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Commerce Casino Posted Nine Waitlist Surges Across Nine Different Games in One Day

On May 21, the largest card room in the world saw phantom waitlists stack up from $1/$2 NLH to $25/$50 NLH — and across limit hold'em, PLO, and Big O — with demand outpacing supply at every level.

12h ago · 3 min read

Six Deep for $25/$25 PLO at the Aria — Zero Tables Open

The highest-stakes phantom waitlist on the Las Vegas Strip belongs to a PLO game that doesn't technically exist yet.

18h ago · 3 min read

Hustler Casino Is Running the Deepest Non-NLH Waitlists in Southern California

Three different non-hold'em games surged past their median waitlists on a single Monday night — and one of them had zero tables open.

3d ago · 3 min read

New Hampshire's Monday Night Poker Surge: Four Rooms, Five Spikes, One Tiny State

On May 19, four New Hampshire card rooms posted simultaneous waitlist surges — including a 12x spike in Manchester — making the state the most demand-dense poker market per capita Charlotte has ever tracked.

3d ago · 3 min read

Capitol Casino's Big O Waitlists Just Broke Every Number We Track

Three simultaneous five-card waitlist surges at one Sacramento card room — and most of the names had nowhere to sit.

3d ago · 2 min read

15 Names Deep, Zero Tables: Inside Dayton's 'Spank's Game'

A custom-named poker game at Mad River Poker Club posted the most lopsided waitlist-to-table ratio on Bravo's national board.

3d ago · 3 min read

Arizona's Sunday Night Poker Surge: Four Casinos, Five Game Types, One State on Fire

Ten separate waitlist surges across Arizona on a single Sunday night reveal a statewide demand spike that rivals anything outside California and Texas.

4d ago · 3 min read

Seven Canadian Rooms, Four Provinces, One Overnight Surge

Between midnight and 6:30 a.m. ET Sunday, Canada posted the widest simultaneous waitlist spike Charlotte has ever tracked.

4d ago · 3 min read

18 Names, Zero Tables: PLO Waitlists Are Outrunning Hold'em

Sunday night Bravo data reveals PLO demand surging past NLH in a third of Charlotte's tracked markets, with one room posting a 9x ratio to its own median.

4d ago · 3 min read

Texas Card Houses Now Out-Wait the Entire Las Vegas Strip

A Sunday-night snapshot of Bravo waitlist data reveals five Texas card rooms carrying more than double the combined waitlist depth of the Strip's five biggest poker rooms.

4d ago · 3 min read