752 passes the house 77-38

CS/CS/CS/SB 752 was substituted for HB 1477 and passed by a vote of 77-38 so now we just wait Charlie's signature and the calander to turn to July 1 and then it is a little higher stakes poker for us in Florida. Alright!!!

Now everyone who wants this bill signed into law needs to write Charlie Crist.

Gov. Crist contact form.

This bill will increase the limit stakes to $5 per bet from $2, allows for $100 max buy-in no limit games, high hand jackpots, and $800 max buy-in tournaments.

The bill - CS/CS/CS/SB 752

See how your legislators voted on the bill.

The House Vote.

Find you house rep.

Palm Beach Post report on Bill 752

After a quick search today The Palm Beach Post was the only paper in Florida I could find that carried the news of the cardroom bill 752 passing the Florida State Senate.

Link is here

Five Dollar Poker? Could be. The Senate passes the Cardroom Bill.

The Florida Senate passed Bill 752 on Friday, April 29, with a vote of 29-10. This bill will increase the limit stakes to $5 per bet from $2, allows for $100 max buy-in no limit, high hand jack pots, and $800 max buy-in tournaments.

The bill - CS/CS/CS/SB 752

See how your legislators voted on the bill.
The Senate Vote.

Find your senator.

Contact your Florida House Rep and let them know you want a yes Vote on HB 1377 or if they adopt the Senate bill it is SB 752. You can locate your Rep at the following link. Just enter your ZIP code and then click the "Email your Representative" icon on the upper right hand side of the page.

Find you house rep.

Begining of the Repeal?

"Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 that would create an exemption to the ban on online gambling for properly licensed operators, allowing Americans to lawfully bet online"

The above begins the House Committee on Financial Services press release.

Read the rest here

If you feel you want your Representative to know how you feel about the above legislation you can email him/her at this link

Write your Representative.

Double Flop

Scott from Ante Up! has a pretty interesting strategy for the Two Dollar double flop game found at Derby Lane among other Florida poker rooms.


Scott's Strategy - April 24 post

another ante up podcast

http://pod.sptimes.com/anteup097.mp3

yeah splits and dealers

not downtown

some psot heer

http://pod.sptimes.com/anteup096.mp3

GSN or somethng

link it here

Deep Stacks at Derby Lane

Thursdays are Deep Stack days at Derby Lane. The poker room now will run 6 deep stack multi table tournaments giving each player 4000 units to start. The deep stacks do not include the main tournaments or the single table SNG's.


The deep stack schedule is as follows

Start time Min/Max players

1:00 pm 50 players
2:00 pm 40-50 players
3:00 pm 30-40 Players
7:00 pm 30-40 players
8:00 pm 40-50 players
9:00 pm 30-40 players

The tournaments have 20 minute blind levels and progress at the following rate.

25/50, 50/100, 100/200, 200/400, 300/600, 500/1000, 1000/2000, 2000/4000, 3000/6000 and 4000/8000 until the end of the tournament.