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Originally Posted by DaveC95818
"The action hasn't dried up in any other locales with no limit......"
"The 100 limit highly encourages bad play............"
The Action, IMO, is always enhanced with speed limits. Bad players will lose their money slowly, instead of all at once. And, action does indeed dry up when all you have around is No Limit Hold'em. Look at the number of tables on the Las Vegas strip, and the Quarterly Reports of the 2+2 State of Las Vegas Poker on this forum. That number keep shrinking, even before the current virus problems.
This observation has been around for years, and has always been proven out.
The very founder of this forum, Mason M., co-wrote a book years ago with one Donna Harris, (The Poker Dealers Handbook) who was the poker manager at The Mirage. It was Harris' famous prediction that, long-term, No Limit Poker would be the very death of Poker itself. She reasoned that most of the money would end up in the hands of the very few, the very best, and completely drive out the rec and novice players. It is documented that she fought the move to NLTH at Mirage; and pretty much paid for that stance with her job. Later moving on to The Wynn, she didn't last long there either with insistence on lower BI's and attempts to keep Limit Poker alive.
Just observe how many tables Black Hawk has now, compared to five or ten years ago. How many places even spread a game? How many average active tables once poker resumes?
I think many of you are falsely assuming all spread limit games will switch to no limit. Why would you think that? This will only add more options to game selection. There will be plenty of players who still want to play spread limit. You'll see some no limit games and some spread limit games at all of the poker rooms. The older crowd will often choose the spread limit games, or at least that's my assumption.
Also remember, there are only 2 states with betting caps, South Dakota at $1,000 and Colorado at $100. That means of the 40+ states that have poker rooms, 38+ are no limit, and poker seems to be doing just fine. Tournament entries are a good barometer for poker's popularity. Entries keep increasing on average across most poker markets.
I'm going by the numbers here, not emotion or opinion.