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GL, CW!
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I’m starting to think maybe you should play more tournaments. 
GLGL
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WSOP really made me hungry for live poker. unfortunately there isnt much in Germany. Thought i could go to Hamburg for the stars evenz but i am occupied that weekend and the structure seems shit. 20 min levels.
this made me laugh for some reason.
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Rozvadov?
I was there 2 years ago to play Wsope but back then i borrowed a car from my brother to get there. There is no train station in Rozvadov so you either need to use their shuttle service which isnt free for recs or pay a cab from the closest train station. During the last few weeks they streamed affordable tourneys almost every weekend. But once you factor in the costs for hotel and travel it isnt very appealing anymore. They also take out lots of money for the wsope seats so you have to come back in november to play the WSOPE main event. “Casino As” has better connections but their tourneys are much smaller. I probably wait till the Spielbank Berlin is finished renovating and hope they offer something then.
I’d be curious to see how the euro live poker experience compares to the american one. i don’t mind live poker at a place like, bellagio or paris but the LA poker rooms are some of the worst poker playing experiences you can conjure up, and anywhere outside of certain places like vegas is mostly the same to me.
itching to go play live is not an emotion i typically get here
Turkish Cyprus series (mostly Merit) are a billion times better than any other poker venue ive been to, but rake is a motherfucker.
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I haven’t played much in almost 10 yrs, but I used to love playing at Commerce. Always a game, always soft, food options for a poker room were pretty good. What happened?
hawaiian gardens, bike, commerce are all the same to me.
high rake - $8 a hand. extremely rude and abusive players - at my 8/16 table me and only one other guy were tipping. an old man in a walker next to me almost fell over when another guy rushed to take his seat. no one respects the floor calling out seats and just grab whatever open ones they can find. the floor is awful and rude. i sign up on the screen for a game and by the time i walk over to the cage (15 seconds) they’ve moved past my name. i wanted to play in the mexican poker game so i was railing it, only to be told by the floor i cant rail it despite 5-7 other people railing the same game. can’t sit in any of those games because people’s friends fill the seat and name never gets called (waited 2 hours for the 500nl game and saw half a dozen seats fill without being called).
food service to the table didnt appear to work when I was last there. their app doesn’t work. you gotta park super far most nights and there’s very little security and it doesn’t feel safe. no beverage service. no charger usb ports at the table and was told i couldnt use the plug for my charger on the floor beneath the table. idk i could go on, i only go there because the games are unbelievably soft and there’s tons of LHE tables and a mixed game that runs sometimes which isn’t common.
at least the 2/5 game at commerce lets me open to $12 preflop. the wsop tables wouldnt let me and i nearly tilted over it. you could only raise in $5 denominations.
Only played California once and it sucked but Bellagio has to be the absolute nut low poker experience on earth, right? That room is awful.
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Well, there was definitely some of that stuff too. Floor and food service were great as I remember them. Maybe that changed. I’ll look the other way on a lot of stuff for a soft game where I never have to wait much (I played exclusively 20-40 and 40-80 LHE).
This has been the case in lots of rooms I’ve played at, and I think its a great rule. Speeds up the game significantly not having to constantly make change. Requires the dealer to get less frequent fills, which also speeds up the game. Makes the game play a little bigger. Keep the $13 and $27 bets for the $1/3 games imo.
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Red chip rule or bust. You raising to $13 in a 2/5 live game with a bunch of scrubs is no different than $15.
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@anon38180840 are you comfortable with posts about your chip count or hands you’ve played that would make your identity easy to look up, or do prefer to keep your identity private from people who don’t already know?
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yea it does, i need blue chips to tip for drinks
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Yeah, whites only count for all ins in anything above $1/3.
Anything else gets the jerking off motion from me
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My room they only count in increments of 5, even for all ins. That part is a little weird, but dealers make a few extra bucks when someone busts out and throws their remaining $4 to the dealer so I’m good with it.
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My first time playing 2/5 I tried making a bet with ones and the dealer just wordlessly pushed them back towards me lol
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