Seven Deep for a Game That Exists Exactly Once on Bravo

One Table, Seven Names, Zero Comparisons

Running Aces in Columbus, Minnesota, has seven players queued for a single table of $4/$20 spread-limit Omaha Hi — a game format that appears exactly once in the entire Bravo national dataset as of May 20.

That's a 7:1 waitlist-to-table ratio. The median waitlist for the game at Running Aces sits at one name. On the evening of May 20, it spiked to seven.

That's a 7:1 waitlist-to-table ratio — for a game format that appears exactly once in the entire Bravo national snapshot.

Spread-limit Omaha Hi — not Hi-Lo, not pot-limit, not the PLO that dominates every high-stakes stream — is a format you almost never see listed on Bravo. The $4/$20 spread structure caps raises at $20 regardless of pot size, creating an action dynamic that looks nothing like the uncapped PLO games running at Bellagio or the Wynn. It's a low-volatility Omaha variant tucked inside a harness-racing track 25 miles north of downtown Minneapolis.

And seven people want in.

Why the Ratio Matters

A 7:1 waitlist ratio at a single-table game is functionally a different phenomenon than a 7:1 ratio across a 20-table room. When the Bellagio posts seven names waiting for $1/$3 NLH, three or four tables are already running and the floor can open another. At Running Aces, there's one Omaha Hi table. Period. Every name on that list is waiting for a specific seat at a specific game that may not replicate anywhere within a thousand miles.

The eight-handed format (designated "8H" in the Bravo listing) means exactly eight seats. Seven waiting means the room could nearly double its Omaha Hi capacity if it chose to spread a second table — assuming a dealer and enough demand to sustain both.

The Broader Snapshot

Running Aces isn't a room that typically headlines national Bravo chatter. It sits in Columbus, Minnesota — a small city in Anoka County, about 30 minutes from Canterbury Park, the state's better-known card room. But on this particular evening, its waitlist ratio for a single niche game outpaces what most Vegas rooms post for their flagship hold'em spreads.

No other room in the May 20 Bravo snapshot lists a spread-limit Omaha Hi game at any stakes. The format is an outlier by definition — and seven players lining up for it suggests a local demand pocket that doesn't register in any national trend.

What the Number Tells You

Seven names on one list, one table, one room, one format. The game is small. The demand is not. Whether Running Aces opens a second table or those seven names cycle through as seats open, the signal is the same: somewhere north of Minneapolis, spread-limit Omaha Hi has a following that Bravo almost never captures.