Sunday Night PLO Lists Are Overflowing Coast to Coast

Hustler's PLO Phantom Table

It's 10 p.m. on a Sunday and 18 people are waiting for Hustler Casino's $10/$10/$20 PLO game, a game with zero tables running and a median waitlist of two. That ratio of nine times the normal list is the kind of number that screams unmet demand.

No table was spreading. Eighteen names sat on Bravo anyway.

Pennsylvania Rooms Stack Up

Hustler wasn't alone. Wind Creek Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania logged 11 names on its $2/$2 PLO list, also with zero tables open. The median waitlist for that game is just one. Eleven players showed up hoping a table would materialize on a Sunday night.

Across the state at Parx Casino in Bensalem, the $2/$2 PLO list carried eight names against two running tables. The median there sits at 2.5, putting Sunday's count at more than three times normal.

Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Follow the Pattern

Rivers Casino Des Plaines posted two PLO surges simultaneously. The $25/$25 five-card PLO (with a $500-$5,000 spread) had six waiting and one table open, against a median waitlist of 0.5. The $5/$5 PLO with a $500-$2,000 buy-in was even more crowded: 11 names waiting, one table running, and a median of two.

Maryland Live in Hanover had eight players queued for $2/$2 five-card PLO. Five tables were already in action, yet the list still ran nearly triple the room's median of three.

Florida Adds Fuel

Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood contributed two more data points. The $2/$2 PLO (eight-max) list showed eight names against three tables, double the median of four. The $5/$5 five-card PLO list ran nine deep with one table open, more than double its own median of four.

Even Omaha Hi-Lo Felt the Pull

The Orleans in Las Vegas posted seven names waiting for $4/$8 Omaha Hi-Lo with two tables running, 3.5 times the median of two. A limit game drawing that kind of overflow on a Sunday night is unusual for the off-Strip grind room.

The Numbers at a Glance

• Hustler Casino (Gardena, CA): 18 waiting, 0 tables, median 2
• Wind Creek Bethlehem (PA): 11 waiting, 0 tables, median 1
• Rivers Des Plaines (IL), $5/$5 PLO: 11 waiting, 1 table, median 2
• Rivers Des Plaines (IL), $25/$25 5-card PLO: 6 waiting, 1 table, median 0.5
• Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood (FL), 5-card PLO: 9 waiting, 1 table, median 4
• Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood (FL), $2/$2 PLO: 8 waiting, 3 tables, median 4
• Maryland Live (Hanover, MD): 8 waiting, 5 tables, median 3
• Parx Casino (Bensalem, PA): 8 waiting, 2 tables, median 2.5
• The Orleans (Las Vegas, NV): 7 waiting, 2 tables, median 2

Nine PLO or Omaha variants, seven different properties, five states. All surging past their median waitlists on the same Sunday night. Whatever is driving PLO demand right now, the floors are not keeping up.