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After decades of playing poker in casinos and home games, I am confident that the popularity of NL hold em, via the television has had a negative impact overall , in the current era. It resulted in so many players entering NL hold em, that these players bankrolls were wiped out much faster then if those players had stuck to limit games and games like 7-stud / 7stud hi-lo . The weak players could have played for many more years if NL hold em did not become so popular.
Back in the 1990s , Nl hold em was NOT the most spread game in many casinos. I used to go to Atlantic city every weekend, and the poker rooms were packed and games like limit 10-20 or 15-30 or 25-50 7 stud and stud hi -lo, were very popular. I used to have to wait to get a seat and there were many tables of these games being played. This type of action has largely dried up and places like Tunica and Atlantic city have seen MASSIVE closures of their poker rooms and if they do have a poker room , its gonna mostly be a few table of NL hold em.
Back in the 90s, the max casino rake was $5 on a $100 pot. I called 12 casinos in Florida and all of them are now raking $5 on a $50 pot and they take $2 out for bad beat hand . This means on a $50 pot, they are taking out $7 . This is a enormous increase from not long ago.
The $2 rake for the bad beat jackpot , is something I have always despised because I am confident that casinos dont always give out all the money they take in on bad beat rake. A casino could take in $200,000 before the bad beat is hit, and the casino could say they only collected $100,000 for the bad beat jackpot payout.
In this modern age of casino poker, the players are really getting screwed not only thru heavy rake/ bad beat rake but also because NL hold em has caused so many weak/average players to lose so much money, so quickly.
I wish casinos would stop the bad beat $2 rake on a $50 pot or allow each player to opt out of it when they sit down at the table . I am confident the casinos are making a lot of money with bad beat payoffs, by not paying out all the money they collected.
Back in the 1990s , Nl hold em was NOT the most spread game in many casinos. I used to go to Atlantic city every weekend, and the poker rooms were packed and games like limit 10-20 or 15-30 or 25-50 7 stud and stud hi -lo, were very popular. I used to have to wait to get a seat and there were many tables of these games being played. This type of action has largely dried up and places like Tunica and Atlantic city have seen MASSIVE closures of their poker rooms and if they do have a poker room , its gonna mostly be a few table of NL hold em.
Back in the 90s, the max casino rake was $5 on a $100 pot. I called 12 casinos in Florida and all of them are now raking $5 on a $50 pot and they take $2 out for bad beat hand . This means on a $50 pot, they are taking out $7 . This is a enormous increase from not long ago.
The $2 rake for the bad beat jackpot , is something I have always despised because I am confident that casinos dont always give out all the money they take in on bad beat rake. A casino could take in $200,000 before the bad beat is hit, and the casino could say they only collected $100,000 for the bad beat jackpot payout.
In this modern age of casino poker, the players are really getting screwed not only thru heavy rake/ bad beat rake but also because NL hold em has caused so many weak/average players to lose so much money, so quickly.
I wish casinos would stop the bad beat $2 rake on a $50 pot or allow each player to opt out of it when they sit down at the table . I am confident the casinos are making a lot of money with bad beat payoffs, by not paying out all the money they collected.