ONE MONTH OF NL POKER IN FLORIDA

[warlockjd]

5/10 NL Time Charge Seminole Hard Rock: $8/30 minutes
Sounds crazy, but true.

Crazy variance, a few idiots, some decent players (above average, and are probably winning right now, but will get crushed if/when FL games tighten up), and no experts in the 8 hours that I played. 7PM - 3 AM Mon PM.


Bring at least $1500 as when you push with 10 BBs, you may get 4+callers and may need to dig deep before you get that stack to $1000 where it belongs.

Stuck $413 in that session.

Potted 12 outer into field on the flop, missed, shoved the turn, missed, bye bye $400. Rebuy $100.

Called my last $130 on the turn getting 4.85ish to 1 on my outside straight draw on rainbow unpaired board, missed, no $700 pot for me, rebuy $100.

Last hand, $320 pot with AQo all preflop v J9o, Jacks and nines beat Ace high. Must be at work in 6 hours, so go home to bed.

Hit gas station for 2 $5 Texas Hold Em lottery tickets while getting smokes on the way back, hit 2 outer, win $100.

Stuck $323 on the night.

Try to post results on 2+2 Mon night, fall asleep while typing.

[warlockjd]

Oh, yeah, saw KK unimproved take $12-1600ish off of AJo on a Jack high board. Limp, caller bets 75 on flop, PF rzr makes 250, AJ minickrzd KT2r flop to 500, shoved turn 7. Sure looked like a set.

KK Caller was some tournament donkey that finished 4th or 5th in the WSOP a year or few ago, he claimed.

I think he neede to make it at least 750 on the turn to get some fold equity, but thats just me.

Oh, and Eddie Jones played for a while and was better than expected.

[Miamipuck]

Hey Warlock you were there when I was there the other night.
Some of the guys at my table left to go play in the 5/10 game that just opened. They were straight up gamblers. One guy showed 3-4 bluffs in about 30 minutes at the 1/2 table. He would bet 30 into a $10 pot. He rebought 2-3 times while i was there. LOL He was later busted in the 5/10 game. Anyway I heard that the 5/10 was Yahtzee.


I had my worst night by far. I caught absolutely no cards and the table I was on there was a lot of raising and re raising. Still time charge and all I was only down 10 bucks.

Even with the time rake these games are definitely profitable. In the 1-2 game one guy had 900 bucks in front of him. He won half of it on a ridiculous hand that he practically wore his AA around his neck yet still had 2 callers. One called off 300+ the other 100+. He was playing just downright stupid. Raising people to 80 bucks in unraised pots, telegraphing hands etc shame I never got a hand to challenge him except a few hands he called off 20-30 bucks.

I see tons of regulars (they have to be they all know each other) come to a table and proceed to buy in 100 a couple of times lose and then leave. I have no earthly idea how they are regulars.

I think because of how touristy S. Florida is and that the max buy in is only $100 that it will be a long time before these games dry up. They are eerily similar to how Party used to be except with a higher rake.

[beerboy92]

how are the $1/2 games, and what are the rakes for these games? I plan on playing them in Tampa this coming week

[Fishhead24]

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how are the $1/2 games, and what are the rakes for these games? I plan on playing them in Tampa this coming week

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10% with a maximim of $5.00

Most places also take out $1 for various jackpot promos.

Sarasota and the Tampa Downs use a time rake of $5 per half hour.

[TGPDLR]

TGHound stopped the $6.00 per 1/2 hr rake at the request of the players. While many of the dealers are new (including me)they were trained for 12 weeks by some of the best people in the business. If you balance the rake over time most will see that a timed rake is not as bad as it seems. With it the pressure is on us to perform so as not to upset our customers. Give us newbies a fair shake and you will see that we if nothing else are consistent in our rules and regs, and that we (dealers and management) all play from the same handbook. That is something you may not get at other venues. That is not a knock on other places. I hear things while dealing. Most complaints are that decisions are not consistent. If nothing else, you get that at TGHound.

[lefty rosen]

Does GA have recruiters at these games? I wonder how many people will end up homeless because of these games.... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

[facepull]

you know there are some books to learn how to play. also playing free on the internet can help alittle. plus this web site. and if these idiots dont take advantage of all this then to hell with them. when they go homeless there will be plenty more players to step into their shoes.

[Fishhead24]

Less than 100 spots remaining for the 500@500 at Derby Lane on September 30th.

[parisron]

That tourney is not very good at all. According to the formula in the book the tourney formula. a solid tourney gets a # of 10 or more after calculations. The derby tourney gets a 7 and for $500 that sucks. by comparison the deepstack events at venetian got 14.5 on the $330 and 20 on the $550. One of the worst donkaments in vegas was at paris the $65 and that gets a 4.5 . the number refers to patients factor. the higher the # the more patients you can have in a tourney. the 6pm tourney at Tampa dogs gets a 6.