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Originally Posted by cashgamepoker500
also, the games will be just as soft in philly as in AC.
I hope this turns out to be true, but I'm not so sure. There is a pretty big poker community in the Philly area. I used to play in a monthly MTT that was run at a firehouse, and the players were pretty good. They would always start a 20/40 cash game for the players who busted out, and you'd see the same players with big stacks every month. Also, when the big tournaments would come to AC, their names would appear on the cash lists a lot.
It seems like there will be a fair number of new casinos in the Philly area (including parx, Harrahs Chester, and Foxwoods once it gets built). I'm sort of worried that the number of choices will disperse the casual players, leaving the tables to be mostly populated by regulars who know what they're doing.
Anyway, I guess there's not much sense to worrying about what the games will be like once they get here. We'll see soon enough whether the games are soft or not, and in the end, there probably won't be too much of a difference in the skill of a 1/2 NL game whether the table is in Philly, AC, Las Vegas, or Biloxi.