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[QUOTE="DS3, post: 5364372, member: 407846"]
I love PLO (Omaha in general)  but the style of play has changed rapidly in recent years as it has gained popularity.

Just a few years ago PLO was played in a more deliberate and measured way (particularly in top flite tournaments). Quite recently PLO got traction on TV because it was/is promoted as a wild game. I remarked on this before regarding PokerGo's coverage or streams from the Kings Casino.

They feature wealthy and wild gamblers who frequently plow all in pre-flop and fight for huge pots. This bears little relation to the game I was first attracted to. Some might recall a short while ago content providers would not feature PLO because it was regarded as too complicated and too slow.

In fact Brent Hanks of PokerGo exposed a certain level of ignorance regarding PLO very recently. He both formats the Poker After Dark  sessions (which have featured some of the high roller mentioned above) and is occasionally drafted in to commentate, as he was for the  British Poker Open in London last month.

After featuring (pointedly) the likes of Leon, Aussie Matt and Rob Yong in a few wild and swingy PLO sessions on Poker After Dark, Hanks seemed confused during commentary for the British Open PLO play.

Surprisingly (as it seemed to appear to him) the players took the game seriously.
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