Bally's Shreveport Posts the Highest Waitlist Ratio in America

The deepest waitlist-to-table ratio in America right now isn't in Las Vegas, Houston, or Miami.

It's at Bally's Shreveport.

At 10:45 p.m. ET on May 22, Bravo showed eight players waiting behind just two tables of $1/$3 no-limit hold'em in Shreveport, Louisiana. That's a 16:1 ratio against the room's own median waitlist of 0.5 names.

Eight names deep on two tables of $1/$3 in Shreveport, Louisiana, for a 16:1 ratio that no Strip room, Texas card house, or Florida poker room matched on May 22.

What 16:1 Actually Means

Bally's Shreveport typically runs a median waitlist of 0.5 players on its $1/$3 game. Half a name. Most sessions, you sit down almost immediately.

On May 22, eight players were stacked up behind those same two tables. That 16:1 ratio measures how far the current waitlist has stretched beyond the room's normal baseline. It is not simply "eight divided by two." It is eight divided by the room's median of 0.5, capturing how unusual the demand spike is relative to what Bally's Shreveport typically sees.

No other room in the entire Bravo snapshot posted a higher single-game ratio.

Why Shreveport?

Bally's Shreveport is not a room that shows up on national poker radar. It sits on the Red River in northwest Louisiana, closer to Dallas than to New Orleans. The $1/$3 game is its bread-and-butter spread.

Two tables is a small footprint. It doesn't take much absolute demand to overwhelm a two-table game. But that's exactly what makes the ratio useful as a signal: it measures pressure relative to capacity, not raw volume. A 200-name list at the Bellagio would be chaos. Eight names at Bally's Shreveport represents the same kind of structural mismatch on a smaller scale.

The median of 0.5 tells you this room rarely has anyone waiting at all. When eight names appear, something changed.

Putting It in Context

Strip rooms with dozens of tables can absorb demand spikes by opening new games. A two-table room in Shreveport can't. The result is a ratio that dwarfs anything posted by larger operations on the same night.

Whether this is a one-off surge or the start of a pattern, the data doesn't say yet. What it does say: on May 22, the most supply-constrained poker game in America was a $1/$3 table in Louisiana, not a $5/$10 seat on the Strip.