Texas Is Running $5/10/25 PLO While Vegas Runs Satellites

At 11:12 AM Central on May 31, TCH Social Las Colinas in Irving, Texas opened a $5/10/25 PLO game — the only mid-stakes PLO on Bravo right now that isn't inside a Nevada casino.

Let that sit for a second. The WSOP is running. The Horseshoe is packed. Every serious tournament grinder in the country is supposedly in Las Vegas. And a card room in a Dallas suburb fired up a $5/10/25 PLO game before noon.

The Cash Game Map Has Flipped

The conventional wisdom says WSOP season is when cash games outside Vegas dry up. Players migrate west, local rooms thin out, and anything above $2/$5 goes dormant until August. That narrative made sense in 2018. It doesn't hold in 2026.

The only mid-stakes PLO on Bravo right now that isn't inside a Nevada casino opened in a Dallas suburb before noon.

It's Not Just Texas

Two seconds after TCH Las Colinas posted that PLO game on Bravo, Hustler Casino in Gardena, California opened an NL $10/$20. Same morning, same WSOP weekend, same indifference to the gravitational pull of the Horseshoe.

Two rooms. Two states. Neither in Nevada. Both running mid-to-high-stakes games while half of poker Twitter is posting satellite bad-beat stories from the Strip.

The counter-argument writes itself: these are just two games on one morning, not a trend. Fair. But two years ago, neither of these games opens during WSOP week. The $5/10/25 PLO player in Irving isn't flying to Vegas to sit in a $5/$10 NLH game and wait for a PLO table to break out at 2 AM. He's playing at TCH because TCH has the game he wants, when he wants it.

What This Actually Means

The American cash-game ecosystem no longer revolves around the Strip. Texas rooms are running action that used to require a plane ticket. California rooms are holding their lineups through the summer. Vegas still has the tournaments, the prestige, and the $100/$200 uncapped games nobody else can match. But the middle of the market — the $5/$10, the $10/$20, the PLO games that keep the lights on — is scattering across the map.

TCH Social Las Colinas isn't competing with the Bellagio. It's making the Bellagio irrelevant for anyone within driving distance of DFW who wants to play PLO before lunch.