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

New Hampshire has roughly 1.4 million people and zero tribal casinos, but on the night of May 19 four different card rooms across the state posted waitlist-to-median ratios between 2.3x and 12x — the highest per-capita surge density in our data.

That's five distinct waitlist spikes across four rooms in a state you could drive end-to-end in two hours. No series in town. No overlay promo. Just a regular night in the Granite State.

The Numbers

Here's every surge Charlotte flagged in New Hampshire between 5:45 p.m. and 1:45 a.m. PT on May 19–20:

| Room | City | Game | Waiting | Tables | Median WL | Ratio | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Revo Casino & Social House | Manchester | $1/3 NLH | 6 | 0 | 0.5 | 12.0x | | Gate City Casino | Nashua | $1/2 NLH | 18 | 7 | 5 | 3.6x | | Gate City Casino | Nashua | $1/3 NLH | 9 | 0 | 2 | 4.5x | | The Brook | Seabrook | $1/$2 NL Hold'em | 9 | 1 | 2 | 4.5x | | Lilac Club Casino | Rochester | $2/5 NLH | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3.0x | | Lilac Club Casino | Rochester | $1/3 NLH | 7 | 0 | 3 | 2.3x |

Revo Casino in Manchester posted a 12x waitlist-to-median ratio with six names waiting and zero tables open.

What Stands Out

Revo's 12x ratio is the headline. Six names on a list where the median is 0.5 — meaning most nights, the $1/3 game barely has anyone waiting at all. On May 19, six players showed up to a room running zero tables of the game they wanted. That's not a waitlist. That's a room that needs to open a table and doesn't have one.

Gate City carried the heaviest raw volume. Eighteen names on the $1/2 NLH list at 8:45 p.m. PT, with seven tables already running. That's not a supply failure — it's genuine overflow. The room was dealing plenty of poker and still couldn't keep up. Gate City also spiked separately at its $1/3 game: nine waiting, zero tables, a 4.5x ratio.

Lilac Club in Rochester posted two surges of its own — seven names on $1/3 NLH and six on $2/5 NLH, both with zero tables running. Rochester sits in the state's eastern corner, nearly an hour from Manchester. This isn't spillover from a single population center. The demand is distributed.

The Brook in Seabrook rounded out the cluster at 4.5x — nine names, one table, a median of two. Seabrook is on the Massachusetts border, which raises the obvious question: how many of those nine names drove north from the Merrimack Valley?

Why This Matters

New Hampshire's card-room model is unusual. The state has no commercial casinos and no tribal gaming. Poker rooms operate under a charitable-gaming framework, which caps the number of tables and limits the games they can spread. That regulatory ceiling is precisely what makes a night like May 19 so visible: when demand surges, there's nowhere for it to go.

Consider the contrast. Nevada has 1,500+ poker tables spread across dozens of properties. A hot night at Bellagio doesn't spike the Bravo board at South Point. In New Hampshire, four rooms with a combined handful of tables absorb the entire state's demand. When all four spike at once, it shows up as a synchronized pattern that would be invisible in a larger market.

Five surges. Four rooms. Four cities. One state with a population smaller than Phoenix.

New Hampshire isn't supposed to be a poker story. The data says otherwise.

Methodology

Surge ratios are calculated as current waitlist names divided by trailing median waitlist for the same game at the same room, as reported by Bravo. All signals were observed between 5:45 p.m. PT on May 19 and 1:45 a.m. PT on May 20, 2026. Population figure (1.4 million) is from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 estimate. "Per-capita surge density" is defined as the number of simultaneous surge signals (ratio ≥ 2x) per million state residents; New Hampshire's five surges across 1.4M residents (3.57 surges per million) is the highest single-night figure Charlotte has recorded for any U.S. state.