The high stakes games weren't good, really ?

Did you think everyone was just going to max buy-in? I played all day at Derby Lane in St. Pete and bought in for the max at 1/3. Three others did as well, and then the rest of the table bought in for 100. I think most people have no idea how to deal with the change, so if they can min buy, they will. This also allows the one advantage they always had, calling or shoving with a marginal hand/draw and catching without taking too much of a hit.

A funny thing I did see was next to me was a juicy 2/5 game with alot of money, and lots of aggression. This guy came over bought in for 200 and waited to post. The entire time the table was berating him to come in. One of the best comments I heard was, "if 5 dollars means that much to you, then you are sitting at the wrong table." Some funny stuff.

I think given a few weeks for people to feel the games out where bigger games will be played, the HR's, Isle, Daytona, Derby, Tampa Silks, Jacksonville, you will see bigger and better games. Right now, its a feeling out process (and the summer, so the snow birds and tourists are not in full bloom yet :-))

People are just getting their feet wet, right now they are still buying in short but once they see that the guys that are deep and when they have a big hand they are only going to win what they have in front of them. So every time they go all in and win they could have won more, they do not realize that they might not have gotten called if they had more.

I also do think that two factors are limiting the consistent high stakes action.

First of course being the WSOP,

Second being the fact that its summer in FL, and most sane people avoid summer in FL as much as possible

And all the people who sell drugs, buy real estate and drive Lamborginis have gone broke.

In todays paper it tells how the Florida housing market didn't drop off like the rest of the country after the tax credit ended. Florida went down just 2.6% as the rest of the nation went down over 15%. Also Florida has cash buyers for homes, so I really do not think they are broke.
It is summer here, so all the seasonal people are gone plus that effects all the service industry workers as always in Florida they have less disposable income in the summer.

No, they were but maybe my choice of words was poor. I guess I expected more money to be hanging around. As I mentioned before, when the limits were raised for a few days a couple of years ago people were buying in for $50K+ and there were some massive games going. So far I haven't seen a game bigger than $10/25NL, $10/20PLO or stack larger than $10K (with one $12K exception.....but that was before the law even changed over..lol). I'm curious to see what kind of action the weekend will bring.

Just got to The Rock. Here's what they have going as of 7pm Friday:

9 $2-5NL
4 $5-10NL
1 $10-20NL
1 $10-25NL
1 $10-25PLO
$25-50NL interest list 5 names long
$50-100NL interest list 3 names long

any 1/2 plo being played ?

Yup there's a full game going upstairs right between my $5/10NL and a $10/25NL.

i ment $1/$2 sir

and do you coach ?

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not so I'm just gonna lol and say no. But yeah, I was talking about $1/2PLO too, that's why I think it's kinda funny being right next to a big $10/25 game. It's still going on btw.

Why is there one game of 10/20nl and one game of 10/25nl? whats the difference? i dont get it.

What r the Buy ins to those game???????

"What r the Buy ins to those game??????? "

check this spreadsheet.

http://*******/b33lue

I was chillin in there waiting for u 2p2 badasses to roll up and answer my 25/50 hunl interest list.

You can also get your answer from the FAQ on the 1st page of this thread.

The $10-25PLO was mostly shorthanded and broke before 11pm. The $10-25NL game broke at midnight. Dunno bout PLO, but i played the 10-25NL til it broke. The game was never great. I've played every night so far and am extremely disappointed.
There have been plenty 5-10NL games, but most players are min buying for $500 and playing tight.
When our game broke at midnight I called every poker room within an hour driving distance. None had a game higher than 5-10NL.
Nowhere close to living up to the hype.

I was there for a few hours last night and agree that the games aren't what we all expected. I played some 1/3, that was awful fishy, but people were min buying in for $100 so we never had anyone with more than $200 or so at my table, pretty weak IMO as I bought in for the max $300 but was basically playing an effective $100 stack most of the time.

Looks like I might be right about a year from now, the games will be dried up, everyone says the regs are all in the big game, so it wont take lone before a few regs lose their roll playing in bigger games to other regs, so a year from 5-10 will be the biggest game going.

I'd say in the big picture you're probably right, but I do think there will always be some juicy mid/big games to be had with the influx of tourists etc. coming into south florida on a weekly basis, but I think it's going to be hit or miss with some weekend nights having some good games etc., but not something you will be able to consistently grind out on a daily basis.

It will take longer than 2 days to become a major destination for poker. It will start after WSOP and will continue to increase tourist action every month.
and by the time its snowbird season. It will be Jamming for sure.

Here are the high stakes games going as of 9pm Saturday:

5 $5-10NL
3 $10-20NL
1 $10/25 PLO
$10/25NL interest list 6 names long

There's no other PLO going, not even $1/2 and they had a full list for a $25/50NL game but only 2 people showed up when they tried to start the table.

What is the avg stack usually in the 5-10 games @ HR? Are most people buying in for the min like they are at 2-5?

Obviously it varies from table to table but I've calculated the average stack size for a couple of the $5-10's I've been at and they're usually about $1500-2000. You usually have 2 guys in each game short-buying but more people than I expected have been buying in for the $2K max. Honestly, though...the worst players have been the short buyers so a table full of them could end up being more profitable than being in a game with a bunch of $2k grinders.