California NL - ALL CAPPED Buy in ???

[surfinillini]

Does anyone know why all (or at least from what I've seen) CA NL games have a capped buy in...unlike vegas or other places such as Tunica. Some kind of gaming law?

[Ulysses]

They don't.

[Photoc]

I dont know what you're talking about. Most rooms run restricted and unrestricted buy in.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Does anyone know why all (or at least from what I've seen) CA NL games have a capped buy in...unlike vegas or other places such as Tunica. Some kind of gaming law?

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In Los Angeles you will find both but a lot more fixed or spread buy-in games. For instance, this Sunday evening Hollywood Park Casino had one $400 fixed buy with 5/10 blinds, three $200 fixed buy with 3/5 blinds and about five $100 buy games with 2/3 blinds. They had one $500 min buy-in game with 5/10 blinds. The min-buy game used to be pot limit but now it's no limit.

The Bicycle Casino (around 10:00pm) had four $100 fixed buy-ins, two $200 fixed buy-ins (both with blinds identical to Hollywood Park), and one $300-$500 spread buy with 5/5 blinds. They also had two $500 min buy-in games with 5/10 blinds, although one broke just after I arrived.

Hawaiian Gardens should have had a couple more fixed-buy games than the Bike or Hollywood with the fixed buys set at $100 (2/3 blinds), $300 (3/5 blinds), and $500 (5/10 blinds). Their pot limit with 5/10 blinds rarely goes these days.

Hustler probably had three $100-$300 spread buy games with blinds of 3/5.

Commerce probably had about three or four $400 fixed buys with 5/10 blinds, seven or eight $200 buy games, and six or seven $100 buy games. The $100 and $200 games are similar to the Bike games. The Commerce usually has three $600 min buy-in games with 10/20 blinds and often one bigger game.

The Bike, Hustler, and Hawaiian Gardens now have very tiny fixed-buy games, but it appears you have to be college age to play, so I'm not sure of the structures. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Hawaiian Gardens host/prop Dave Simon pioneered the fixed buy games about five years ago. They thrive relative to the min-buy games primarily because it's a non-threatening way to introduce the players to NL poker.

Hope this helps,

~ Rick