Ways to Bring Less Played Games to the Fore
Category: Poker
As everyone who plays online poker will have noticed, Omaha and Stud tournaments, as well as ring games, are sparsely populated compared to Holdem. I can understand this with the surge in popularity of Holdem recently, but you would think that players would take an interest in the other games once they tire of playing Holdem constantly.
It is my feeling that online sites should do more to promote these games by offering special tournaments or bonuses attached to the games. It would be a shame if all the new poker rooms didn’t offer anything except Holdem because nobody ever played the other games.
Even in live events you always find people playing Holdem tournaments, but how often do you see Omaha games being held? For this reason I am trying to drum up some interest in this game from the regular Holdem players as I feel it offers an exciting alternative to the normal Holdem game. Offering these side games as a smaller buy in tournament helps attract interest of course, as people are never keen to risk money on a game they aren’t too familiar with.
In terms of online poker rooms it would be quite simple to get players into Omaha or Stud rooms, you would just have to offer double the player points in these games. Although players developing likes and dislikes for games is not something we can change entirely, I think as players, we should take the time to play different games so that the old favourites are not lost.