Playground Poker Club
Currently in Montreal playing poker at the playground poker club. Quick rundown.
Pros - dealers are quick and game is run smoothly
- waitresses are very hot and revealingly dressed
- have not really had to wait to get a seat at a table
- tournaments run on time
- food is excellent
- wide range of games from 1/2 nl to 10/25
- PLO up to 5 5
- dealers are all fluent in english and french
Undecided - While the waitress's are hot I have had issues with them forgetting to bring drinks etc. Possibly the $1 tip isn't enough for them to remember.
A lot of donks there, however be prepared for the suckouts that occur.
Cons - Cards mark easy and are one way.... i.e. they have the name playground poker club and if one gets turned around you could possibly know which one (not sure if I'm explaining right) but I need sleep.
- not easy to find for the first time, but once you've been there it's fine.
- some of the players throw temper tantrums when their ace's get cracked, cursing swearing gets tolerated up to a point before they tell you to calm down.
Forgot to add rake:
No flop no drop. If flop $1 to Bad beat. 10% to rake to max $8. (that was at 1/2
Time to grab some sleep I will post more later.
Pros - dealers are quick and game is run smoothly
- waitresses are very hot and revealingly dressed
- have not really had to wait to get a seat at a table
- tournaments run on time
- food is excellent
- wide range of games from 1/2 nl to 10/25
- PLO up to 5 5
- dealers are all fluent in english and french
Undecided - While the waitress's are hot I have had issues with them forgetting to bring drinks etc. Possibly the $1 tip isn't enough for them to remember.
A lot of donks there, however be prepared for the suckouts that occur.
Cons - Cards mark easy and are one way.... i.e. they have the name playground poker club and if one gets turned around you could possibly know which one (not sure if I'm explaining right) but I need sleep.
- not easy to find for the first time, but once you've been there it's fine.
- some of the players throw temper tantrums when their ace's get cracked, cursing swearing gets tolerated up to a point before they tell you to calm down.
Forgot to add rake:
No flop no drop. If flop $1 to Bad beat. 10% to rake to max $8. (that was at 1/2
Time to grab some sleep I will post more later.
Comments
25/50
50/100
100/200
150/300
200/400
300/600
400/800 A100
500/1K A100
600/1.2 A100
800/1.6 A 200
1K/2K A 200
I think you get the picture.
65 played at $300 each 17 548 payout 19500 taken in.
Payouts $6 700
2nd 3 999
3rd 2 450
4th 1 600
5th 1 200
6th 899
7th 700
Would love to hear some stories of interest when you get a chance.
That 8+1 rake must really cut into your win rate.
I guess it adds up to about $45,000 a year in rake if you play regularly?
Is it worth it compared to say, $4+1 rake at Seneca? Or 5+1 rake at Niagara?
So how much time did they give you?
It wasn't me. However I was the one who caused him to curse and swear when he made it $20 UTG got 4 callers and I called from the BB with K2 of hearts. Flop was 6 2 2. His AA got cracked.
Some facts:
It's open 24/7 now and there are tables running around the clock.
There are at least 2 tournaments every day, one at noon (used to be MWF, now every day) and one or more at 7:30.
It's in BravoLive (the iPhone app) so you can see what's happening in terms of cash tables any time.
Tournaments are very well run overall. By popular demand there are almost no rebuy tourneys any more (freeze outs FTW). Except for some satellites there is no re-entry or purchase of dead stacks. The tournament desk runs some good promotions though generally oriented towards the frequent player. Most notable is a $10K freeroll each month for the top 40 on the tournament leader board.
Seems like they are raping the cash players and giving the tourney players freerolls. Sounds like it might be a good place to play tournies and avoid cash games.
Pretty big names endorsing it. We'll see I guess. Competition is always good for the players.
There's a chance Four Aces will open again as well - there are very credible rumours floating about. I don't want to speed rumours like that on a public forum (they may not be true after all) but stay tuned.
On any weekday night in Montreal we already have (in total) about 30+ cash tables running plus another 25 tournament tables with more on weekends, and it's not 100% clear that the player pool can expand quickly enough to meet the additional capacity that is slated to be added - Stardust will have 16 tables total and Four Aces has 15 (or so).
fixed variables ftw
Two words. Mohawk Standoff
Aka OKA.
No, they are licensed by the KGC, and considered as part of a soviern territory. There is a Montreal reporter that is constantly stirring the pot on this issue.
Is it worth a massive political mess, possibly bloodshed to enforce the issue?
The government doesn't test any of this in law because the best legal opinion is that they'd lose (I studied all of this stuff pretty extensively back in my studying days).
Anyhow these are legally licensed live poker rooms under the authority of the Kahnawake Gaming Commission and I can tell you from personal observation that the KGC takes their regulatory authority very seriously as do the rooms. It's a very tight ship as far as I can tell.