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Originally Posted by Seattle Rounders
The minutes from the gaming commision meeting from (i think) May actually cites the small number of "large" games at the tribal casinos to show that there is no demand for increasing or eliminating the $500 max bet. "Where is the demand?" is asked in the report.
Actually, it's a pretty good question for them to ask.
Basically, the RGA's goal is to try and set up a whole bunch of sh*tty little 1/2 "baby NL" games to pull business from the tribal casinos (there's *absolutely zero* demand for limit games > 20/40, so it's *only* about NL, and only a 1/2 structure can even marginally work under a 50bb cap).
But consider now: if this measure is approved (which it will be), what will tribal casinos do in response? If the new 1/2 games get any action (which they will, at the expense of small limit-game action), the tribal casinos will respond by adding a ton of new 1/2 games to their mix (with a $500 betting limit) to pull the 1/2 players back, which basically will kill a lot of their current 2/5-level action.
Good plan, huh? The net result is that the games pretty much get worse everywhere.
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The gaming commision in WA is completely clueless.
About poker, yeah, pretty much. Unfortunately, that makes them easily manipulated by the RGA and other lobbying groups, none of which seem to have much interest in the long-term health of the game.
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My best guess is that the small number of large games is sampled from mon-weds afternoons in the summer, instead of thurs-sat evenings in the fall/winter when 10/20NL would easily be sustainable at a couple of the tribal casinos.
10/20 NL ($500 cap) is already allowed at the tribal casinos, and this proposal won't affect them at all. Meanwhile, none of the non-tribals are going to offer 10/20 NL under a $100 betting cap, which is the only change under discussion here.
Long story short: the only things this proposal will do is change the current 1/2~40 games into 1/2~100 games -- killing off a lot of the remaining limit action in the process -- and force the tribals to move from 2/5 as their entry-level game down to 1/2.
It will, of course, be easily approved, because nobody really seems to get how the back-and-forth of this thing will play out.
q/q