MGM Grand Detroit Posted a 20:1 PLO Waitlist Ratio on May 23

At midnight in Detroit, ten players were waiting for a single table of $5/$10/$20 pot-limit Omaha at MGM Grand.

That's a 20:1 ratio against the room's own median waitlist for that game — and the deepest mid-stakes PLO demand signal anywhere in the country on the night of May 23.

Ten players waiting for a single table of $5/$10/$20 PLO at MGM Grand Detroit — a 20:1 ratio against the room's own median.

The Numbers

MGM Grand Detroit was spreading exactly one table of $5/$10/$20 PLO when the waitlist spiked. The room's median waitlist for that game sits at 0.5 — meaning on a typical session, there's barely half a name on the list. Ten names is twenty times that baseline.

This wasn't a $1/$2 NLHE crush where twenty recreational players pile onto four tables. This was a mid-stakes PLO game with a triple blind structure, attracting a crowd that knows what a pot-limit raise from the big blind looks like.

Why Detroit

Detroit doesn't show up on most players' radar when they think about PLO action. That distinction usually goes to rooms in South Florida, Texas, or the Las Vegas Strip. But MGM Grand Detroit has quietly maintained a PLO spread, and the demand on May 23 suggests a player pool that's outstripping the room's capacity to seat it.

One table. Ten names deep. That's a room that could have filled a second — or third — table if the seats existed.

What It Means for the Floor

A 20:1 ratio is a supply problem, not a demand anomaly. When a room's median waitlist rounds to zero and then spikes to double digits, it signals either a one-off event drawing action players to the property or a sustained pocket of PLO demand that the room hasn't staffed for.

Either way, the floor at MGM Grand Detroit had a problem most rooms would love to have: more players wanting to sit $5/$10/$20 PLO than they could accommodate.

For PLO grinders scanning Bravo from their couches, the takeaway is simple. Detroit had the hottest mid-stakes PLO seat in America on the night of May 23 — and it wasn't close.