New cardroom in Minneapolis area whacked

[Cooling Heels]

The proposed new cardroom in north suburban Minneapolis was
scrapped due to political pressure from the current
monopoly holder of cardrooms. So much for competition
over rake and game selection at Canterbury.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5045857.html

[Andy B]

If you think Canterbury has no competition, you don't talk to the right people. Oh, they don't have any legal competition, and the home game scene isn't what it used to be, but it is still alive and well.

[Cooling Heels]

Actually, I have a home game to hit Saturday night,
but a public cardroom with alternatives to limit Hold
Em would be nice.

The Star Tribune article smells of political vote buying.

[whiskeytown]

if those guys had the political clout to buy off a new racetrack, they'd have had the clout to get their Racino (which they don't)

or maybe we all forgot that Canterbury was allowed to have poker cause the racetrack was FAILING - [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

RB

[Andy B]

Oh, Canterbury has alternatives:

$20/40 Omaha/8 every Monday

$30/60 stud/8 every Thursday (this just started, but it looks like it will stick).

$2/4 stud daily, sometimes $3/6! $4/8 and $6/12 on the occasional weekend. Can't beat that.

$4/8 Omaha/8 more or less daily for reasons I can't begin to fathom.

You're right, unless you like playing for ridiculous stakes, be they ridiculously high or ridiculously low, limit hold'em is your only option at Canterbury. Home games allow you the option of not only playing games other than hold'em, but also for playing for even more ridiculous stakes, depending on which end of the scale you're on.