Re: Why don\'t cardrooms spread NL smaller than $1/2?
 

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For years, St Louis players traveling down to Tunica would bring a roll of quarters to whatever game they were playing, as they thought tipping $1/hand was extravagant. I guess all the boats in STL had coins on the table.

This practice has since stopped. Having just read "Freak-onomics", I feel it is my duty to hypothesize on why this is so. I figure that either:

A. STL no longer uses quarters.

B. The introduction of coinless slots and the death of $1-5 7-stud makes it a lot harder nowadays to get your hands on a roll of quarters in a casino.

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This doesn't make sense since St. Louis never used real quarters in the casino. It's one of those loss limit states so all .25 slots were played with tokens. I'm trying to think back to my 1-4 stud days and what we used to tip with...

Come to think of it, they'd take rake and make change with the .25 tokens and then you'd tip in the coins. What a bunch of crap. I miss stud but I don't miss the tokens.

Re: Because They Are Doing the Players a Favor
 

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In Cali maybe. In areas where 10% to X max it's not possible to rake 20%.

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No way could California play 40MAX NL with .50/1.00 blinds. How would this work at the commerce.

Folded to the sb who throws a 2nd peach chip to call the buck. BB raps the table to see a flop. Two bucks in the pot, 1 take for the BB drop. 1 dollar in the pot.

SB bets a buck into the $1.00 pot. BB calls. Dealer takes $3.00 out of the pot for the drop, pot sits at ZERO. Turn checked down, river dealt, sb bets out a buck into the zero pot, bb folds, dealer takes last buck to completed the $4.00 drop per hand, Dealer ships the virtual pot to the sb, new hand.

That would go over well.

Re: Why don\'t cardrooms spread NL smaller than $1/2?
 

If I am a casino manager, I will say like this.

"I don't care what you(players) do in my table, but I need a profit of $5000 in 24 hours" -One tables should pay about $200 every hour.

That means, we need to pay at least $4 every hand. I don't think the players in 0.5/1 or 0.25/0.5 like to pay $4 every hand.

Re: Because They Are Doing the Players a Favor
 

Good point.....some pots would have a 100% rake.

Re: Because They Are Doing the Players a Favor
 

In Florida, where the buyin is capped at $100 by law, a 50c/$1.00 NL game would allow us to play with bigger stacks -- 100BB instead of 50BB. I think that's an attractive reason to play a lower-blind game where you have a low capped buyin.

My local casino still uses 25c and 50c chips for the rake, so that part of the question is not a problem. Now, whether it would generate enough profit? I don't know.

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1/1 NL 100 max, 10% rake to $4 ftw

Re: Because They Are Doing the Players a Favor
 

"I don't care what you(players) do in my table, but I need a profit of $5000 in 24 hours" -One tables should pay about $200 every hour.


$200/hour?? your not even close. Poker Tables average $80 - $120...nost leaning towrds the $80.

Re: Because They Are Doing the Players a Favor
 

lol at this thread

play in home games if the idea of putting up SIXTY WHOLE DOLLARS to play a min buyin for 1/2 bothers you.

Re: Why don\'t cardrooms spread NL smaller than $1/2?
 

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well if the action is that wild in all of them, then that must mean they don't need to create 50c/1 games =p

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You hit the nail right on the head.

Re: Why don\'t cardrooms spread NL smaller than $1/2?
 

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If I am a casino manager, I will say like this.

"I don't care what you(players) do in my table, but I need a profit of $5000 in 24 hours" -One tables should pay about $200 every hour.

That means, we need to pay at least $4 every hand. I don't think the players in 0.5/1 or 0.25/0.5 like to pay $4 every hand.

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Where is this mythical casino that generates 50 hands an hour?