Date: 12/09/1999
From: Jim Geary
Newsgroups: rec.gambling.poker
Subject: Re: poker room a must!!!!
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Gary Carson wrote: > John A. D. Cervanyk wrote in message 384FDBE0.17E42F18@dnvr.uswest.net... > > Two (or three) other points why a poker room in every casino > >wouldn't work. First, there are only so many poker players. I don't > >believe they are enough of us to keep a room in every casino open. > >Second, do you really want to spread the games all over town? Wouldn't > >you rather have a few choice rooms to check out? > > A case in point is Lake Charles. When they had one cardroom the games where > great, the best 20/40 games I've ever seen anywhere. As soon as they opened > a second card-room the games where not as good. When they opened a 3rd > cardroom it became hard to even find a 20/40 game, the rooms where having to > spread more 10/20/40 because there just weren't enough 20/40 players to go > around consistently. Now that Players has closed their room I'd expect the > games to actually get a little better in the two remaining rooms. It's not > such a bad thing for a cardroom to close. Altho I agree that having the big games concentrated in one room is good for a community, the events cited may easily be attributable to a room opening up in a new community where players with money aren't that experienced. The good players get the money and the games dry up. I see it repeated many places. Perhaps Lake Charles just isn't big enough to support a large-scale poker economy. The multi-casino approach doesn't hurt Phoenix as all the bigger stakes players just play at one place by consensus, despite four other options. I would think that the consensus phenomenon would be present in any community where their is reasonable communication between regular players.
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