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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
Is this true? I think it would be very interesting to get a consensus of where most of us played.
I live in a fairly big city with suburbs that at one time had 7 rooms, most with 8+ tables. Now down to 5 rooms, most with < 8 tables, a lot of rooms only featuring one or two games (in our room basically only 1/3 NL 99% of the time).
Is that really not the norm? Everyone is playing in a huge room with lots of different games and stakes? Honestly, I find that hard to believe; my guess is that most areas are like mine, and that the huge destination casino in the destination city is the exception.
Also, I'm not saying the recreational reg filled game can't be a good game. All I'm saying is that there isn't much difference between them; time of day / day doesn't make that much difference if that's the only type of game going.
Gwe'llhavetoagreetodisagreeonthis,imoG
Not going to rehash a ton of the argument, GG, but you're arguing two different things. I suspect that even in your room, there is more difference than you think. The weekday games are probably tighter than you imagine, but you don't know because you are at work. All regs are not created equal. As others have mentioned, even if they are equally skilled in theory, non-worktime players are generally much more willing to accept variance, as they can afford it. Late-night (after OMCs like you and me go to bed) tends to be even better. This does
not require noobs wandering in. Even the regs are more gambly at 2am.
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Originally Posted by gobbledygeek
It would take far much more research than I'm willing to put into it, but what is the ratio between small poker rooms and big card rooms? I mean, how many 35+ table rooms are there in the US, especially outside the hotspots mentioned here? Now balance that out with hick 5 table rooms in every hick town. If the hick rooms outnumber the big rooms by a large margin (which would be my guess), then it could quickly be the case that more people play at smaller rooms.
FWIW, *every* single person in my province plays in a small card room because there is not a single big one. My guess is that statement applies to every province (with perhaps some exceptions, I'll admit ignorance to that).
Gbutit'sallabout'Merica,cuzthat'sallthatmatters,am irite?G
Come on, GG. first, as many have mentioned, it takes a lot of 5-table rooms to equal one 45 table room. Second, poker is not common here. The bolded just does not exist in most of America. In most places (other than Washington and California) poker has to be in a casino, and many casinos don't have it, either due to laws limiting what can be offered (Alabama, for example), or just not wanting to bother. As of 2014, there were 510 casinos in all of the US. Most of them are clustered together in enclaves where gambling is legal (Vegas, AC, Tunica, Blackhawk CO, etc.), or are out on an Indian Reservation that is a long drive to get to. In the meantime, as of 2012 (may have closed since then, but it was the easiest to count list that had rooms not on Bravo) the entire US had 453 poker rooms. About 1/4 of them are in Casinos in California or Nevada, and almost 1/4 are stand-alone rooms in California and where laws are looser. So take out those two states, and there are about 230 poker rooms for the rest of the US.
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Originally Posted by nicname
My room is 8 tables. Usually 1 goes in a.m. weekdays. 2-3 tables Mon - Wed evenings, 5 tables in Thursday evenings, 6-7 tables on Fri & Sat nights. I don't really play Sunday.
It's the only card room within > of 120 miles each way. Imo there is a huge difference between the weekend and weekday/evening crowd.
And this. That was also my room until recently, and when I was in Colorado Springs I had to drive up in tot he mountains to play in a similarly 8-table card room. Even in those rooms, where noobs were rare, the game is very different between workday and not.
The difference is actually less in vacation spots, imo. I tend to play during the day in Vegas, for example, which I never can when I'm working, ldo.