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Based on how the FL gov't has been over the past 5+ years, I am merely going to just cross my fingers. Remember the Marlins' ballpark debacle (which is still going on)? They also have to work on property tax stuff to make that more palatable, not to mention stop the gouging of home insurance (my home insurance is nearly $4000, for all of you living elsewhere and paying 10% of that).

The fact is, making the poker rooms go to a $5 max bet and a $100 NL game is not going to be as great as you all think, nor will it bring in the kind of tax dollars you all think. While it will raise interest in poker in Florida, making the poker rooms more full than normal, the amount of money it will bring in to the state will be a drop in the bucket compared to what they need (just like the U.S. legalizing online poker -- the federal tax benefits just isn't enticing enough).

Furthermore, seeing as how these rooms charge the most insane rakes in the universe on their games and tourneys now, I can see a MINIMUM $6/pp time charge per dealer in the no limit game, which makes the $100NL a farce unless you get lucky and build a monster stack. And to do that, you'll have to sit in for a few hours, then stay for a few hours, which will cost you quite a bit, all things considered.

The only positive is that the play down here is so downright awful that anyone with any sense of what they are doing should do moderately well in a $100NL game.

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Don't get me started on the rake [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]