Decided to go play early morning 2/5 plo at 6:30 am to take on the tired stuck all nighters. Ended up taking $1400 off a guy wearing a MAGA hat. Might be best money I’ve ever won.
Took home $3,100 on a 3 hour session!
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I love this a lot. I have no real interest in playing poker again, but when they finally open casinos in NYC I may have to brush up just to occasionally get up super early and get in a couple hours before work.
It’s by far the most profitable time to play. I’ve been doing it every Sunday for a few weeks.
Listening to DAT Poker Podcast #107. Daniel Negreanu says around the 22-minute mark that Rob Mizrachi and Will Failla were passing out fake vaxx cards at his table at the Wynn.
Feels like people should be asking questions about this.
The new poker room manager for the rebranded and opening soon Horseshoe Indianapolis reached out to me on Reddit and about any games, policies, promotions I would like to see as a player. Figured I would ask the pros here since I haven’t spent a ton of time in card rooms.
So far I have: Bomb pots, PLO, and BBJ.
My general feeling is that poker room management needs to be firm and not let players run the room. Some of the players, especially the pros, will want policies that make the game bigger, but the manager needs to look out for the best interests of the room and not burn out the clientele.
Until you can prove that the player pool can sustain doing more, I’d suggest limiting straddles to UTG and not allowing re-straddles.
The regs are poker whores. They’ll keep coming so long as you don’t fuck up majorly. It’s more important to encourage the casuals who aren’t likely to come more than once a month.
Poker rules are somewhat arbitrary and it’s more important to have rules enforced the same by different dealers rather than finding the perfect rule. Players want to be treated fairly and you help create that by enforcing rules consistently.
There are parts of Mason’s book on running poker rooms that I think are wrong, but it’s not all bad.
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A well run room is way more important than promos. Food availability. Timely drink service. A floor that’s on top of shit. Competent dealers. Good game availability.
That said there are people that seem to play just chasing that big BBJ score. You want it to be in the 6 figure range a lot. That gets people talking.
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Tell him to spread Pan.
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I think high hand promotions are better for sustaining action and the local poker economy than BBJs. People can be long-term losers but have several $500-$2000 high hand scores, which are memorable, and keep them coming back. Tournaments are also good for action.
Agree about service. My local room has very hit or miss drink service, and lots of players get pissed off when it’s a miss.
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Basically what Koss said. Worry about having good staff and service way more than good promos. You need tournaments and cash games. Whether you have a BBJ, high hand or honestly nothing is just extra.
Most players don’t play high stakes. Having a weekly $100 tournament where they might final table or win for $3k or whatever is the highlight in most casuals poker life.
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Yea nothing pisses people off more than bad drink service. When I’m in the mood to drink and gamble this is literally my main criteria heh. Things like regular cleanings of the floor and bathrooms and not having to smell smoke go a long way. Reasonably priced food menu w/ some healthy options is very nice as well.
Agreed with the high hand promos, it’s nice to win something every once in a while than almost never or never. Of course I’d prefer no promos as god knows how much on top these casinos take for themselves.
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Not something you can really control as much, but having competent younger/attractive female dealers really works to the poker clientele as well.
This is Indiana.
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Why do you insist the poker clientele has to be a sausage fest?
Ha yea, same with the cocktail waitresses. The ones who flirt back a bit and can handle the misogynistic comments well are basically adored by a good percentage of the room.
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At my local room the best two dealers were two young women, one was one of the nerdiest people I knew. Did cosplay fests and such, knew every comic book storyline etc.
sounds hot
Awesome, definitely not normal!
The other one it seemed like the job got them into dating older dudes and doing cocaine, so not as great there. All the good male dealers just got promoted to floor staff quickly.
There’s a guy on a table next to me with a shirt that says “leak detection specialist” and its very much no pun intended (he works for pg&e and seems oblivious to the joke).
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