4 handed o8 sounds fun

I don't know anything about other casinos as this is the only one that's reasonably close enough to my house for me to care about.

I can't see them making a squawk about having a license from NY, NJ, CT, or LA. Lots of people live in Florida with out of state IDs. I can't really see them denying entry if you have an out of state license as long as you say you've been in Florida for the past two weeks.

Why don't you get your license renewed? There really is no excuse for driving around with an expired license.

4 handed stud or stud 8 would be far better.

1. i dont drive. i couldnt get the hang of it and gave up learning how 30 yrs ago due to my aspergers. 2. i cant prove my US citizenship, been here since i was age 1 from my mother who is a citizen but was born in canada. very costly to prove and complicated. 3. seminole hardrock was refusing to rent hotel rooms to anyone of 4 particular states who had ID from those states.

My wife is disabled and can't drive but NV has a State ID card. Don't need to prove citizenship -- just residence. I would expect FL to have a similar program

Just in time for an 8pm curfew for a week.

I google searched and looked at the first few local results and didn't see it confirmed anywhere.

Am I reading correctly that Jamul has 50% rake in the OP? Wtf lol must mean 50% of its normal rake?

some of their tables are still 9 max. and the people of california are dying to get out of the lockdowns and go visit the casino.

im surprised theres not huge wait lists for seats. especially with the size of the area in population. instead of dropping the rake in half they could increase it and still get plenty of business.

Poker alway played second fiddle to the high margin games. The rooms were always the carrot to stand out from the rest and also hope that the players would drop a few bills on slots or craps when taking a break. Now that their capacity for the profit square footage has been slashed, casinos have little, if any, incentive to bring out the carrots when the stick will be at capacity anyway.

+1

sounds awful lol.

The tables at Jamul are all 9 handed and the rake is normal

Well, if you actually paid taxes like me you could get $967 a week like I do from unemployment through at least July. I don't have to drive 2+ hours to play live. No reason to now. Plus, it's stupid to risk getting corona unnecessarily.

I agree but they already went to 5 handed.

Why does Seminole get to have 6-max games, but Las Vegas only 5-max?

Because they're not adjudicated by even the remotely same governing body.

I thought some spots in FL were up to 8-handed already? (Orange City)

Yes, each state will have it's own guidelines for 'gatherings' ... but what will enforcement of those guidelines look like as well? Obv the Governor of Nevada is much more conservative than the Mayor of Vegas ...

In Michigan none of the casinos are opening with poker 'until further notice' and the charity rooms will have to jump some hoops to get going as well ... once the Governor clears them to try and reopen. So it's Apps and home games for the time being. GL

Daytona and Orange City both already switched to 9-handed this past Monday I believe.

As of today 19 states are seeing increases in covid cases, 7 states are holding steady, and 24 states are trending downward.

Because of more testing ? Or more exposure ?

In the last 4 days in the US overall we have seen less testing and a slight increase in positive tests. This combo indicates a definite rise in Covid cases

Individually I am only tracking about 12 states using 7 day rolling avgs. The past 4 days I see:

AZ: decrease in testing, significant increase in positive test rate %
CA: testing has been fairly constant, slight increase in positive test rates
FL: decrease in testing, increase in positive test rates
GA: testing constant except yesterday which was lower, slight increase in positive test rate except past two days was significantly higher.
MI: slight decrease in testing, slight increase in positive cases (up til now MI has been crushing it.)
NV: Slight uptick in testing, positive case rate % rising

AZ, CA, FL, NV: also have all time highs in cases (rolling 7 day avgs). But it should be noted that these states have much lower deaths per capita than the states below that are doing so well in containing Covid now.

CT, MA, NJ, NY, PA, RI: all time lows in cases and positive test rates. Increase in tests or the same (note PA has significant lows in positive test rate %)

We need to be honest about the situation. States that have put forth a reasonable response (I live in one, Illinois) are doing pretty well. States that lean a different way (I'm trying not to offend anyone) aren't. Frankly, at this point in time (I'm 65) I believe that if one is foolish enough to risk their health and the health of their families for game of poker. . .well, so be it. I simply refuse to be responsible for anyone who is that stupid. The Darwin Awards should have a field day the next year or so.

In the end I think after a vaccine is found there will be less rooms around. The main reason is the length of time that is going to take. It is likely that before then there may well be another industry wide shutdown.

How soft/not are all these first games back overall (generalizing buy ins and regions etc)? Are we thinking its a bunch of solids who cant wait to get back to work? Or recs feening to gamble/go to the casino/etc, or both?