Wheeling Island Poker Room *update*

[Tcchap]

I agree that the dealers seemed competent but nervous which is to be expected.

Cage was ridiculous, I have never seen a cage worker use a calculator to cash out chips. It was quite comical actually.

I don't think the wait list thing is going to be a problem for long but the waitlists were a joke. The floor was just grabbing people to fill seats so if you were on a wait list and just listened for your name to be called forget it. like I said, when the initial excitement wears off, there aren't going to be a whole lot of people on wait lists.

The staff was going out of their way to be friendly. I think it is going to be a great place to play.

[hooligan]

This is my first post and I haven't been playing poker because there was never any place convenient, but Wheeling and the Mount are close enough for me to start up again, I read the books and practice on the internet and plan on making a trip to W V to try my luck and learn the ropes, I realize I’ll be a fish at first so I need to start off slow so
I don’t lose too much money while I’m learning, I’m looking at LHE at the lowest buy in I can play to get started, any recommendations will be appreciated, also the best time to play to miss the big crowds, I’m flexible on time, so I can play anytime?
This probably should be in the beginners section, but I’m only interested in W V poker, so I posted here

I read in the paper if you get a four of a kind, J thru A that you win $2500.00!

Thanks for any information you can provide for a noobie.

[Tcchap]

2/4 limit hold'em is the lowest. As far as when to miss the big crowds, it seems like right now that is impossible.

[golfmark]

I went Saturday morning about 9:00 a.m. and there were only about 5 tables going. I don't think they all were filled until about 1:00 p.m.

[da burgh]

I was there friday, arrived around 1:30, got a seat around 2:30, kind of expected to wait this long. I tried to call in and put my name on the list while I drove down, but they aren't doing phone ins which I didnt really like. There were more than a few problems in my opinion, but nothing that shouldn't be fixed soon. The biggest one, in my opinion, was the desk and the waiting lists. They have the fancy computer tables that are supposed to let the desk know when there is an open seat. This would be great if the people at the desk would clear the lists. I was 7th on the list for about 40 minutes, when I can clearly see more than 7 open seats throughout the room. The girl would continually call the first 4 or 5 names over and over when the people clearly were not showing up, or were already seated. This got progresively worse over the night, my table had 3 empty seats (not a prob b/c I love shorthanded games) for at least 25 minutes when there was 108 people on the list for 1/2.
The dealers, bad, to say the least. Some were better than others, but still need practice. I have never heard of this, and I made it known to the dealer who enforced it, he called it the "California Floating Button". Here's the situation, I was UTG, the BB got involved in the hand and busted out. This would have made me BB only, and a dead SB, or so it has been in every other casino I have played in. Instead, I posted a BB, and the player to my left (should be UTG) had to post a BB as well because there has to be 2 blinds posted he said? After this, I had to post a SB the next hand, and a SB when I was on the button??? (it was only $1 so I didn't care much)
More beef, the High Hand jackpot sign clearly states "Get four jacks or BETTER", no rules, nothing. A guy on the table next to me gets 4 Kings, but he only had 1 K in his hand, and 3 on the board...no pay. I heard from a guy that was moved to my table that on his other table, someone hit a royal flush, but didnt get paid because it is ONLY quads, which in my opinion is completely retarded.
Overall, it was ok, not too impressive though, bad dealers, bad cashier, bad floor, VERY bad players...I dunno, i'm gonna try mountaineer tonight and see if it is any better, after the steeler game obviously.

[jasonHoldEm]

The dealers are very friendly and most are fairly competent they just need more experience with the mechanics of working the game (this is further complicated by the all the extra bells and whistles on the tables...the autoshuffler, the swiping of player cards, etc).

The two main problems are the waitlists (largely caused by the dealers not being comfortable with the electronic panel on the tables yet and the floor just randomly sticking people in seats) and the effing cage/chip running.

According to the floor person I spoke with it's actually the gaming board who aren't allowing the dealers to make change at the table. This needs to be changed, I suggest they start a petition or something.

Until such time as that get changed they ABSOLUTELY MUST figure out a better way to get chips to the tables. I saw one guy sit for 15-20 mins after giving his cash to a chip runner before his chips got back to the table.

Obviously the delay is at the cage (I saw the lady using the calculator too, lol calcuments). I would like to think that part of the problem is the brand new chips which are still rough and difficult to cut/handle, but even with that caveat they're still pretty bad/slow (when I was cashing out I had to stop the lady from giving me too much money...it was only a buck but it's still a mistake she should not have made, if she can miscount in my favor she can also miscount in favor of the house and not everyone pays that much attention when cashing out...I'd recommend you know how many chips you have before you get to the window...thankfully you'll have plenty of time to do this given the line due to the incredibly slow cashiers).

All the same, I had a good time (the first live poker I've played in like a year and a half) and I'll probably become a regular there on the weekends once my workload slows down after the holidays.

jHE

EDITED TO ADD: FYI if you're coming from the east on 70 there is construction in the wheeling tunnel. It's open on the westbound lanes but the eastbound lanes (i.e. going home) are closed and there is a detour through wheeling (it's not horrible just a few blocks/lights a left turn and you're good). Supposedly they will be working on the westbound side of the tunnel in the next couple months so there will be a detour coming in as opposed to going out.

[hooligan]

I went to Wheeling and played 2 4 lhe, actually it was kind of fun, it was my fisrt time ever playing in a poker room so I can't compare it with any place else, but I think I will be going back.
I don't really have any complaints and I liked playing there better than on line, for some reason I can't concentrate when I play on line. I played for a couple hours and was $13.00 ahead when I quit. Some of the players were doing the straddle, how do you play the straddle?

[StevieG]

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Some of the players were doing the straddle, how do you play the straddle?

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Depends on the table makeup. If it tends to breed silly action, play your hands that do well multiway. If it tends to scare people off, use it as an opportunity to 3-bet with hands that you would like to play heads up against a really loose opponent (specifically in this case, two random cards).

[franknagaijr]

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franknagaijr, were you at the table where the guy had 6-2 offsuit with flop of A22 almost jumped out of his seat to call my all in out of turn. I had AK and this guy called a preflop raise of $15 with 6-2 off. The turn comes 6 but the river came an Ace.

If you were at that table, which dude were you? I was the guy that came in @ 11:30 pm and sat in seat 10.

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I responded by PM which one I was, did you get it?

I'm still drawing a blank which 10 seater you were, since the 7 to the 10 were swapped out so frequently. Are you in your 20s, 30s, or somwhere beyond that?

[WVUFtblFan]

I just got home from the Wheeling poker room, I live about two hours away. I really enjoyed the room. The other players were fun to play with, a few jerks, but I had a really good time playing limit holdem. There were a couple of good players, but mostly inexperienced players, which was nice to my bankroll. There are 20 tables, all of which were full around 7 o clock. I played in the afternoon and I really enjoyed it. Started to get packed at night. If you wanna go there to play 1/2 NL, you better show up at least an hour before you were thinking of playing. If you wanna play limit HE, omaha, or stud, you should be able to walk in and sit down as long as you show up by 5 or 6. The dealers werent as bad as everyone was saying, theyre finally getting some experience under their belts. Most of the problems I was were with floor men and chip runners. Hard to get chips at the table because you have to have a chip runner, they messed up the dealer rotation and we had the same dealer for an hour and a half, then seriously got three dealers in three hands, which holds up the game. Overall the room is nice, not stuffy, nice tables, chairs, and chips. I'll definitely be back.