That F@cking Place… (1 Viewer)

[bergs]

Do any of you have a particular venue you play at and no matter what you do you can’t book a win?

I have two casinos near me - they both play mixed games (6/12 at the 1st property and 6/12 + 8/16 at the 2nd property.

I crush the second casino with the 6/12 and 8/16 games. Lifetime I’m up several thousand there.

At the other property (probably 60% the same players in both properties) I’ve had streaks of 20+ sessions without a single win marked by just brutalizing runouts. I’m down so much at lower limit poker that I’m going to post the figure. It’s just pathetic.

The games and the people at the 1st property are great. I just feel like I can’t go back there because I feel like Buckner walking back into Shea Stadium. I’ve tried taking multi-month long breaks and playing different games. I’m like 5-60 in sessions there. At the other property I’ve got 12 straight winning sessions and I’m probably something like 25-5 there.

I don’t think I play fundamentally different at the two properties - at least not consciously tho at this point I’m probably inside my own head and not relaxing and playing optimally at the 1st property.

Another weird ancillary thing with this is that when I play at the 1st property it’s prolly great advertising for the 2nd property.

Anyway, shits fucked up, yo. Post here if you’ve got something similar or just think this whole thing is idiotic.

 

[Mojo1312]

I can relate. I booked multiple straight losses at the Playground in Montreal. I have concluded that the dealers and the delightfully well formed french waitresses that work there are to blame. I am convinced the former was stacking the deck against me while I was distracted by the latter. It is a genius set-up when you think about it. I lost 4 grand over three days playing $5/$10 Big-O.

According to the math I did on the back of my napkin in the hotel room, (after accounting for variance), that is a sheer impossibility. There is no way I am that unlucky or bad at poker.

As proof, I win 80 to 85% of my sessions playing $1/$2 NLHE and my win rate is around the same for PLO, so obviously, something is afoul.

Granted, I never before played $5/$10, nor a single hand of Big-O. Should we then brush off my poor performance to inexperience or coincidence? I hardly think so. What it does proof, at least to me, is that anyone who speaks french that far north is up to no good and cannot be trusted.

I am likely going to take your approach by giving myself a multi-month break before going back. The table service was great.

 

[krafticus]

MD Live for me. I sit with the worst players, and they just get stupid lucky against me. Some of the loses were just absurd too. Everyone else seems to book huge wins.

 

[Thomacetti]

Yeah...I run horrible in Denver (and in circus games in general)

 

[Tight_Lay_DOWN]

Yes - it was probably me - but it was the only place and only times I have played cash with 10 players - all tables 10 handed. I blame myself for not adjusting to 10 handed (but I don't know why, I played 6 max - 7 - 8 and 9 handed successfully), always ended up having second Nuts vs the actual Nuts. In all my years, it has been the only place I stayed away from - to this day. Although they recently converted to 8 handed tables -still - I will never go back even though it is the 2nd closest cardroom to me.

 

[JMC9389]

Not a place in itself, but with a specific set of circumstances. In probably 10 tournaments I've played in, ranging from 8 to 16 players, I've cashed exactly once when @Irish 's PNY's are in play. It's a given that I rebuy, and I run so badly overall, it's uncanny.

Things like flopping four to a flush and turn and river brick out. Flush over flush showdowns. Last time a few months ago I had JQ suited. Flop J 10 9 with two of my suit. I bet, one caller. Turn 8, not of my suit, but a straight! Woo hoo! I check, tight player that called my flop bet bets, I shove, he snap calls, and I exclaim "If you have KQ, I'm walking out of here". Sure enough, that's what he has, and the river bricks and I hold true to my word and get up and leave after wishing everyone a good night.

@Irish 's place has been a house of horrors for me in 2024 overall. Just ridiculously nasty run outs and beats. I've come out a winner in maybe 3 sessions out of 12 or so this year which is below my usual average. Here's to 2025, I guess!

 

[Schmendr1ck]

Not sure if this counts, but I stopped playing 1/2 at my closest cardroom maybe three years ago when they increased the rake.

1/2NL is 200 max, raked 6+2, and many players buy in short, usually $100 at a time. The last couple times I went, players were mediocre - not good but not terrible. I think all of this makes the game unbeatable, and I just quit going.

Hard Rock Tampa is much better. 1/2 is 300 max with a 5+2 rake, and the players are AWFUL. Unfortunately it's also a 90 minute drive so I don't get over that way as often as I'd like.

 

[allforcharity]

I am constantly getting rivered at one of the home games I play at. It's almost become a bad joke. The losses I can afford, but they are not what I'd call insubstantial. Friends and food are great, though.

 

[doublebooyah85]

Not sure if this counts, but I stopped playing 1/2 at my closest cardroom maybe three years ago when they increased the rake.

1/2NL is 200 max, raked 6+2, and many players buy in short, usually $100 at a time. The last couple times I went, players were mediocre - not good but not terrible. I think all of this makes the game unbeatable, and I just quit going.

Hard Rock Tampa is much better. 1/2 is 3000 max with a 5+2 rake, and the players are AWFUL. Unfortunately it's also a 90 minute drive so I don't get over that way as often as I'd like.

$1-$2 $200 max $8 rake I’m not sure anyone can win lol

 

[allforcharity]

$1-$2 $200 max $8 rake I’m not sure anyone can win lol

The house wins!

 

[Irish]

Not a place in itself, but with a specific set of circumstances. In probably 10 tournaments I've played in, ranging from 8 to 16 players, I've cashed exactly once when @Irish 's PNY's are in play. It's a given that I rebuy, and I run so badly overall, it's uncanny.

And I was just thinking, what set I should put I to play next month....

 

[JMC9389]

And I was just thinking, what set I should put I to play next month....

Just give me a courtesy heads up. I'll ask for an advance on my next paycheck to cover things.

 

[Highli99]

My own house. Can’t win there!!

 

[horseshoez]

I am constantly getting rivered at one of the home games I play at. It's almost become a bad joke. The losses I can afford, but they are not what I'd call insubstantial. Friends and food are great, though.

This made my day because it’s the same story for me in our club’s tournaments. We've been running these for five years now. The first three years, I was a total machine—won the club’s first trophy and consistently finished in the top 5. But these last couple of years? I couldn't dodge a suckout if I slipped the dealer a hundred under the table. It’s ridiculous.

 

[buzzmonkey]

My own house. Can’t win there!!

That was true for me for a long time too. But I've become a profit player here finally.