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I'm looking at reality. This is like all the baseball fans down here who every year think the state's going to pay for a baseball stadium and then every year they don't. That's not to compare the two issues, but to point out the blind optimism of those folks who can't see past their nose to understand the reality of the situation.

Believe me, I'd love to see it happen. I'll be out at the cardrooms every day playing if it does. But I just don't think it will. In the current situation, the House has five days to deal with three huge issues -- property taxes, homeowners insurance, a baseball stadium. They also are getting a lot of pressure on the no-fault auto insurance issue.

The poker issue has no support in Tallahassee. None. Cardrooms do not support this particular bill because, as you pointed out, it would double their licensing fees for something that wouldn't come close to doubling their revenues. From the legislative standpoint, the extra revenues the state would get from doubling license fees on poker tables is a drop in the bucket.

I'd love to see this happen. But if I were betting on it, I'd give 10:1 that this bill just dies under a pile of other ones this week.

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