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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay Poker
The action was pretty mixed. Felt like there were some people playing poker for the first time as well as a few grinders in headphones. Overall, the average customer was probably a 45 year old casual recreational player. Not many young guys in there at all and play was pretty tight and passive. I played for 4 hours and I think I saw one 3-bet. (granted, I was only playing 1-3). One guy tried to limp reraise his pocket Aces UTG and no one raised him. He got 9 callers.
Someone did the under the gun $6 straddle only twice over the whole four hours. The games were pretty quiet. No chatting or talking at all at my table. The dealer even kept commenting on it. Sort of felt like people were cautiously trying to feel each other out and did not know what to expect. I didn't see any horrible plays, nor anything impressive either. Overall, pretty middle of the road, I would say.
Finally got to check out Post Oak last night, and I liked it a lot. I'm quoting the above post just to say I jumped in a 1/3 game that couldn't have been the more polar opposite, it was interesting. Myself and one other player were pretty TAG, and the other 7 were the loosest, most aggressive players I have ever played with, it was pretty crazy. The standard preflop raise was $25 and 3 and 4 bets were very common, every other hand I'd average. Multiple all ins before the flop and c-betting with middle to low pair for $100+ was beyond common. If action was your thing that was the table to be at, it was an experience.
I used up my 4 timecards for 2 hours and ended the session down $400 thanks to being on the losing side of boat over boat and set over set twice for my stack, but what are you going to do.
The venue itself is pretty great and the bartender said they expect to have their liquor license in the next 3 or 4 weeks when the paperwork clears. The uniformed Harris County Sheriff outside even walked me to my car where we chatted a bit about how he plans to bring his wife next week to lose some of his hard earned cash. If I had to nitpick, I'd say the worst part of the place are the 8' home game style folding poker tables and the somewhat uncomfortable chairs, which were made more uncomfortable by being squeezed into the small table. 4/5