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12-05-2006, 11:59 PM
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Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
At the casino I go to, $1/2 NL is the big rage. I was recently told by a senior person at the casino that the casino hates it but they have no choice but to spread it as it is what players want. What they are seeing is that players who played limit several times a week before this game was available are now going broke regularly and come less often. However, there seems to be a steady stream of new players to replace them. I don't think we'll see the buy in cap removed since the government has so much control in this area.
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12-06-2006, 02:04 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
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I don't think we'll see the buy in cap removed since the government has so much control in this area. [/ QUOTE ] We may need a poll here, but I was too lazy to do one. The OP is either: A. A danger to himself and others, and should be institutionalized. B. Capable of sarcasm beyond the understanding of mere mortals.
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12-06-2006, 04:27 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
Ghazban, benfranklin,
State governments often exercise control over poker room rules within their states. In Colorado, I believe the maximum bet allowed in a limit game is $5. I'm not sure how this has changed since the popularity of no-limit hold 'em in recent years. I know in other areas no-limit hold 'em isn't allowed and some rooms stretch the law to the max by offering something like 1-200 spread limit hold 'em.
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12-06-2006, 10:54 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
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Ghazban, benfranklin, State governments often exercise control over poker room rules within their states. In Colorado, I believe the maximum bet allowed in a limit game is $5. I'm not sure how this has changed since the popularity of no-limit hold 'em in recent years. I know in other areas no-limit hold 'em isn't allowed and some rooms stretch the law to the max by offering something like 1-200 spread limit hold 'em. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, I'm aware of that. It is my understanding that the government has regulated a maximum bet size, hence the spread limit games where the top of the spread is the maximum bet legally allowed. However, this has nothing to do with maximum buyins nor do I see any way it could be applied to them.
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12-07-2006, 03:48 AM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
Anyone want to discuss Mason's suggested caps?
If I have to play in a capped NL game, I agree with a 100X BB buy-in at a minimum, but would personally prefer a 200X BB max buy-in and a deeper game. Currently, I play a lot of non-capped NL games and am usually comfortable starting with 150-200 BBs. (This is partially dependent on my opponent's stacks at the table...I've started deeper.) For either capped or non-capped NL games, I also believe that there should be a minimum buy-in of 100 SBs.
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12-12-2006, 04:58 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
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[ QUOTE ] Ghazban, benfranklin, State governments often exercise control over poker room rules within their states. In Colorado, I believe the maximum bet allowed in a limit game is $5. I'm not sure how this has changed since the popularity of no-limit hold 'em in recent years. I know in other areas no-limit hold 'em isn't allowed and some rooms stretch the law to the max by offering something like 1-200 spread limit hold 'em. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, I'm aware of that. It is my understanding that the government has regulated a maximum bet size, hence the spread limit games where the top of the spread is the maximum bet legally allowed. However, this has nothing to do with maximum buyins nor do I see any way it could be applied to them. [/ QUOTE ] If they can legislate how much you can bet, is it really such a stretch to legislate how much you can bring to the table? Doesn't sound like a long way to go to me. True, they haven't done it before, but that doesn't make it absurd.
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12-12-2006, 05:09 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
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If they can legislate how much you can bet, is it really such a stretch to legislate how much you can bring to the table? Doesn't sound like a long way to go to me. True, they haven't done it before, but that doesn't make it absurd. [/ QUOTE ] It's much easier to legislate/regulate max bet size than buy in. For games with a max limit, what would be the point of restricting buy in size(legislation-wise)? How would they legislate a max buy in on a BJ table when you don't even have to have all the money on the table? You can just keep rebuying per hand. b
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12-12-2006, 06:18 PM
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Re: Re Publisher\'s Note - Spreading NL in casinos
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[ QUOTE ] If they can legislate how much you can bet, is it really such a stretch to legislate how much you can bring to the table? Doesn't sound like a long way to go to me. True, they haven't done it before, but that doesn't make it absurd. [/ QUOTE ] It's much easier to legislate/regulate max bet size than buy in. For games with a max limit, what would be the point of restricting buy in size(legislation-wise)? How would they legislate a max buy in on a BJ table when you don't even have to have all the money on the table? You can just keep rebuying per hand. b [/ QUOTE ] In Missouri they do in effect cap the buy-in. Something to the effect of only being able to buy $500 in a 3 hour period...or something like that.
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