How many hands per hour in a typical casino game?
 

Just wondering about how many hands you see an hour in Omaha 8b. I remember last time each hand at showdown could seemingly 1 minute to sort out the winners, especially with a couple of the dealers that weren't too bright.

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well in Tx. holdem it seems that 35 is average. so omaha must be considerably less thatn that. maybe 20??!! I do not play in casino's though, so just a guess. dam, that would suck to play live

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icemanjmw - The casinos have shuffling machines now, which speed up things a bit.

You're right about some of the dealers being obtuse, but most of them do a fine job. However, you do have to be alert to the pot being awarded incorrectly.

I think roughly thirty hands per hour is a fair approximation.

Buzz

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Loose-aggro full games can be as slow as 20 hph. I have seen fewer than 10 hands per dealer in my regular game. I think the best dealers might get 15 hands in if there are a few scoop hands and a few hands that don't go to showdown.
Shuffle machines would improve on this. (Sigh!)

Effen

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The casinos have shuffling machines now, which speed up things a bit.

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Not all of them. In fact, at Tulalip in Washington, every table but the Omaha table has shuffling machines.

In terms of speed, its up to the dealer's competence.

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anything over 25 hph is decent, over 30 and you have competent knowledgable dealers who have the pot already split before showdown and can pick hi/lo hands quickly with accuracy.

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on a side note, anyone do anything else while playing omaha hi-lo live, since the game is so slow? like read a book or something? i've tried to play it live, but always get impatient and play too loose since i usually multi-table it online.

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I think roughly thirty hands per hour is a fair approximation.

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You may get to (or surpass) thirty hands per hour at a tight higher limit game without many showdowns. At a small or medium limit game with a lot of action and many showdowns, you will rarely get to 30 hph.

(Benefit: Much easier to go to the bathroom during O8 without missing a hand.)

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[quote(Benefit: Much easier to go to the bathroom during O8 without missing a hand.)

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ROFL , I have hurt my knee and knocked over old lady slot players trying to do this in hold'em.

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on a side note, anyone do anything else while playing omaha hi-lo live, since the game is so slow? like read a book or something? i've tried to play it live, but always get impatient and play too loose since i usually multi-table it online.

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I usually contemplate suicide.

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on a side note, anyone do anything else while playing omaha hi-lo live, since the game is so slow?

[/ QUOTE ]Tweak - I'm genuinely interested in what starting hands my opponents play, and how they play them. The whole time I'm sitting out a hand, I'm trying to figure out what cards my various opponents might be holding in order to compel them to play as they do. Understanding why people do the things they do has always been interesting to me and in an Omaha-8 game, figuring what cards people might have seems rather like a puzzle. Sometimes I get it right.

But if you play about three hands out of ten, which is about how often I generally see the flop at a typical casino table when not posting the big blind, sometimes you'll have a streak of what at least seems like too many hands in a row where you toss your cards into the muck before the flop. I agree it can be a drag when that happens. I don't have a solution for the problem.

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like read a book or something?

[/ QUOTE ]I need to stay focused on the game. I'm no good at all at multi-tasking. I get to concentrating on something and can be oblivious to what else needs to be done. I'd get interested in what I was reading and not be able to focus back on the game fast enough.

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i've tried to play it live, but always get impatient and play too loose since i usually multi-table it online.

[/ QUOTE ]Yikes. A lapse in self-control can be expensive.

Buzz

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[noob] Is there any point in playing o8 live at all? (other than fun) I imagine you must be playing sick stakes AND have a ring of fish to show a profit that is even close to multitabling online potential [/noob]

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20-25 if dealers are standard.