Casino de Montréal's $1/$2 Waitlist Hits 31 Names Deep

One Table, 31 Names

Thirty-one people want to play $1/$2 at Casino de Montréal, and there's exactly one table running.

That's a 31-to-1 ratio of waiting players to open seats. The room's own median waitlist for this game sits at 12. As of the evening of May 19, demand is running 2.6× that median — and the floor hasn't opened a second table.

That's a 31-to-1 ratio of waiting players to open seats.

How Lopsided Is This?

For context, most major U.S. poker rooms consider a waitlist "deep" when it crosses 15 names. A $5/$10 game at Bellagio rarely carries more than a dozen names on its list. Casino de Montréal is stacking 31 names for the lowest stake on the board — $1/$2.

The gap between supply and demand here isn't a minor imbalance. It's a bottleneck. One table means nine or ten seats. Thirty-one names means roughly three full tables' worth of players are standing around, refreshing Bravo on their phones, waiting for a seat that won't open unless someone racks up.

What's on the Board

Casino de Montréal's Bravo listing shows $1/$2 as the only game with both a running table and a waitlist of this depth. The room isn't pushing higher-stakes alternatives to absorb overflow — this is where the action is, and the action is backed up.

Montréal is one of the largest poker rooms in eastern Canada, and the $1/$2 game functions as its entry-level cash offering. When 31 recreational players line up for the same nine seats, it suggests something simple: there aren't enough tables for the number of people who showed up to play.

The Broader Picture

Canadian rooms don't always register on the U.S.-centric radar of Bravo watchers. But a 31-name waitlist at $1/$2 would be notable at any room on the continent. It's the kind of number that makes a floor manager sweat and makes a visiting player reconsider whether to wait or drive to a different property.

The question isn't whether demand exists at Casino de Montréal. It's why supply hasn't caught up.