Tourney PLO Tournament Structure? (1 Viewer)

[MisterD]

Gang,

I run some weekly cash games (NLHE and PLO) and a NLHE Tournament and some players are requesting a PLO Tournament. I have never played in one (or even seen one) and I am having trouble finding example of structures online. Can anyone share any experience?

For the sake of comparison, our NLHE tournament is a $100 buy-in for 20K in chips. We play a BB-ante structure and start at 100/100/0 with 15-minute levels. We allow unlimited rebuys until the start of Level 7 and have a one-time add-on at that point as well. We start at 9 pm and are always done before 2 am... even with a group where the number of buy-ins is always more than twice the number of players.

Someone suggested that we use the same structure but I am worried that, because PLO has a slower pace of play, the tournament will last much too long.

Thoughts?

 

[JustinInMN]

The blind increases are still going to force the action regardless of how many hands per level are played.

But I don't know if I would speculate if there is a rule of thumb as to how big the blinds would be compared to chips in play to force the end of the tournament. The rule of thumb for hold'em that a lot of PCF posters use is 20 blinds in play.

But I don't think PLO would be that different.

 

[timinater]

Older thread discussing a PLO tourney. https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/omaha-tournaments-format-and-suprises.36745/#post-676829

 

[DaneWoj]

PLO plays slower just the sheer fact of pitching 4 cards. We gone away from full ring plo to only 6 max.

Also plo plays almost faster as the hands usually play themselves.