I have not played live for ages and i heard that they added more tables at star city

what limits do they have now?
are the games still only 40BB max buy in?

rake to high to bother going?

any thoughts about games there appreciated (:

thanks in advance

they have the:
- 1/2 - 80-100 buy in, so you're still buying 50bb max, pretty annoying imo. but this is mostly what I play. Massive range of players, usually not a very tough game, although I've noticed that the skill level has improved a f over the last 12months

- 5/5 200 fixed buy in, as well as the 200-500 buy in. 200-500 is pretty tough, although the 200 game is pretty much the same as 80 minus the absolute novices.

I'm not sure about the higher buy ins.

the rake is pretty terrible at the low limits - on the 1/2, it's 10% capped at $8 plus the $5 per hour table fee. I think the rake for the 5/5 games are also 10% i think it's capped at $10, with a table fee of $1 per hand

hope that helps

its terrible, boycott imo. play at crown. it really ****s me off when all
the name players say how great poker is in sydney, like the room is that clean
when Moneymaker/Hachem arent there.

yeah thats the same as when i played there =/

someone told me they had a $200 1/2 game so 100BB deep i got excited


they added extra tables and new front desk so looks bit prettier but yeah still not setup i guess

friend went to QLD and their 2/5 500nl game has a roped off room looks really nice

5/5 games are 10% capped at $10 with a $5 time charge for the 200 and $10 time charge for the 2-5. No table fee of $1 per hand anymore.

whats the atmosphere like there?

just a bunch of grumpy old greek degenerate manilla playing muppets?

pretty much. on friday/saturday night all the 25 year old greek "pros" w/ their jewelry and glasses come out to play

Crown has an entire floor. Crown pwns every other live poker room in Australia imo

I've only played the 200-500 game a handful of times but calling it "pretty tough" is hilarious. Last time I played, the table literally did not go half an orbit (in a three hour session) without at least one person having to rebuy. In my experience it's very similar in skill level to the 1/2 games.

+1

fair enough I have only played it a couple of times and the average skill of the players was higher than that of the 80 and 200. In my experience though there is such a wide mix of players throughout all the limits, I have played on 80 tables full of thinking players of reasonable skill level. similarly I have played 200 which was very soft.

I have played at crown a couple of times, and I agree - it has a better layout, game structures than star city. Admittedly, the game structures at SC is one of the reasons I don't play much anymore... that said, I still have fun when I go

The structure is really annoying at Star City.

They should remove the 5-5 $200 max, and instead, increase the $1/2 to a $100-200 buy in while still having a $200-500. Lets be honest, who wants to play for 40BB?

The monumental rake and time charge combination is always a massive problem though.

But then the bigstacks can bully the shortstacks!

haha.

But if they make it a 100BB buy in game it would make the game beatable rake/time charge wise

They shouldnt care if the game is beatable. If they increased the buyin it wouldnt
hurt them in terms of rake, and it would bring out a lot more players around
sydney who dont want to play there because its a joke. More players = more money in rake.

Star city poker doesnt give a **** about their players, and until they change their attitude I'm not going back.

THIS

thats why i havent played there in almost a year
its not just the rake thats irritating
-was the 4 hour queues
-40BB game woooo -.-
-time charge + rake
-some muppet dealers and stupid rules being enforced like no headphones & people might disagree with me but when they stop action to argue about stupid stupid things like string betting when its clearly not intentional and its only a 5BB pot

-having to catch cab there and cab back + food & drinks + rake
to much for me
im only rolled for 200nl so not worth going for 40BB game =/

omg star city why do you have to suck soooooooo bad