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#1
10-13-2007, 05:52 PM
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Is the boom over or just a down turn
So I have been play at Casino AZ lately on Friday nights. I have been playing irregularly at CAZ for years. In the past couple of years you would never see a Friday night with an open table, long wait lists for most games.
But the last couple of weekends, this has not been the case. Several open tables, no long lists. I am not sure if that is a result of the poker boom cooling off or the housing market crash. It should be noted that a fair amount of the money in the poker economy at CAZ is the result of developers. Anyone else see this in their rooms? 
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#2
10-13-2007, 06:20 PM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
football season?
Diamondbacks fever? tourney going on in LA? promotion at a competing casino? other reasons? overall I feel like such things tend to go in waves. If there were several people who had to sit around for a long time and wait for their name to come up on the list then their experience isn't going to be as enjoyable and they will be less likely to come running back the following week. When things get over-crowded like that I think some people tend to only have so much patience for it so it will tend to balance out and be kind of self-balancing. In other words, if they had more room and more tables there so that nobody had to wait perhaps the demand would have remained high.
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#3
10-13-2007, 10:05 PM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
For the last month I have been traveling to play.
Las Vegas to Tunica to Foxwoods and places in between, I do not see much if any down turn in poker. Only problem most are seeing is poker room saturation which spreads games around more. I am back in Las Vegas now doing an upgrade on motor homes then back on the road I go. Don O---
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#5
10-14-2007, 03:55 AM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
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Boom is over. I saw something tonight I thought I'd never see - an empty table at 8 pm on a Saturday evening at Bay 101. [/ QUOTE ] I agree. Ever since they raised the drop at most of the LA rooms the number of players have dropped and sometimes it's been significant. Hustler on a Saturday afternoon had only 2 tables of 1/2 NL going. A few months before it would have been 6.
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#6
10-15-2007, 12:11 PM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
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Boom is over. I saw something tonight I thought I'd never see - an empty table at 8 pm on a Saturday evening at Bay 101. [/ QUOTE ] I don't know about the boom being over, but if Bay did the same as Garden City and bumped their rake, it probably just pissed off enough people. GC went from 1/3 on a 3-100 table with a $4 max rake to 1/2/3 with a $5 rake on any hand not chopped. Blind stealing is non-existent and even first-in raising from LP is almost gone. Raise PF and it folds around and whee!, you just made $1. Chopping is required if folded to the blinds, even if you have AA. Raise from the blinds and you LOSE money. Thankfully the game at GC is still quite loose.
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#8
10-14-2007, 02:46 PM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
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If there were several people who had to sit around for a long time and wait for their name to come up on the list then their experience isn't going to be as enjoyable and they will be less likely to come running back the following week. [/ QUOTE ] "Nobody goes there anymore; It's too crowded." --Yogi Bera.
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#9
10-14-2007, 04:07 AM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
The poker rooms aren't empty - but the Poker Boom is really, really over. Most of the boom came from the internet and people who wanted to have a little fun and play some poker on their computer, then those people later decided to try it out in a live casino. But now Bill Frist and the Republicans have put the hammer down, killed neteller, made the majority of the sites leave the US, and you have to jump through so many time consuming hoops to even TRY to get money online even if you want to try to after you hear on the news that Online poker is Illegal, and that the FBI is warning people not to play poker online.
Oh yeah the boom is way over.
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#10
10-14-2007, 04:59 PM
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Re: Is the boom over or just a down turn
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But now Bill Frist and the Republicans have put the hammer down, killed neteller, made the majority of the sites leave the US, and you have to jump through so many time consuming hoops to even TRY to get money online even if you want to try to after you hear on the news that Online poker is Illegal, and that the FBI is warning people not to play poker online. [/ QUOTE ] What probably has almost as much to do with it is many people (I am one of them) don't trust online sites to deal a square game.
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