthly thing... Weekly would be awesome. My schedule is very flexible, and I could do this any night of the week, night or day, and I'm also happy to take point on "calling the list" and making sure it's worth showing up etc.
So, I'm hoping to rally the Stud-8 players in the area... Just know that Lucky Chances will spread it. Aside from Oaks adding spread and Napa working on starting a PLO game (PLO high, regular "PLO"), nothing original ever happens here. The assume there is no demand for these games, but I know so many people who play mixed games online and/or stud players who would love to sit in a Stud-8 game. I know 4-5 Oaks regulars who would be interested in this Stud-8 game, but I might not run into them all soon, so I'm posting this...
I think it's the Cadillac of limit poker, certainly the most "complicated" and misunderstood limit game. If we did get a game running, even short-handed, I bet some players from the never-ending $2/4 Stud high board @ LC would sit down and put their $ in VERY BAD, thinking that because they can play 7-Stud and have 1/2 a clue about Omaha-8, that they'll be ok @ our table. IE: they'd play
like it was 
, and I'm sure we'd pick up some dead $. I bet, if we start 6-handed, we have a full table in a half hour, IF they'll put it on the board. *which they would, if I gave them some notice that we were coming, on a certain night/day.I live in Oakland, but I play Lucky's, and I'd love to facilitate getting this game running. I'm a regular @ the $4/8 Stud @ Oaks and just took down a 4-way chop in the 7-Stud tournament they threw last weekend. I am not saying this to brag: Point is, I love all Stud games. I play only Stud, Stud-8, and H.O.R.S.E online, preferring to play big-bet poker (no-limit etc) live, and I hate to see Stud dying out like this. Yes, I'm a young guy, 31, but I'm a huge fan of "the other games." I know most of the other S8 players in the Bay Area are probably older fellows. Fine... I'm used to being the "kid" @ a stud table. Let's just work on getting that game running??? I'd prefer $4/8, but I'd gladly sit $2/4 Stud-8... and they'll spread it for us.
Anybody interested? How about the PLO8 game? (I assume it has a $500 cap) It's a big ole' casino, and this whole poker community runs on supply and demand. If we show a demand, they game will start, and S8 players will come out of the word-work. W/ the amount of PLO8 I see being played online (seems to be eclipsing the popularly of PLO high), just know they'd spread that game too. We just have to ask, take the initiative, etc.
Thanks! GL. Play good.
CL
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