Mountaineer Trip Report- WV

[CSuave]

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hang in there, also Pennsylvania will have poker in 2009 and you probably are the same distance from Erie or Pgh as the Mountain,so maybe one of the new poker rooms will have their act together?

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Are you sure PA will have poker in two years? What leads you to believe this?

[CSuave]

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witzo...you play in any homegames in warren? also, i might be willing to carpool down to mountaineer, depending on the day/time..i'm right up route 11 in girard, and lived in warren my whole life up until 3 years ago...

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I'm not really big on underground games etc. I'm real paranoid about not wanting to get raided/robbed ever since the crap that went down in Columbus a couple years ago. One of such instances when a kid I knew, Max McGuffin decided to commit armed robbery at a poker game.

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Witzo, your buddy the tall white kid that used to like to play 10/20 that was involved in that stupid stunt?

[Witzo]

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Do they have a poker room rate at mountaineer? or is there any decent inexpensive hotels close by to stay?

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Ive called twice and the hotel and the poker room seem to know nothing about the poker room rate. who do I need to talk to or how do I go about getting it? thanks.

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It's not a poker room rate. It's a "Roaring 20's" Players club rate. Same card that's used for Slots and Poker.

Also the poster asking about my "buddy" playing 10/20, I don't know who that is. If you're talking about Max McGuffin, he was a kid I played MTG with when he was 15/16 and I lived in Columbus. A year or two after I moved back home he committed the armed robberies.
Here's the Max McGuffin story.

[Spiffysean]

I live in Robinson, and am tryin to figure out which room would be better between Wheeling and Mountaineer?

I prefer playing 5/10 Omaha, but if the 1/2 is as soft as everyone says, you have to go where the +EV is!

Any suggestions?

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i guess my brother and i are going down this saturday...probably be there all day..

[Gydyon]

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I live in Robinson, and am tryin to figure out which room would be better between Wheeling and Mountaineer?

I prefer playing 5/10 Omaha, but if the 1/2 is as soft as everyone says, you have to go where the +EV is!

Any suggestions?

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Go to Mountaineer -- straight up 60 to CLinton, then 30 to Chester, then 2S. Less than an hour, more rooms.

Wheeling's quick for you too, so I would just go to the one where a wait is less likely.

Mountaineer spread PLO this weekend, but I would avoid it. 1/2, no cap.

[Spiffysean]

Well yeah, as much as I love PLO, playing it in that kind of setting is sick. Why play a game where you can't ever be a 4:1 favorite? It gives bad players too big of a shot to pick you off, and unless you have a roll of around 4k for a 1-2 game, you are better off reeling in at the 1/2NLHE game.

Since the casinos are equal distance from me, I'm looking more for the type of action, game spreads, and overall quality of the room. Anyone who has been to both care to compare?

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Since the casinos are equal distance from me, I'm looking more for the type of action, game spreads, and overall quality of the room. Anyone who has been to both care to compare?

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If you're in Robinson, Mountaineer has got to be closer, right? Still, worth the drive to Wheeling if you don't like cigarette smoke.

[Spiffysean]

Ok, here is the report from last night:

I got there around 9pm, and it was fairly open. I splashed around at a 3/6 limit game, waiting for a seat at the Omaha H/L game. Even at 3/6, it was amazing at how bad the players were. Standard 7-9 players seeing every flop, raised or not - it gave a LOT of potential to flop a monster, and make some great money - Which I did. Nobody folds! Granted, you get sucked out on (guy with 4-3 catches up to my kings on the river with a board of 4-6-9-J-4) but overall, you can make money if you play A-B-C poker.

The Omaha game was tight, but beatable. I was card dead for a few hours, but ended up squeaking out a small profit.

I ended up knowing some of the dealers/floor from playing in games around Pittsburgh (papoker.com and similar firehall tournies) At any rate, I started picking their brains for some of the better action there since I was in laid-back limit mode for the evening.

The 2/5NL game is just as sick as everyone says. So much so that with my reputation alone I was offered to be staked in the game, because it was so easy to beat. I might have to take them up on that. Expected profits of around 2k a session are not unreasonable. The issue is having the roll to do it - since it's likely that you will get busted out by some donkey chasing a naked flush draw or something against your set... costing you 500 bucks. I'd say 1500 is a good roll if you plan on playing 2/5NL for the night.

For 1/2NL, there is no way to describe how bad it is. People shoving pre-flop with pocket 4's, calling down with bottom pair, etc. And it doesn't matter what you bet! You can fire 40 dollars into a 15 dollar pot, and still get 3 callers.

The smoke sucked. I would not be shocked if they change it so that you can't smoke anywhere on that floor. What is the point of having a non smoking poker room if the railbirds can literally stand on the rail blowing smoke in? I'd recommend a smoking room or section in that building - it's big enough.

Anyway, the bad stuff:

The TV's were small, and non-existant. They really need to get bigger screens, and get them on the pillars around the room. a few 20 inch TV's on the far walls doesn't do 75% of the room any good. The cocktail service was not bad, but paying for booze is bad. It didn't deter a lot of people who felt like just literally handing me all of their chips.

Good room, with a lot of potential. I might have to check out Wheeling, just for the contrast. I hope it's helpful.

BTW - They are having a weekly 10/25 game on Fridays, I believe. Not a bad game, and they run a 5/10 must move alongside it. Great higher limit action that you would not expect, and they seperate the good dealers/staff on the other side of the room with the higher altitude games.

Overall the dealer quality was average, but improving. I had a few dealers through the night (thanks Eric) that I've played with, and know that they knew what they were doing.

Hope this helps!

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there was a 10/25nl game going yesterday afternoon, too...took a little doing, but it was going.

as a smoker, i love the fact that i had to take literally 7 steps from my table to smoke, but i completely understand non-smokers at a table along the rail...you can smoke literally in an entire circle around the tables, just not at the tables. my brother (nonsmoker, usually) was happy being 'it could've gotten ridiculous if everyone could smoke at the tables', but again, i see the point. there has to be room somewhere in that big room for us to go...

again, to me, i loved it. i could leave and be back for the next hand. but if you despise smoke, it's a little strange...