Re: Rumor: AZ to casinos to try to raise poker bet cap
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Interesting. I've been told the Tribes put the $150 cap in to begin with to limit poker's ability to compete with their new blackjack games ...
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Nope, it was not the casinos it was anti gambling activists that pushed for that one. The tribes got talked into backing it because they were told that the only way the bill that made it all legal would pass is if they could show there was no way for someone to lose thousands and thousands of dollars.
So instead of losing BJ and other table games, and having yet another round of legal fighting over gaming they took what was best as presented.
We protested and even made it on a the nightly news a couple of times, but for the most part poker players were simply looked as degenerate gamblers that were whining because we couldn't lose as much at one time.
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