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[jbutler]

Tropicana Evansville IN. These were mine until flopping nuts in two hands (Broadway and a wheel), getting all in on turn and losing to the flush. Yay poker.
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i know i'm in the minority, but i love those chips. shit luck, courage - may you run like god in new england (except when i'm in the pot).

 

[links_slayer]

i know i'm in the minority, but i love those chips.

You may be in the minority but you're not alone.

 

[courage]

It was my very first time playing with Bud Jones chips and I really liked 'em. Better play than Matsui {gasp}. Didn't care for the green spots on the $5 but that's the signature color.

The first suckout was most sickening. Playing 4 handed at must move table with kimi. Dude binks me then gets 200 from her next hand and racks up and leaves. I lectured him about hit & run. Later he was upstairs spewing it off at blackjack.

 

[MeridianFC]

Sorry 'bout the beats, but those chips look great. I didn't know Bud J was making chips like that.

 

[jbutler]

Sorry 'bout the beats, but those chips look great. I didn't know Bud J was making chips like that.

it's weird - the chip guide lists them as BJ chips, but they look like RTP to me. though i don't even know if RTP was still making chips when that place opened in June 2013.

 

[Ben]

it's weird - the chip guide lists them as BJ chips, but they look like RTP to me. though i don't even know if RTP was still making chips when that place opened in June 2013.

I could've sworn that those chips were made by ICON, but now I can't find any reference to it.

 

[jbutler]

I could've sworn that those chips were made by ICON, but now I can't find any reference to it.

they're definitely not icon. icons are one flat surface. they claim they're not ceramics, but they are (and are very, very good ceramics imo). but the trop chips above have a recessed center with a label/inlay which is more evident in the chipguide photos.

 

[guinness]

Didn't care for the green spots on the $5 but that's the signature color.

I absolutely love the mint spots on the 5's. Maybe its because I never see red $5's with mint 4DS18 spots. I too like the chips even though traditionally I'm not a Bud Jones/Matsui fan.

Sorry for the run bad. If there's any place to recoup the losses its going to be against the jackals in NH during BBBBB.

 

[guinness]

Bellagio 2/5. This was about noon. Wife and I arrived the previous day in Vegas and I hadn't even seen our hotel room yet. Wife went to bed around 2am after we partied and ate. I non stop pounded drinks and after about 6am I was double fisting Guinness and Bailey's with coffee. The guy on the opposite side is texting his friends to come over because clearly I couldn't see at this point. Wife came minutes after this picture to ask why the hell I haven't stopped drinking and gambling. She notifies me she is going to the pool. Instead of noon I honestly thought it was the middle of the night still. I cash out and try to sleep in our room but for hours my brain was short circuiting.


Ordering a 32oz IPA before going to Cirque Love.


Love line is long at Mirage so I sit at a 1/2 seat that is 3 feet away from our position in line. Wife is WTF but I won $20 or something in the 10 minutes I played.


5/10 at the Bellagio. Bad pic but wateva.


I wanted to her to show me her live rack but the wife was taking the picture.


My wife and HQ's wife getting hit on by these two extremely sloppy HAMMERED Elvis'ses in old Vegas. These guys REAKED of booze/butts and were just a complete mess. Took a while to shake them off. Its like 1 in the afternoon. Not a live stack of chips but just know these guys were clearly on a multi-day bender and said "hey I got an idea, lets get our costumes on and do it".

 

[courage]

Dealer Christine's stack from last week. Maybe this will show chips better.

They have a soft dull "thunk" when shuffling, and nice feel.

 

[RowdyRawhide]

You may be in the minority but you're not alone.

I would have to agree here.

 

[grandgnu]

My first trip to the Seminole Hard Rock in Tampa FL. Played the 3/6 Omaha hi/lo cash game with a full kill

my buyin





growing after winning a kill pot

 

[xt!]

Okay, quick ot questions... what is the rake in that 3/6o8 game and do you think it is beatable with the rake?

 

[grandgnu]

Okay, quick ot questions... what is the rake in that 3/6o8 game and do you think it is beatable with the rake?

According to the 2+2 FAQ

What is the rake?

All games are 10% up to $5 max and rake is
rounded up at $5, with $1 minimum rake every hand; $1 jackpot drop is taken at
$10:

$1 rake on any pot up to $9
$1 rake plus $1 jackpot drop on $10
to $14
$2 plus $1 on $15 to $24
$3 plus $1 on $25 to $34
$4 plus $1 on
$35 to $44
$5 plus $1 on $45 on up

Generally a good player in a good game can expect to earn about 2.5-3 bb/hr in limit O8. So for 3/6 that would be $15-18/hr. There is also the impact of the full kill coming into play. I don't have enough hours at this particular location to know how awful or good the players are just yet. Last night they seemed plenty terrible, but there were enough regs that it could be possible to wind up at a table full of regs who are relatively competent, to the point that the game would be unprofitable.

As long as the game is full-ring and has 5+ players seeing the flop on a regular basis, even with that rake and jackpot drop, I'm comfortable playing it. My goal will be to check out the 6/12 with a full kill at some point as well. Since the guys who play that also play 3/6 I figured I'd get my information on their skill levels at the cheaper stakes, plus the 6/12 wasn't going last night (too many players unwilling to leave their seats, although some of those guys were trying to coerce others at our 3/6 game to play it, saying "it's only a $120 min buyin")

I prefer to buyin for 25 bb in a limit O8 game, not 10. The dealers are also more competent and the players aren't as cunty as the ones at Foxwoods, which means the game actually moves pretty quickly (Foxwoods O8 game moved at a snails pace) so that will help with improving the hourly rate as well.

I heard sometimes they get an O.E. game running as well, which I'll hope to catch. No draw games unfortunately

 

[bergs]

According to the 2+2 FAQ



Generally a good player in a good game can expect to earn about 2.5-3 bb/hr in limit O8. So for 3/6 that would be $15-18/hr. There is also the impact of the full kill coming into play. I don't have enough hours at this particular location to know how awful or good the players are just yet. Last night they seemed plenty terrible, but there were enough regs that it could be possible to wind up at a table full of regs who are relatively competent, to the point that the game would be unprofitable.

As long as the game is full-ring and has 5+ players seeing the flop on a regular basis, even with that rake and jackpot drop, I'm comfortable playing it. My goal will be to check out the 6/12 with a full kill at some point as well. Since the guys who play that also play 3/6 I figured I'd get my information on their skill levels at the cheaper stakes, plus the 6/12 wasn't going last night (too many players unwilling to leave their seats, although some of those guys were trying to coerce others at our 3/6 game to play it, saying "it's only a $120 min buyin")

I prefer to buyin for 25 bb in a limit O8 game, not 10. The dealers are also more competent and the players aren't as cunty as the ones at Foxwoods, which means the game actually moves pretty quickly (Foxwoods O8 game moved at a snails pace) so that will help with improving the hourly rate as well.

I heard sometimes they get an O.E. game running as well, which I'll hope to catch. No draw games unfortunately

Nobody - and I mean nobody - is as inherently fucking grumpy as the Foxwoods O8 crowd.

 

[grandgnu]

Nobody - and I mean nobody - is as inherently fucking grumpy as the Foxwoods O8 crowd.

In their defense, when you get that tiny Asian lady dealer who keeps spreading the pot around like it's hold em instead of keeping it organized for easy distribution when the pot is split I can see a reason for some of their grumpiness. The dealers at the Seminole are 1000x better at keeping the game moving quickly and this keeps the players a lot happier.

Played again last night for four hours until the game broke around 2am. Left +$173 thanks to a couple of late kill pots that went my way. We almost snagged the high hand jackpot of $400 with a lady who had quad 3's but a few minutes before the buzzer another table snagged a T-high straight flush.

 

[bergs]

My problem with Foxwoods is the 107 year old idiot who only plays in the 3 or 7 seats, Billy who won't play with Danny, Danny who won't play with Ross, everyone hating anyone who raises pre, and most of them won't play 5 handed (they'll sit out and insist on being left it in the system and not put in the lobby. They never tip dealers, they tip waitress staff badly, and they're just miserable as fuck. It's a miracle the game ever goes. It was easier to get the space shuttle program started than an O8 game on a Saturday morning at Foxwoods.

 

[grandgnu]

My problem with Foxwoods is the 107 year old idiot who only plays in the 3 or 7 seats, Billy who won't play with Danny, Danny who won't play with Ross, everyone hating anyone who raises pre, and most of them won't play 5 handed (they'll sit out and insist on being left it in the system and not put in the lobby. They never tip dealers, they tip waitress staff badly, and they're just miserable as fuck. It's a miracle the game ever goes. It was easier to get the space shuttle program started than an O8 game on a Saturday morning at Foxwoods.

Lol, the last time I drove the hour and 15 minutes there I encountered the same thing. List is full, they call the game, only five players show up. They don't want to play with only five players (uh, if you start the game other people WILL fill in) and then some other guy was like "oh, he's got the 10-seat, I won't play if I can't get the 10-seat) and the game didn't go. When it was a 4/8 with a half-kill it was pretty fantastic, when it went back to 5/10 it changed for the worse.

 

[grandgnu]

Fortunately we were successful getting the 6/12 O8 (full kill to 12/24) running both Friday and Saturday nights. Hoping to continue that trend every weekend cause I'd much rather be playing the higher stakes.

 

[manamongkids]

Bergs Authentic Dunes set. This is from the BotB5. Heads up with chip lead

 

[Mr. Cheese]

Last night was the first time in my life I've ever played limit holdem. I was played 2/4 at Cantebury Park. Bought in for $60. I think it went pretty well but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves

After about 30 minutes:

About an 45 minutes in I'm in the small blind holding pocket Ace's. The big blind asks if I want to chop pre-flop. I say no I want to play so we see the flop, two more aces come so I hit quads. I bet, he calls, same on the turn, and the river so I at least got some value from my ace's! I wish more players had been in because I didn't win a lot being limit but it was better then chopping.

About 2 hours in after I switched tables because that table got down to too few players

After about 3 1/2 hours.

My highest was 210 off of my 60 dollar buy in. I did drop down a little below that before I cashed out at 3:30am because I had a couple bad beats. (I'm holding pocket Jacks, flop comes and I hit trips. I'm raising the whole time and this one guy keeps calling. He hits a flush on the river holding 2/8 suited so he had nothing but a flush draw from the get go). Overall I'm super happy with how my first limit game and for that matter casino cash game went. I definitely plan to play again sometime soon.

 

[grandgnu]

Playing @ the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa last night and there's a bunch of limpers in O8 so I limp the button with . Flop is and it's checked to me. I check, praying that someone will make a Royal and I'll win the bad beat jackpot by losing the hand. Turn is the and a guy in the blinds fires out, there's one caller, I just call. River is the and it goes Bet-Call-Raise (me) - Call (guy had turned Tens full)

So I win the pot plus get some extra bets out of my monster. People are talking about the High Hand and how I qualify, but then someone says "no, the high hand is a straight flush" but then we look and it's just switched over to the new 30-minute high hand period and the board on the wall shows HIGH HAND OPEN

My hand gets qualified, but I'm not feeling confident. This is a Saturday night, so the 50-table room is packed and usually the high hands that I see winning are a minimum quad Kings, but usually quad Aces or straight flushes/royals. And I have to fade the next 30 minutes.

Everytime the desk chimes in over the loudspeaker to call a player to a game I cringe, fearing they are announcing a better high hand. Yet somehow 8:30pm rolls around and my high hand is still standing. Then it's 08:35, then 08:37 and still my hand is on the board and I'm wondering why they haven't announced it as the winner seven minutes ago.

Then the board changes to HIGH HAND OPEN. Then a second later it changes to KKKKT but fortunately that came in after my 30 minute period. I flag a floor person down and he brings back a form I have to sign with my SS#, asks for my license, players card and another form of ID. Eventually a chip runner returns with my $400, all in greens except for the last $25 which is in reds (I guess he assumes I'll give him a red?) I toss him a $2 chip out of my stack and happily take my new chips.

 

[vikefan24]

According to their website on Fridays and Saturdays the high hand payout is $750 every 30 minutes.. It's $400 every 20 minutes if you are playing Sunday-Thursday

 

[grandgnu]

According to their website on Fridays and Saturdays the high hand payout is $750 every 30 minutes.. It's $400 every 20 minutes if you are playing Sunday-Thursday

Not sure where you're getting your info but at least for March it's $400

http://shrtpoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/March_High-Hand-Poker_2015.pdf

 

[guinness]

Old picture (2-3 years ago) and most have seen it by now. This was the famous (infamous) plaque attack night.. aka count plaque'ula, aka back to back plaque, aka stick to the plaques and nothing but the plaques. Local 1/2 underground game, ran in god mode. Got up to 8100, this is about 7K'ish. The orange plaques are 500's, the blacks are 100's. Todd to my left has 500 BB's but it looks like he's short stacking.

 

[courage]

My version of guinness' rungood.


And my stack after collecting a creamsicle plaque from him and Todd. lol dice plaques [emoji13]

 

[bmichaelhorn]

Lower stakes than most but the run good of my life at a .25/.50 home game. In for 50 out for 600. An 800 bb pot didn't hurt. Almost broke the table:

 

[gopherblue]

Since most of the posts/links/pix on the old blue interface are ass-over-teakettle, here is the net result of my run-good the very first time we put my Riversides in play, at Bergs' .25/.50 (yes, 25 cent, 50 cent!) circus table about a year ago. In the background, a typical modest river bet by Bergs in a SOHE hand. Bought in for a total of about $400, IIRC, and cashed out $1800.



Say...aren't we due for another soon?

 

[bmichaelhorn]

Since most of the posts/links/pix on the old blue interface are ass-over-teakettle, here is the net result of my run-good the very first time we put my Riversides in play, at Bergs' .25/.50 (yes, 25 cent, 50 cent!) circus table about a year ago. In the background, a typical modest river bet by Bergs in a SOHE hand.

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Say...aren't we due for another soon?

What's the count on that? Looks like a juicy game !

 

[gopherblue]

What's the count on that? Looks like a juicy game !

Updated the post to show stack size. It's not that the game is juicy, it just plays very deep after 12 hours and numerous rebuys. Initial buyin is only $100-125.