The casino I frequent is drying up...

[Al_Capone_Junior]

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Al, can you draw a graph of the total mass of fishes in poker from 1850 through today?




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I can make the mostest awesome-est graphs on excel, a rollover skill from certain jobs I've held in the past. However, I'm not much of an expoit on getting various media types into posts on 2+2 :-(

Al

[RR]

This why in the pre-boom days casinos would not spread NL. They started spreading it with the boom because people that had never played poker in a casino were coming in demanding it.

[nineinchal]

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This why in the pre-boom days casinos would not spread NL. They started spreading it with the boom because people that had never played poker in a casino were coming in demanding it.

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Just like when cigars were hot. Time to start shorting NL.

[MrMore]

I don't think so Al, but only time will tell. I think limit will dry up first. Then deep-stack NL. Middle-stack NL will be the last to go.

[steamboatin]

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This why in the pre-boom days casinos would not spread NL. They started spreading it with the boom because people that had never played poker in a casino were coming in demanding it.

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Just like when cigars were hot. Time to start shorting NL.

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Cigars are making a comeback.

[johnc]

The NL action in my particular, small CA casino is really getting alot tougher, overall. It seems as though the tables have a greater strong player to weak/fish ratio. The limit action, curiously, seems stronger than ever which probably indicates the fish have had enough of being beaten at the NL tables and have went back to limit.

[One Outer]

Ugh, people have been saying that this was going to happen for years. And they're absolutely right. There's a reason that NL was never played as a cash game anymore before the poker boom.

Limit games are going to make a comeback, thank god. I see this everyday at Canterbury Park. Just yesterday afternoon I was playing with an old guy that absolutely sucks. He's been playing there for years, and although I don't know his name I can remember playing with him three years ago. He was up like a rack and having a great time. This never happens in the NL games. He would have sworn off poker forever a long time ago if we had NL here.

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Cigars never went away.

[knifeandfork]

wow this actually turned in to a thread! This thread reminds me a little bit of that old school book i read by George Wallace about" poker a guaranteed income for life " Here in VA we have had very juicy games for a long time now but i have noticed a few more skilled players filtering in. thinkers still get a piece of the pie that has not grown big enough in relation though.
more on track with the thread almost all games here that were nlhe are now 1/2 nlOhigh 1/2 nlhe and i think this shows a trend (that is good) towards people being tired of only nlhe. We get more action in the omaha games and the pots are 70% LIMPED by 70% of the players (at 5/10 given).
I would love to see OESHT as the next big game myself as there is one mixed game now that i drive an hour to get to but its the most profitable game i play in (10/20 limit). that is in part my fault due to a thin bankroll not capable of playing the deep stack games here properly and having to short stack and nit it up. so cheers to limit mixed games being the next big thing
jason

[Rick Nebiolo]

...the bar at Hawaiian Gardens on what should be a slow period (in this case last (Monday) night just before midnight) and watch the twenty tables they squeeze in that little space in action.

My observation is that this is the most successful Los Angeles card club at spreading low fixed buy NL games. By successful I mean these games are a higher percentage of the clubs total action and the tables in the section are utilized more heavily than any other section in Los Angeles (and it isn't close).

Of course the structures are what most on this forum disdain. The "big game" is 1-2 blinds with a $40 fixed buy and the small game is 1-1 blinds with a $20 fixed buy! All I can say is that this structure along with the party atmosphere takes the fear out of playing but keeps the fun in. The combination of the bar, the young staff, the fast chip runners and general level of goofiness keeps it packed almost all the time. That can't be said of the equivalent section in the Commerce or any other club (except perhaps the Hustler, which simply doesn't have enough tables).

Las Vegas cardroom managers really need to take a look at this as the crowds in their deep stack games dwindle. While at the bar stick to those extra cold 16 ounce beers served in the aluminum bottles; for mixed drinks I think HG is too careful on the pour.

~ Rick