The best-kept secret in the Canadian capital of Ottawa as its only legal poker room with rake <=
$5!
4837 Albion Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1X 1A3.
Phone: 1-877-870-7586 or (613) 822-8668.
Poker room opened in November 2012, but even 2+2 members in the area had no idea they could play poker in RCR!
Rake: 10% up to $5, NLHE.
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Reduced rake from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and $1/$2 Limit Hold’Em feature game on Sundays."
No Bad Beat Jackpot.
This huge OLG Slots location has over 1,200 slot machines and a 600-seat restaurant,
but has failed to properly promote its electronic poker, so it currently only has two PokerTek tables. Another OLG Slots location at
Woodbine Racetrack has eleven PokerTek tables and is very busy every night.
Since there will be a lot of poker players driving near the area for the WSOP/WPT/CPT/FTP big events between September to December 2013, here are a few ideas:
1) Go to this poker room for its <= $5 rake before or after the tournament at Casino du Lac-Leamy, Playground Poker Club or VIP Poker Room. Lac-Leamy rakes up to $11 and both Playground and VIP rakes up to $15!
2) RCR has a
rake of as low as 4% for its on-demand one-table SNGs or MTTs, so we can have a makeshift satellite for a Main Event that has lower fees than the ones being run by the WSOP/WPT/CPT rooms! If we can get at least six players, we can run an SNG satellite where first place gets enough money to buy into a WSOP/WPT/CPT event. For example, if ten of us agree to play a $220+$10 SNG with only 4.3% rake, then first place can get up $1,320 (enough to buy into FTP & almost the CPT/WSOP ME) and second place can get up to $880 (or we can agree to modify the payouts from 60/40 to 50/30/20). For another example, if ten of us agree to play a $540+$20 SNG with
only 3.6% rake, then first place can get up to $3,240 (almost enough for WPT ME) and second place can get up to $2,160.
3) Have a 2+2 Meetup in its
600-seat restaurant, e.g., $3.99 breakfast or $19.99 for an "all-you-can-eat buffet featuring over 100 fine food items."
Last edited by Nash_equilibria; 09-03-2013 at 07:12 PM.