Is there any possibility the gaming commission could amend the poker table limits based on feedback at the workshop Tuesday?

First, the operators need to push for the change, and a few players would be good also. Also, requiring masks, as an alternative to "4 play only" is the sort of trade-off most likely to carry the issue

If there is a will expressed by dome operators to entertain re-opening poker, you've got to give the "4 player" proponents some protective gain they can look to to prompt giving up 4 player max.

I think there is a non-zero chance if any operators want to re-open poker and raise the issue.
but a formal action is not likely on Tuesday itself. Give it maybe a month or the next GCB meeting ?

I would bet by July 1st or before it will be 6 max in Las Vegas or back to 9.
If not, very soon after.

Masks would be fine with me, though I’m not sure how they would work in conjunction with drinking at the table (not just alcohol, but it would be tough to play a long session with water).

6-max also sounds totally reasonable to me. I would enthusiastically plan a trip to Vegas to play 6-max or 9-max poker, but I probably wouldn’t if the limit is still 4, even if all the rooms are open.

If 4 handed means more hands per hour are they really giving up much rake?

Life of the party right here.

Totally unrelated to poker but I am watching LivePD and only 1 police department out of the 7 featured has the officers wearing masks. I mean what the hell? They are constantly making contact with people all the time and most aren't wearing masks. So to me it is complete irresponsibility and a health and safety issue obv with covid19 for the leaders of the departments to not make masks mandatory. There is some huge gathering now in Tulsa with hundreds of people fighting and there are like 10 cops trying to break it up, all without masks and the crowd isn't wearing masks. Disgusting on so many levels.

Haven't seen tonight's episode yet as I am out West. I always watch it Friday and Saturday and I see a lot of them wearing masks. Pretty crazy that job tho with this going on. They have to get up close and personal with all kinds of weird people and crack heads.

But yea, normally at least half not wearing them. Might matter which cities, different rules.

Side note, how is there 623 people viewing NVG right now? Must be a record. lol
edit: Its the Bill Perkins thread, 62 posts and nothing said so far tho.

Sports Illustrated with a dig on Vegas 4 handed rules

4 handed needs to be replaced as soon as possible to 6 handed. Hopefully that happens sooner rather than later in Vegas. Venetian should require all players wear masks. I am shocked that they aren't but Adelson is in charge so I guess I'm really not.

Maybe the move to 4 handed poker will help change the poker culture and get players used to playing short handed more. It's annoying when 2 players leave a game and then half the table is complaining that they won't bring more people to fill up the table and then the game breaks shortly after.

Moving to six-handed would be much more effective at doing this because a lot more rooms will open and a lot more players will be willing to try playing in the first place.

poker culture has nothing to do with it tho

you can drink your coffee read a newspaper while folding hands for hours at a full ring table and not lose much money

4-handed you will get run over

most degens will show up to play cause 4-handed is better than nothing but those games are not sustainable in a long run since many rec players will be losing at a furious pace

I don't think even most degens will show up to play 4 handed. If they are degens then they'll play table games. 4 handed is a total losing proposition. The difference between 4 and 6 is so big and if Vegas switched it to 6 handed I'm pretty confident the poker rooms will be packed like Florida. If you think about it, it's crazy to imagine how just 2 more players at a table changes the whole industry while we are dealing with covid19 but it truly does.

Four players per table: Is it in cards for poker?

"‘ It’s not only that people wouldn’t want to play (four-handed poker). It will be very hard for a poker room to be profitable.’ Matt Savage, executive tour director of the World Poker Tour. Savage said he didn’t think four-handed games worked for either side of the equation."

"Savage and the players agreed that six-handed games had a much better chance at viability. Poker pro Andrew Neeme of Las Vegas pointed out that six-player games are very popular online and would offer a greater sense of normalcy to most players. Every player that you add (to the table) will encourage some incremental number of players to want to play,” he said."

“There’s no point in opening if that’s the guideline,” poker pro Danielle Andersen of Henderson said. “Recs (recreational players) don’t like playing super-shorthanded.”

"Andersen said: “There’s a huge difference between four and six. If someone gets up to go to the bathroom and someone gets up to get something to eat, then you’re already down to two. That won’t work.”

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Oli...02&sk=0D585DE5

The 4 down to 3 down to 2 is huge. I know even I won't play heads up but I'm down for low NL/ limit 3 handed.

I think you might only have mid to high stakes games going in jurisdictions that enforce anything below 6 handed.

So it will be V and possibly Caesars and Flamingo on June 4th if that is opening day and if Caesars meant they will start poker immediately upon opening. Also heard Bally's will be the last to open the casino of the Caesars properties.

Deleted what was a repost.

Interesting Video, scroll down on website.

No it's good for recs because it's correct to play much looser which recs do naturally.

The real question is what is the rake and promo drop and exactly when is each dollar taken out of the pot.

It's good that they didn't replace it because new carpet is toxic for about a year because it offgasses VOCs. Hopefully they wanted to replace it with laminate. Carpet is gross. Viruses don't survive on it very long though.

Recs won't play 4 handed for a number of reasons.

The biggest reason is that they will end up losing quickly because they will end up playing many more hands per hour. If you think about it, most players are losing players. Maybe 20% to 25% are winning players.

And while you are right that recs loose play will almost always be more effective the fewer the players, the bigger problem is that they are not aggressive enough and that will factor in a lot more.

Another reason recs won't play 4 handed is that they are typically very unfamiliar with short handed play. Whereas Pros will be adept.

Similarly, in a 4 handed game there won't be any chopping. Recs who always chop will be hard pressed to deal with that. And would probably choose not to play for that reason alone.

Having played quite a bit at Foxwoods in the past 12 years (though mostly tournaments recently) my opinion is that it would be hard to maintain 6 handed games. There are some regulars who would be happy to do it. And of course the pros would be all over it. But most fish/recs would be extremely hesitant, IMO. And the older Regs (should they even come to play during the pandemic) absolutely hate short handed games. When starting up must move games I would typically offer to play HU, 3 handed, etc. Almost nobody took me up on it. We would only start 5 handed when they could see players cards in front of empty seats meaning that once we started there would soon be almost a full table. Not to mention that was why people put their cards on the table and didn't sit down (because they didn't even want to start short handed for just a few hands).

Disclaimer - I lost the election to speak on behalf of all rec players.

But if elected, I would have said "To hell with four, won't play unless there's more".

This is the sentiment of the numerous legions of rec players I know and have contact with.

All five of them said the same thing.

I’d think the biggest reason recs don’t want to play 4-handed is just that it is a much less relaxing and less social games. It is much more personally confrontation and you need to make betting decisions much more often (and thus keep your concentration on the game rather than whatever you want to be distracted by).

IDK, do people really go play just to watch something on their phone? I always thought it was just a consequence of the bordem rather than just going to watch something.

I think it would be more social as its more intimate, but you are right it would for sure be less relaxing and more confrontational overall, and I can see why some people definitely would not want that, but your time would be more efficient and you would actually be playing poker instead of looking at a phone, but possibly people have gotten used to that aspect and actually want it. I am also very bias for short handed games lol