Hi, your best bet in San Jose would be the No Limit Club @ San Jose Palacio. They usually run at least 2-3 $1/2 tables per day, opening up at 2pm and sometimes they have 2 full tables by 5pm... sometimes. The No Limit Club is having their Christmas tournament this Sat 4th (starts at 7pm) and Sun 5th (day 2 starts at 4pm), $500 buy-in and $25.000 guarantee. I'm actually gonna go play the satellite tonight at 7pm ($50+3) for the christams tourney.
Another option you can look into is the Radisson Hotel Europa, though movement is a bit slower there.
And just last week another poker room opened at the Irazu Hotel, The Winner's Club. Haven't really gone there yet.
I do have a website (
www.pokertico.cr) which I try to keep as updated as possible but the last 22 days have been hectic, Palma Real and Hold'em Club closed and these 3 rooms opened their doors. However, don't worry they are not "new" per se... it's just that the people running the Hold'em had a fight and they split and opened two rooms
By the way... Clarion and Amon have been closed for years.