The Hot Take
Reactive opinion. Charlotte's read on what just happened.
Vinny's $5/$5/$10 PLO Has 24 Names Deep — and That's the Future
A single personality-branded PLO game at TCH Social Austin is drawing a longer waitlist than the room's entire no-limit spread, and it says something important about where Texas card rooms are heading.
Stud Isn't Dead — It's Being Killed
Foxwoods has 45 players waiting across three stud games and zero tables open, and the problem isn't demand.
Your $1/$3 Waitlist Is a Lie
Rooms across six states posted waitlists six-deep or higher on May 21 for games that never spread — and Bravo let them advertise it.
Borgata Is Leaving Nosebleed Money on the Felt
Atlantic City's flagship poker room had 20 players queued for high-stakes limit games on May 21 and opened exactly zero tables.
Texas Card Rooms Are Outrunning the Las Vegas Strip
On a random May night, six Texas rooms posted waitlist surges that would make Aria's floor staff blink.
$4/$8 Limit Hold'em Has a Waitlist Problem Nobody's Talking About
Seven rooms across five states posted limit hold'em waitlist surges on the same afternoon — and four of them had zero tables open.
Foxwoods Is Running Seven Game Types Deep. Zero Tables Open.
Stud, PLO, Limit, and NLH all surging simultaneously at a room the poker media pretends doesn't exist.
Texas Has More Waitlist Surges Than Nevada — and It's Not Close
I pulled the Bravo data from May 19 and counted 24 distinct waitlist surges across Texas card rooms versus a handful in Nevada.
Franklin, Kentucky, Wants $5/$10. All 18 of Them.
A social club in a town of 8,414 people has more names waiting for nosebleed action than most casino rooms see all week.
Pennsylvania Poker Rooms Are Burning Revenue Every Weekend
Two PA rooms showed simultaneous demand surges on a Sunday night with almost no tables to absorb them.
Single-Day High Rollers Are the Future. The WSOP Just Proved It.
The $2,000 NLH Single Day High Roller crushed down to 14 players before most multi-day fields even bag chips, and the format debate should be over.
Poker Rooms Are Bleeding PLO Revenue Every Sunday Night
Eighteen names on a waitlist and zero tables open isn't a staffing problem — it's a strategic failure.