Poker on Cruise Ships
Looking at taking a cruise with the family in December. Does anyone know what cruise lines, and more specifically ships, offer NLH. Cash games would be preferred. There have been posts about the high rake on ships but nothing regarding which cruise lines actually offer poker in their casinos.
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IIRC there's a licensing issue about the games they can offer. Which is why there was no NLHE.
http://www.thepokerchronicles.com/archives/2007_07.html
Supposedly it has 5/10 but the rake is 10% Max... $15.
That's a huge rake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The rake will be taking off approximately $1000/100 hands.off the table.
I wonder if it's possible to organize a private game in the boardroom or the games room.
Poker Cruise
The following appears to be standard on all of these cruises.
Poker Room
Card Player Cruises proudly features a professional, fully staffed, non-smoking pokerroom. The poker room is usually open for play immediately after the first-seating dinneron your departure day. The poker room remains open throughout most of the cruiseexcept when the ship is in port.
Free beginner lessons for novices are taught by Linda Johnson,followed by a $1-$2 limit hold'em game.
The Card Player Cruises staff will be happy to spread any game and limit that enoughplayers want to play.
A general guideline regarding the games and limits on most cruises is as follows:Texas hold'em: $1-$2, $2-$4, $4-$8, $10-$20, $20-$40Omaha/8: $4-$8, $10-$20, occasionally higherMixed games: $20-$40, occasionally higherNo-limit hold'em at blinds of $1-$2 and $2-$5 with capped buy-ins
Each cruise has one or more tournaments. These events have proven to be one of themost popular aspects of the cruise. All tournaments begin promptly as scheduled.Tournaments generally include a limit hold'em freezeout, no limit hold'em, and anOmaha high-low freezeout. Anticipate buy-ins of $100-$230.
All poker games are open to anyone 18 years and older.
For Jah in December: http://www.cardplayercruises.com/brochures/pdf/MexRiv07Brochure.pdf
http://www.worldpokershowdown.com/
I played on the Carnival Triumph.
First night 2/5 Limit after that it was 5/10 limit.
Only one table from about 6 PM to about 3 am or so, same players most days.
Mainly it was a drinking game with some cards.
http://www.classicpokercruises.com/info.htm
btw, I also stopped off at Turning Stone on the way to NY. Talk about a dead casino (although it was Sunday night). I go downstairs to put my name on the waiting list and there is actually only three tables running, with only one $1/$2 table. For such a huge poker room, it was quite disappointing.
really, I figured it was a decent rake considering that it is 10% like no limit with a $5 maximum; I read somewhere about $15 rakes on cruise ships. If you want to go to Seneca over the holidays, let me know. I may play in the January tournaments as well.