Capitol Casino's Big O Kill List Hits 17 Deep

Seventeen players are waiting for a single table of $6/12 Big O Kill at Capitol Casino in Sacramento — a line that would be remarkable for any game, let alone five-card Omaha Hi-Lo.

As of 1:00 a.m. PT on May 25, Capitol's Bravo listing shows one table running and 17 names stacked behind it. That's a 17-to-1 ratio of waiting players to open seats — enough demand to fill nearly two additional full tables if the room could spread them.

Seventeen names on the list, one table running, and the game isn't Hold'em — it's $6/12 Big O Kill in Sacramento.

The Number in Context

Capitol Casino's median waitlist for this game sits at 7. The current list is running 2.4 times that median — a surge that signals either a regular crew bringing extra action or a genuine demand spike that the room's floor staff hasn't been able to absorb with additional tables.

Big O itself is a niche spread. It's five-card Omaha Hi-Lo with a kill pot triggered when a player scoops, bumping the stakes temporarily. The game rewards patience, split-pot math, and a tolerance for variance that most Hold'em grinders don't have. Finding one table of it on a Bravo screen in California is already unusual. Finding 17 people trying to get into that one table is something else entirely.

Why Capitol

Capitol Casino sits on Fulton Avenue in Sacramento, well outside the tribal casino corridor that dominates California poker. It's a traditional card room — no slots, no table games, just cards. The room has built a loyal mixed-game following over the years, and the Big O Kill game appears to be the sharpest expression of that.

For comparison: most Sacramento-area rooms struggle to keep a single PLO table running past midnight. Capitol isn't just running Big O — it's turning away players at a rate that would make a Las Vegas poker room manager reconsider their game mix.

What It Means for the Broader Floor

A 17-deep waitlist on a single mixed-game table is the kind of signal that usually precedes a room adding a second spread. Whether Capitol has the dealers and floor staff to open another Big O Kill table is the open question. The demand, as of early May 25, is not.

If you're anywhere near Sacramento and you play split-pot games, Capitol Casino's $6/12 Big O Kill is where the action is concentrated. Just know that 17 other players had the same idea.