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Originally Posted by denks
My "favourite" rule is the one where if you mistake the bet amount you are held to the full amount even if it is a massive misunderstanding. E.g. EP leads out for $10, someone in MP that you cannot see nor hear (and being Star city there is no enforcement of keeping your card visible nor large denominations on top) mumbles something, you call $10 then dealer jumps up "ahaaa, the bet is $300 and you have to call!" because apparently MP has hidden cards somewhere and a couple of blacks hidden under his stack and went all in.
They brought that crazy rule in just before I moved away some time in early 2012 and they claimed it was more a result of becoming fed up with smashed players on Fri/Sat evenings who were not paying attention to the action, my feeling though as well as alot of the other regulars was that it was more just a method to try and get more money into the rake, you gotta figure if it happens even 5 times a day there's a max rate 12$ rake they may not have otherwise gotten for that hand.
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Originally Posted by minibiff
Haha wow, the players at 1/2$ are really bad. Two guys went aipf with 22 and 55, both over 100bb+.
Another one got 3betted and struggled for like 5minutes before calling and flipping over KQo?
Have only been there 3 times but woow. What days is the best to go there? I was there friday, sick value but ran bad (-100$). I was there saturday, ok value but ran break even. And then I was there on Tuesday, ran hot and won 700$ in 1hour value was okey.
Is fridays best?
In 2 years of playing there the one thing I learned is that most of the players don't care about money, you have to be pretty well off to live in Sydney, at least within a reasonable distance of the casino to be there frequently, as a result most of the regulars who are bad players have quite a bit of cash to toss around. As a matter of fact, there were at least 2-3 regulars who would be regularly banned for 3-4 months at a time but never permanently banned because they lost so much gosh darn money in the place, not just in poker but they were generally good for losing a few K in baccarat each day...I'll never forget this one clown who is a part of the furniture in the 10-20 game going downstairs to pick up food for the rest of the table, coming back and saying he dropped 4K in baccarat as he waited for the order.
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Originally Posted by revolio
...and they need to move to a sit-down charge and abandon their ridiculous hourly charge like Crown did a while back.
However.........
It will happen as soon as and if the other Sydney casino opens...or they could both just collude together to continue to eat the poker players alive.