If we don't want any drop at all for a bad beat jackpot, Do we have to start our boycott on a different day so we aren't confused with yours? Who wants to pay all that money into something some out of town tourist can walk in, play one hand, win, and walk away with thousands of dollars paid for by the regs?

Lame. It’ll never happen, nobody cares except OP and his three home game friends, and even if someone managed to arrange this, the casinos would laugh and quickly move out the tables to bring in more slots.

If you don’t like the rake or whatever else about your local card rooms, stop going.

lmao another clown thinking he can start a strike of poker players, some of the most self centered short sighted people in the world.

i still remember the classic "strike" on pokerstars maybe 5 years ago where the "strikers" were then shocked starts was booting them for their mass sit out.

true which is why live games are awesome on sundays.

Are you sure the date wasn't supposed to be April 1st?

been striking for over a year, where u boys been

They will be even softer if a lot of regs are striking.

PPA.... serious organization? Interesting

Nothing about this thread is serious.

Except the part about striking players adding free guac at Chipotle's to their list of demands. That is deadly serious.

meanwhile I don't like Guac so chipotle taunts me by putting free Guac coupons in my chipotle account instead of something I want.
So if the person ahead of me or behind me is getting Guac i scan the coupon for them to get chipotle back.

$5+2 every single hand 24/7/365 is absolute trash. When hands are not running, you cant win back the extra $6 an hour you are paying for promotions. The rake is essentially $8+0 fourteen hours a day. $8 from a $50 pot is 16% of the pot. You have a 19%+ mathematical disadvantage to makeup to win ZERO in all pots less than $50 that see a flop. But of course you dont care and just make jokes.

Going from $4+1 to $5+2 was an atrocious change. A 2000 hour a year live 1/3 or 2/5 NLH pro would save $10,000 a year just from not paying a $1 at $10 for promos and the dollar for promos being taken at $30 and $50, which these effin cardroom managers cant seem to get right. How fin hard is it to take a $1 for the bbj at $50 instead of $20 at a 2/5 table?!

I think the demand for poker would be so much higher if the rake was $4+1 that cardrooms would actually make more money!!!!

$5+2 is a mistake!!! EVERYONE TAKE A MONTH OFF FROM POKER BEGINNING AUGUST 1ST!!!

This is the dumbest thread I’ve ever seen. Of course players want lower rake, who wouldn’t. From a casino perspective, they are never going to lower the rake. Within a year or two will probably be higher so deal with it. The options are play somewhere else, deal with current rake or don’t play at all.

The casino would choose to close the poker room and add slots or a restaurant instead of ever lowering the rake again. In NV for example minimum wage goes up 75c a year next few years on July 1 so more expenses for them.

This add slots nonsense is a very unsophisticated response.

The $1 taken at $50 is dumb. An extra table or running because the rake is $4+1 would makeup for that.

Poker players, 2+2 posters and cardroom managers arent too bright.

$4+1 is better for alllll parties involved!!!!!

Let me help you with the maths. The tourist who plays one hand and leaves doesn't change your equity in the jackpot. You could have written..

"Who wants to pay all that money into something some out of town tourist can walk in, play one hand, lose, and not walk away with thousands of dollars paid for by the regs?"

It doesn't matter who (regs or tourists) is paying for the jackpot. The equity per hand is the same for everyone each hand, regardless of whether that person is a reg or tourist.

Don't hate on the tourists.

You are not very bright. The Linq, Harrahs, Excalibur, Stratosphere, Luxor, TI, Mirage have all done this in the last 5 years because they cannot make enough money with current rake to make it worth staying open.

You should stick with a non raked game somewhere and let the rest of us enjoy our casino poker with their current rake structure as is. I think that’s fair if you don’t want to play at the casinos.

If this strike was observed, the tables would be replaced by slots within days.

In all seriousness OP you need to understand that a boycott only has power if taking away business would be bad for the people you're boycotting from. Poker is a tiny fraction of a casino's revenue. Cardrooms? Maybe quite a bit more. Table games and slot are much more profitable though. They wouldn't lose much sleep over replacing poker rooms with those instead.

The list of demands needs to include getting rid of rake-sucking 8-handed poker and go back to 9 or 10 handed.

Not just poker, but poker regs. Do you think the casinos really need them or care?

I hope all the pros decide to do this. If so, I’ll definitely be at the casino on august 1st playing against all the fish that are there that day without pros around to gobble them up.

I don't think casinos are really going to get that message after being dark for months.

Lose money on every deal but make it up in volume.

pretty sure thats not possible. All humans like guac. its a DNA thing. are you a bot?

not sure. maybe my body adopted to me not liking it bc they charge for it.