Nine Deep for $10/$20 Omaha Hi-Lo in Dayton, Ohio — Zero Tables Running

The deepest waitlist in American poker after midnight Eastern wasn't at the Bellagio or the Aria — it was at Mad River Poker Club in Dayton, Ohio.

Nine players put their names on the list for a $10/$20 Omaha Hi-Lo game at Mad River, according to Bravo data captured just after midnight on July 14. Zero tables were running. That 9-to-0 ratio made it the highest waitlist-to-table figure at any tracked room in the country at that hour.

Nine players put their names on the list for a $10/$20 Omaha Hi-Lo game at Mad River, according to Bravo data captured just after midnight on July 14.

What the Number Means

The median waitlist for the game sits at one name. Nine is not a rounding error — it's nine times the typical demand, all stacking up on a night when nobody could get a seat.

Mad River isn't a marquee room. It doesn't show up on poker-media leaderboards or stream schedules. But Bravo classified this as a big game, and nine names deep for a mixed-limit split-pot game in southwest Ohio suggests real, sustained demand for mid-stakes action outside the usual corridors.

Why It Matters

Mid-stakes Omaha Hi-Lo isn't a game that generates waitlists like this at most rooms in the country. A $10/$20 O8 list nine deep — in Dayton — signals either a thriving local player pool or a one-off surge that caught the room flat-footed with no table open.

Either way, the data point is hard to ignore: for at least one moment overnight, the hottest poker seat in America was in Ohio.