Bay Area(ish) Casinos

[I-Love-Poker]

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i played cache creek once. its a very nice casino for the area. They had a few tables of low fixed limit 2/4 or 3/6 and some 2/4 NL 100-200 buy in that was donktastic. i was there on a thursday afternoon.. there were 2 tables of NL on probably four of the limit which i wasn't paying much attention to. a very nice poker room with some good gimmicks (aces cracked, etc). but the casino itself is very nice

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really?

[TakenItEasy]

If you don't mind a bit of a drive try Napa Valley Casino. It's tiny but friendly. They have a $1/$3 NL no cap. The best thing is that they charge time $6/half hour. Works out much cheaper than most Bay Area rakes. They also have a hotel discount worked out across the street.

Another small casino is American Canyon Casino. I think it's $2/$2/$3 with a $4 rake $300 cap? Been awhile so not sure of the details.

Lucky Chances is probably your best bet. The $1/$1/$2 is pretty close to what you want. More of a casino atmosphere. I think the cap was $200. An oddity with Lucky Chances is that they make you limp for double the big blind. As a result you can think of the blinds as half size, probably zero after the rake, so raising in EP doesn't make much sense. This seems to encourage a lot of limped pots. They also have a $2/$3/$5 $500 cap I think.

Bay101 and Garden City have spread limit where the betting is also capped

Garden City:
$1/$1/$2 $2-$100 $100 cap
$1/$3/$5 $5-$200 $200 cap

Bay101:
$2/$3/$5 $5-$100 $100 cap
$5/$5/$10 $10-$200 $1,000 cap

The spread limit plays a lot like NL unless it's a raised multiway pot. Then it plays more like a large limit game after the flop. Implied odds may be limited below what you normally expect in NL so Daniel Negreanu would probably hate it. Hard to justify playing the T7o against a tight EP raiser.

Sorry if I got some of the details wrong. It's been a while since I played at some of the lower limits.