Trash Creek snatch game---Injun casinos can be ripoffs too

[mkl54321]

Wandered into the poker room at Cache Creek in CA. The casino is in the absolute freakin' middle of nothing and nowhere, about 1 1/2 hrs from the Bay Area. The casino is big and opulent. It's a far cry from when I was there some 15 years ago, when it was basically a big inflatable tent with cheating video poker, and BJ tables that charged 5% a hand whether you won, lost, or pushed. (The VP was almost funny, so blatantly did the machines cheat.)

Well, they've gotten religion. Or respectability. Or something. Anyway, it's now a Vegaslike carpet joint. (Although: it's still an Injun casino, so you have NO guarantee that you'll be paid if you hit a jackpot, or for that matter if you'll make it back out the front door.)

I wanted to warn everybody about the cardroom. It's a monster, with 28 tables. There's the usual smorgasboard of games---BUT THE RAKES ARE HORRIBLE. It's LA-style preflop-grab, with rakes as high as LA, even though it's just a glorified Injun card barn out in the middle of Dirt Land. I suffered through a couple of hours of 2-4 NLHE; they dropped the whole pot preflop ($5/$1 JP). They were "nice" enough to put $5 back in if there was no flop.

Amazingly, the players/bozos wouldn't chop to save the rake. Many was the time that some cementhead was the first limper from the cutoff or the button, leaving the BB to roll his eyes as he prepared to fight over a $4 pot (or, more accurately, a $10 pot that had been raked 60%; I consider the JP drop to be just another element of the rake as only about 3% of that money ever gets returned to the players).

I would up losing my $60 buyin when I faced just such a limp-hole on my BB, who just couldn't RESIST playing A6 offSOOT; naturally, I had J9 of the same SOOT (spades) as his A, and naturally, I flopped a flush, and naturally, he called my all-in for his six-outer (I had an inside SF redraw) on the turn, and naturally he hit. And the addled cretin will go on to REPRODUCE...and VOTE.....

I urge everyone to stay away from this worthless toilet, although barring a deliberate, misguided trip there, the only way you might ever wind up there is if your plane crashes.