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05-20-2020 , 07:34 PM

News777

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Not good news for PARX poker room which competes with The Borgata for the higher limit action in the area. I don't know The Borgata's plan but if the 4 seat limitation holds it would be rather dim for business.

https://www.inquirer.com/business/co...-20200520.html

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05-20-2020 , 08:06 PM

HomeStar

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Would be shocked if there is 4 handed poker anywhere. It's not worth it for the casino

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05-20-2020 , 08:22 PM

News777

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Also Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun announced they will reopen June 1st without poker.

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05-20-2020 , 09:00 PM

Gzesh

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Originally Posted by News777

Market opportunity for electronic poker table providers as the offered reasoning was "players handle cards and chips".

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05-20-2020 , 09:11 PM

EastCoastBalla

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I read that on twitter last week that a regular that plays there claimed that his inside sources told him Parx won't have poker running again until 2021 at the earliest. If true that definitely sucks.

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05-20-2020 , 11:03 PM

Rmbxr9

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Originally Posted by HomeStar

Would be shocked if there is 4 handed poker anywhere. It's not worth it for the casino

Agree, but the small amount of rooms that have opened in Houston/FLA/CA seem to all be doing 6-Max. It's a start...
6 Max is doable, even with the 75 year old OMC

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05-21-2020 , 07:16 AM

Jeffage

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The CDC just came out and said the risk of surface transmission is low. They use that as justification for no poker and said it could change based on CDC guidance. Well here it is.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-n...nated-surfaces

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05-21-2020 , 09:31 AM

Smudger2408

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Casino's are going to be a ghost town until you can go without a maks.

Even if poker is open, there will be two tables going. Be like going at 3:45 AM on a Tuesday.

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05-21-2020 , 01:23 PM

PTLou

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Originally Posted by Gzesh

Market opportunity for electronic poker table providers as the offered reasoning was "players handle cards and chips".

Yes there is.

If not for stuff like this, we could install some tables pretty quickly and keep some form of live poker going.

https://gamingcontrolboard.pa.gov/files/licensure/applications/Multi_Jurisdictional_Personal_History_Form.pdf

I started filling this out but got bored and decided to just re-watch all seasons of The Office instead

figured it would take less time.

Will you email the Director and tell him we are good guys, not associated with the Mafia, and in these uncertain times and since we are all in this together, he/she should let us bypass all this licensing mumbo jumbo.

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05-23-2020 , 03:03 AM

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ejames209

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Originally Posted by Rmbxr9

Agree, but the small amount of rooms that have opened in Houston/FLA/CA seem to all be doing 6-Max. It's a start...
6 Max is doable, even with the 75 year old OMC

I can already hear the OMC grumbling about how I'm always raising his big blind

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05-23-2020 , 04:04 AM

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Rmbxr9

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Originally Posted by Smudger2408

Casino's are going to be a ghost town until you can go without a maks.

Even if poker is open, there will be two tables going. Be like going at 3:45 AM on a Tuesday.

Florida disagrees, they had like 21 and 24 tables tonight at Seminole and Oxford

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05-23-2020 , 04:20 AM

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VbV1993

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Anybody have news about casinos on the West Coast? Commerce, The Bike etc, those that are mostly centered around poker rather than your traditional table games.

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05-23-2020 , 05:30 AM

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Tuma

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Again, really simple. Detachable poker screens where a ring full of people can play in person at a safe distance.

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05-23-2020 , 05:43 AM

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Tuma

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Is a room full of computers and chairs too much to ask? They could run 180-mans all day long if they cared to.

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05-23-2020 , 11:10 AM

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LimpDitka

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Again, really simple. Detachable poker screens where a ring full of people can play in person at a safe distance.

Have you ever played the digital tables, they have them on cruise ships. Definitely not the same. I've been on cruises that have live dealers with chips and cards and ones that use the digital screens. People hardly ever played on the cruises with digital screens , we'd be lucky to get a 5 handed game going at 10 pm. The cruises with live dealers would have 9 handed games running non stop. Personally i hate the digital tables and so do most amateurs

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05-23-2020 , 11:37 AM

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PTLou

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Originally Posted by LimpDitka

People hardly ever played on the cruises with digital screens

again, dont want to debate elec or live, that is for another thread but I will always correct mis-leading info or statements that are just plain wrong.

What you say, might be true for your ultra small sample size but not even close to true based on actual historical data for all cruises.

Games running on each specific cruise are HIGHLY dependent on intenerary and specific guests for those 3-10 days. true for live or digital.

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05-23-2020 , 09:53 PM

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6 Deuce Suited

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Originally Posted by LimpDitka

This.

Digital tables on cruise ships blow...

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05-25-2020 , 03:32 PM

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TheRealJosh05

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good, online has been good since the shut down.

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