Last week, in an early Christmas gift to its players, Party Poker introduced $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha tables.

Party Poker is well known for its high-stakes Limit Holdem offerings, but hasn’t had much in the way of high-stakes No Limit and Pot Limit cash games. But with the increasing popularity of Omaha among major leaguers (like Phil Ivey), and Pot Limit Omaha (aka PLO) in particular, it seems the PartyPoker team finally feels the time is right to branch out to the high-rolling PLO players.

And not a moment too soon. Just as point (or two) of comparison, Full Tilt Poker has high-stakes PLO cash tables ranging from $50/$100 to $500/$1,000 (a popular fave with Ivey); and Poker Stars has them at $100/$200 and $200/$400 levels.

Of course one of the biggest differences between FullTilt, PokerStars, and PartyPoker is that the first two serve U.S. customers (and have a huge U.S. showing at their nosebleed PLO tables), but Party Poker does not. So that might mean players from the rest of the world can enjoy some heavy hitting Pot Limit Omaha action without all the U.S. sharks bloodying up their waters.