Tourney How to introduce PLO and SOHE into the group. (1 Viewer)

[Mesnik44]

I host a monthly home game at my house. Some of the players in that group are experienced players ( @Gear @Wifey @T_Chan @Racer96 ) and some are not.

I have stolen a lot of ideas and rules from @T_Chan and one of those ideas is PLO. He hosted a tournament and I actually won it. It was the first time I've played it, and I had the basics down. So my question is this, how would you introduce PLO or any other new game into your group of players, that has not been played before.

 

[Pokerdweebz]

Only introduce 1-2 games at a time in a format where the players don't have to worry about getting destroyed. You could play lower stakes than usual, play a cheap tournament, or play full limit. Once I started introducing the new games to my players it's hard to get a hold'em game going anymore.

 

[CraigT78]

I host a monthly home game at my house. Some of the players in that group are experienced players ( @Gear @Wifey @T_Chan @Racer96 ) and some are not.

I have stolen a lot of ideas and rules from @T_Chan and one of those ideas is PLO. He hosted a tournament and I actually won it. It was the first time I've played it, and I had the basics down. So my question is this, how would you introduce PLO or any other new game into your group of players, that has not been played before.

I liked how we did it at SQM - a $20 tournament. It ran for 3 hours and I was able to learn the game without busting my bankroll.

Edit: We played Drawmaha, but still a cheap way to play a new game.

 

[Trihonda]

Typically, we introduced newer games at the end of the evening. Maybe the last two hours of a session. As it's getting later, someone brooches the idea "hey does anyone want to try out a new game?" I would also suggest trying to start with something that is less of a departure to get peoples comfort levels up. Trying a version of pineapple introduces folks to more than one card, but still stays very close to hold'em. .

Ultimately, the more we play these mixed games at the end of the hold 'em sessions, the more people get comfortable with them, and often times are the ones requesting we moved to these games sooner than later.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Agreed with the $20 tournament. SQM was my first time playing drawmaha. The bust-out aspect kept the "pot-pot-pot" hands to a minimum, allowing players new to the game the ability to focus on the game and not on their bankroll.

At my home game, which is almost always NLHE tournaments, I decided to add a "special format night" into the mix, albeit just once a year (8 games a year). I started by introducing a micro-stakes cash game. This year it will be Crazy Pineapple, and already have a limit cash game set for the year after that.

Sure, it will take forever - if ever - at this rate to bring in SOHE, but so what? If my players are still happy with NLHE, and I still love NLHE, then there is no need to rush into new games.

 

[upNdown]

Get out the nickels? Baby steps?
It's not easy. I think for a lot of people, once they "master" NLHE (even in just a first-level thinking sense) they cling to the game like a security blanket. And for my part, when I learned Omaha, I was intimidated by how big the pots got, especially for a game I had no "feel" for.
So maybe start with pineapple - that's pretty much the same game. But when you make the leap to Omaha, I thiink doing it with very low stakes might help.
SOHE? Huge leap. They need to be comfortable with Omaha first, AND with split pot games.
Edited to add - the above suggestion to do it in a tournament format with a low buy-in seems like a GREAT solution.