It was a recent topic. This one I find a lot more interesting though. It is a poker room review and it isn’t mine. The bold type is my addition
_______’s has a perfectly serviceable room. The chairs are not uncomfortable, though very basic. The tables are in moderately good shape but not very attractive. There are big TV screens on the wall but they’re not the latest models. Everything is certainly good enough for a place designed for poker. But it’s nothing remarkable.
They spread $1/2 no-limit and $3/6 limit. They say that they also spread $2/5 no-limit but I did not find a game the three times I was by. Their rake is 10%, $4 maximum. They take out another $1 for the bad-beat and high-hand jackpots. High-hand jackpots ranged from $50 to $599 for different categories of quads, straight flushes, and royal flushes. If your four sevens are beaten and you and your opponent are using both of your hole cards the bad-beat jackpot kicks in. It was at $123,000 when I was there. [They also rake 10% from the bad beat jackpot.]
There are four no-limit tourneys a day: a $50 with a $40 add-on at 11:00 AM and 11:30 PM, and a $100 freezeout (no rebuy or add-on offered) at 3:30 PM and 7:30 PM. They seem to give relatively good play, with 20-minute and 15-minute blinds, $3,000 in tournament chips to start, and blinds starting at $25/50. Tourneys change regularly, however, so make sure to call the room before going over.
The room offers free drinks and “room service” for those wishing to eat at the table. The waitress service was slow; the waitress friendly and inattentive.
I was there Sunday at noon. There were three games going plus a “Jackpot” freeroll tournament taking up five tables. The tournament was for players who had completed forty hours of live-action poker play in one month or who had two daily tourney wins during the month of June.
There were a total of ten tables in the room. The players were all relatively sedate. The floor person and the brush were unfriendly, not eager to help me get a seat in a game or answer my questions about the structure of the game or the room itself. They seemed to think that they were doing me a favor by talking with me. Perhaps they were too busy to spend a few minutes talking.
The dealers were similarly unfriendly. What is it about _______s’ rooms? I’ve found this lack of enthusiasm and friendliness in many of their properties. It’s not that they are hostile, but they seemed unduly somber and unsmiling
I apologize for the mess. The old setup put everything in a default font. The new version doesn’t but there isn’t a way to manage fonts in the desktop. I use Open Office and the copy from PokerNews was a cut and paste that I thought should remain in the default font but something happened.