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Originally Posted by AtomicLiquors
Looking at the evening numbers (8:45 PM Thursday) they are showing THR running 17 games and Derby Lane at 9 ( NL breakdown; 2/5 - 3 at THR and zero at Derby. 1/2 and 1/3 - 8 at THR and 4 at Derby with Derby also running 4 1/1 games). I wonder if that means that only the the old daytime nits have moved to Derby with the evening and night games not changing at all.
That's a really good observation, I was curious about the same thing. Derby seems to have picked up a significant amount of daytime business after the parking fees started this week, but THR still seems to be doing ok at night. I still think it's going to be tough to discern any trends for a few months, THR has historically been slow until the snowbirds come back in November.
With that said, even if its the old man coffee types that are going to play at other rooms due to the parking fees, that's still going to hurt THR poker as they'll lose a chunk of business that helps pay the overhead of the poker room. Plus fewer games running during the day might eventually seep into the evening and night games as players look on Bravo and Poker Desk and start to go where there's more action (could be Daytona for players in an around Orlando, many of which make the trip to THR).