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I have been traveling through Florida and have stopped into a number of room across the state. This room falls into the trap of only focusing in on the hard core regulars. The promotions they run are great to get people into the door, but there is alot of collusion to winning them. Players that know each other well tipping off their hands, and signaling each other. Dealers overlook this and let it go. High hand rules are a joke, if you have the current qualified high hand and your in a hand with a few minutes to go on the clock and happen to have a hand that beats your current hand. You can stall, run out the clock, and table the hand for the next round. Again that is just catering to the local player. But let's get into the bigger mistakes this and other small market rooms make, and that is the no max/match the stack on low limit 1/2, 1/3, 2/3 NL games. There are a few reason why this is a mistake, and the main one being that a casual player traveling on vacation that wants to play and is looking to play 200-300 dollars to waste a couple of hours is going to walk away from that game when people are sitting with 2k,3k or more, and making it 100 pre-flop opening bet UTG. S 1/2 game is designed to get the casual player to play and develop there skills, and have a live experience for a decent price. The next point is that if you cap you lowest limit game ( usually a 1/2 ) at 200, 300. 400, do not offer your very next level of play a no cap/match the stack. Your effectively killing off any possibilities of getting a 2/5, 3/5, 5/5 or 5/10. Management fall into this trap promoting the list for tgis type of game saying " well it plays alot bigger then a 1/3 ".....no, no it doesn't. This is a local player cop-out because their skill set is not good enough to jump to the next level of play, but they want to " play big shot " by putting their whole bankroll on the table and showing off a pile of chips they are never going to use. So cap your low limit games, this will encourage the causal play to actually sit and play, and it will also encourage the people who want to play table captain to move up to the next level to do so. I would recommend this. 1/2, 1/3 200-400 buy-in max. 2/3, 2/5, 3/5 600-1000 buy-in max. 5/5, 5/10 make ygis your no cap/match the stack. And remember this only applies to small markets. Larger markets can tweak, and try different things because your going to have a larger player base, but when your average player base is 10 players, with 10-20 casual player walk-ins on a weekend you can't afford to turn away players because of catering only to the core base player of the room.
Ebro Poker Room
- Phone:
- (850) 234-3943 ext. 180
- Poker Tables:
- 25 Tables
- Hours:
- Open Now (10:00am - 4:00am)
- Minimum Age:
- 18
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