It looks like it’s going to happen.  Florida will be getting go-for-broke limits in the poker rooms starting July 1.  I’ve talked with a few poker room managers and they’re all saying pretty much the same thing:  they’re waiting for the mountain of procedures that will be sent to them to regulate these changes.

I can’t lie to you, I’m THRILLED to death to hear that our government is sending them a whole lot of regulations.  Florida poker rooms need to understand that this is real money that’s being shoved around, and it should be treated with laws and common sense – lots of both.

It might be unnecessary to create procedures on how to handle the changes for some poker rooms, like The Isle,  Calder, and Mardi Gras, but for the rest of the poker rooms in South Florida, throw the book at them.  This isn’t a toy that they’ve been handed.  It’s essentially license to bankrupt any desperate soul in South Florida that they want.

Poker rooms, you have been given new powers.  Use them wisely and only for good.  And this time we aren’t kidding.