Six Deep for $5/$5 PLO in a Town of 1,700

The highest-stakes PLO waitlist in the Florida panhandle on May 21 wasn't at Seminole Hard Rock — it was at Creek Entertainment Gretna, a card room in a town of 1,700.

Six players were stacked on the wait for a single $5/$5 PLO table. That's a 6:1 waitlist-to-table ratio — six times the median waitlist the room typically carries.

Six players were stacked on the wait for a single $5/$5 PLO table — in a town with fewer residents than most poker tournament fields.

What the Numbers Say

Gretna, Florida sits in Gadsden County, about 25 miles west of Tallahassee. The town's population hovers around 1,700. Creek Entertainment runs one table of $5/$5 PLO, and on the evening of May 21 it had six names on the list — a ratio that would be noteworthy at a room ten times its size.

The room's median waitlist for that game sits at one. Six is an outlier by any measure.

For context: $5/$5 PLO is not a small game. Effective stacks at that level routinely clear $1,000. Running even a single table of it in a panhandle town with one stoplight and no interstate exit is unusual. Drawing a six-deep wait is something else entirely.

Why It Matters

Small-town card rooms across the South have been quietly posting numbers that don't match their zip codes. Creek Entertainment Gretna is the latest example — a room where the PLO demand on a single evening exceeded the supply by a factor of six.

The game itself tells a story about where PLO action is migrating. Florida's card room landscape is dense — more than 30 licensed rooms across the state — and the biggest stakes tend to concentrate around Seminole properties in Tampa and Hollywood. But demand doesn't always follow the marquee. Sometimes six players drive to Gretna.

One table. Six waiting. A town most poker players couldn't find on a map.

The Rest of the Floor

Creek Entertainment Gretna's $5/$5 PLO blip was a single-signal snapshot, not a trend — but it's the kind of data point worth watching. If that waitlist holds on subsequent nights, the room has a case for spreading a second table at a stake that would make most rural card rooms nervous.

For now, six names on a whiteboard in the Florida panhandle is the number.