Anybody have any intel on the 1/2 plo game? Buyin is 100-1000 so does it play really deep? Any intel is appreciated.

Played the PLO game back in November. Plays very deep. 1-2 5 to go, straddle from anywhere, run it twice no matter how many in the hand. There were so many donkey's just blasting off every pot it was quite a scene. Every other hand was a 3 way all-in with side pots and run twice. Consequently it takes FOREVER to play a hand like that. It was 50/50 English-Spanish at the table but was never an issue for me. I started at a must move, a drooler ran his stack up to over 3k, got moved to the main game. When I got to the main game maybe 25 minutes later, he had 300 in front of him.

If you have the roll and the time to ride out the variance, It's a great game.

SWIM told me that several dealers at hialeah park poker room "take" money from the pots. SWIM wants to believe this is only honest mistake that good dealers of hialeah park are making.
SWIM thinks there are easy solutions for this widespread issue i.e. asking dealers to quit making change if it's not needed. also having the bank stay with tables not dealers.

are you saying that in some parts of the united states i cant expect english only to be enforced? I actually find that very shocking/surprising. So if the patrons are bilingual why would it be difficult to expect them to speak english during hte hand. It isn't as if they can't. Are the dealers required to be bilingual english/spanish? If the dealer can not understnad what they are saying during the hand, how can the dealer enforce the rules/run the game?

Here is my experience at Hialeah January 2016. BTW, the 1/2/5 PLO game was great!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1390

You should understand that in the Miami area spanish is the primary language. When I got to the casino, all the staff and most of the patrons were speaking spanish. At the table itself, english was used to run the game, but with the players it was 50/50 split most of the time. Not every spanish speaker spoke fluent english and vice versa. I did not think it affected the integrity of the game in any way however.

Just want until the dealers start speaking Spanish to players in a hand with you... This place is a joke, but my God, everyone is just awful.

Two days ago my credit card was used to get gas back to back days....by someone other than me. Guess where both gas stations were? Hialeah, which is a good 45 min drive from my house. I havent been there in about a year.

The city is a ****hole and its loaded with ****heads.

Table jumping/switching and filling Is a problem at Hialeah because the supervisors/floor do not control/manage it. Frequently when playing at a table of 7 or 8, a player will move to a table of 8 w/out seeking floor approval. Half the time when someone complains to the floor about such a move, the floor does nothing about it, merely telling the complainer that the next player seeking a seat will be sent to the table. Again about half the time they are not.

Filling empty seats is also a problem. Frequently the desk will send a new player to a short handed table but the player will check out the tables and go to whichever he/she likes with an empty seat, even though the tables he/she has chosen has fewer empty seats than the one to which he was sent by the desk. Again, when someone at a table of 6 or 7 complains to the floor about a new player taking a seat at a table with fewer empty seats, about half the floor does nothing about it, merely telling the complainer that the next player seeking a seat will be sent to the table. Again about half the time they are not.

The above described activities seems most often to be the actions of the regulars at the room who appear to think they are entitled. Management and the floor need to take control and stop this behavior. It's bad for the game and the room's reputation.

Are the poker tables still playing 7 handed w/plexiglass dividers?

Hialeah casino is the biggest scam and joke when it comes to poker rooms. Not only does the staff know and let the regulars cheat and cut corners, but they turn blind eye and let them run the poker room as they see fit

Proof or even examples?

A first time poster with no proof, examples or evidence ? Imagine that.

What are he chances this first time poster has an existing account under another name, mods ???

Oftentimes casinos in places like this have specific rules regarding what languages may be used at the table. ie in Korea or China it's usually Korean and English, or Mandarin, Cantonese, or English.

So I'd say it's a simple question to find out this places rules on language, then ask they be enforced.

Simple. End of story.

Years ago when I tracked $s off the table per down in 1/2 NLHE games for 55 downs I found the following averages :
Hands Dealt:18
Rake:$52
HHJ:$28
Dealer Tips:$19
Total $s off the table: $99/down, $198/hr

At the time I did the tracking most rooms had 9 players per table. Now the tables seat 8, an 11% reduction. The reduction in the number of players means that the number of hands per down should increase, as should the rake and HHJ drops, and the dealers tips.

If each increased by 11%, the new figures would be as follows:
Hands Dealt;$20
Rake:$58
HHJ:$31
Dealer Tips:$21
Total $s off the table: $110/down, $220/hr.

When Hia is running HHJ promotion of $500/15 and 1K/20 (as they have been doing with some frequency in recent months) the HHJ drop maximum is $4/hand instead of $2. If the reduction in the number of players didn’t result in a corresponding increase in the number of hands per down and in the rake drop and tips to the dealers, the HHJ drop on these HHJ special days should still double to $56 per down. The total $s off the tables would be $127/down and $254/hr. If the number of hands dealt, the rake and HHJ drop, and dealers’ tips increased 11%, the total $s off the table would be $141/down and $282/hr.

If the 8 players pay an equal share of the $s off the table, each is paying $35.25/hr. Of course the figures goes up if the table is playing short handed (because of inability to fill a table or because of players absent from the table, as is often the case at Hia). I wonder how many players realize how many Ss are coming off the table per hour. I suspect not many.

Sure is a lot of $s off the table. Also explains why 1/2 NLHE is hard to beat.

However, I've found (in my small sample size) that the 1/2 NL game at Hialeah is quite a bit softer than say Hard Rock and Isle Pompano.