Costa Rica
03-03-2008
, 03:17 PM
03-03-2008
, 05:46 PM
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To update the thread:
I just spent the past few days in San Jose, while waiting for a friend of mine to come later this afternoon so we could head off to the rest of the country. Hung out in the city during the day, played poker at night.
The place to play in San Jose now is the Casino Corobici, located at what used to be called the Hotel Corobici, but is now called the Crowne Plaza Hotel. If you tell the cab drivers Hotel Corobici they'll know where to go, and it is about a 3 dollar cab ride from the downtown area.
They spread only 1-2 NL, min buyin 100, max 500. Had two tables going the 3 nights I was there, condensed to 1 table around 2 am, place closed 4am during week, 5am on weekends. For most of the night there were a couple locals who had some idea what was going on, a steady stream of locals who would continuously buy in short-stacked and had no idea what was going on, and a few americans (generally living in CR), most of whom were terrible.
Overall the room was well-run, and a friendly atmosphere.
For anyone who wants to play bigger, I asked about other rooms in town and the only other place I heard mentioned was some room called the "White House" that is up on the top of one of the mountains nearby. Apparently a bunch of locals play there in a 5-10 PLO game. and they occasionally spread other bigger games/tourneys as well. I would be cautious about going to this game though, it is apparently a bit off the beaten path, and a few of the (good player) locals expresssed reservations about the safety in bringing money to/from the game.
For me, action was great at the 1/2 game, [start hidden small sample size brag] up ~1000 over 3 sessions[/end brag].
I just spent the past few days in San Jose, while waiting for a friend of mine to come later this afternoon so we could head off to the rest of the country. Hung out in the city during the day, played poker at night.
The place to play in San Jose now is the Casino Corobici, located at what used to be called the Hotel Corobici, but is now called the Crowne Plaza Hotel. If you tell the cab drivers Hotel Corobici they'll know where to go, and it is about a 3 dollar cab ride from the downtown area.
They spread only 1-2 NL, min buyin 100, max 500. Had two tables going the 3 nights I was there, condensed to 1 table around 2 am, place closed 4am during week, 5am on weekends. For most of the night there were a couple locals who had some idea what was going on, a steady stream of locals who would continuously buy in short-stacked and had no idea what was going on, and a few americans (generally living in CR), most of whom were terrible.
Overall the room was well-run, and a friendly atmosphere.
For anyone who wants to play bigger, I asked about other rooms in town and the only other place I heard mentioned was some room called the "White House" that is up on the top of one of the mountains nearby. Apparently a bunch of locals play there in a 5-10 PLO game. and they occasionally spread other bigger games/tourneys as well. I would be cautious about going to this game though, it is apparently a bit off the beaten path, and a few of the (good player) locals expresssed reservations about the safety in bringing money to/from the game.
For me, action was great at the 1/2 game, [start hidden small sample size brag] up ~1000 over 3 sessions[/end brag].
