Canterbury Park's $3/$6 Limit List Hits 7 Deep on a Quiet Night

Seven players queued for two tables of $3/$6 limit hold'em with a kill at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota, on the night of May 20 — a 7:1 waitlist-to-table ratio that no other upper-Midwest room matched.

The median waitlist for that game at Canterbury sits at 1. Last night it was seven times that.

The median waitlist for that game at Canterbury sits at 1 — last night it was seven times that.

What the Numbers Show

Canterbury Park Card Casino logged 7 names waiting against just 2 running tables for its $3/$6 limit hold'em kill game as of 11:30 p.m. ET on May 20. That 7:1 ratio represents a sharp departure from the room's typical demand, where a single name on the list is the norm.

Limit hold'em with a kill is already a niche spread. Most rooms in the corridor from Chicago to the Rockies don't bother posting it at all, which makes Canterbury's sustained interest worth noting. Two tables were active — not one, not zero — and the list still stretched to seven.

Why Canterbury

Canterbury Park sits about 25 miles southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Shakopee. It's a combined horse-racing and card-room property, and the poker room has long been the default gathering spot for Minnesota's limit and low-stakes community.

A 7:1 ratio at a suburban Minneapolis card room on a midweek evening says something about the floor demand that raw table counts miss. Two tables running doesn't look impressive on a national leaderboard. Seven people waiting to sit in those two tables tells a different story — one about a local player pool that outstrips available seats by a wide margin.

The Broader Floor Picture

Limit hold'em waitlists this deep are uncommon outside of commerce-corridor California rooms and a few Florida properties. Canterbury posting that number in a state with a handful of licensed card rooms suggests concentrated demand rather than casual overflow.

The kill structure matters, too. A $3/$6 game with a kill bumps to $6/$12 when a player wins two pots in a row, adding variance that keeps action players seated longer — which in turn keeps the list from clearing quickly.

Two tables. Seven names. One game that most rooms don't spread. Canterbury Park's limit community showed up on May 20.