+1 obv

Anyone want to add stuff to a FAQ-ish Excel sheet about Oaks games? (Eventually I hope to expand this to the whole SF Bay Area)

DWx = drop with flop / 4th street / 1st draw
DWox = drop without flop / 4th street / 1st draw
sb = small blind
minBI = minimum buy-in

No idea what this forum is about, but Oaks tilts me because of its maddening "spread limit" rule. It's just so pointless and irritating.

umm... I believe the lowball game is california lowball. A-5 with a joker. Single draw. self dealt. three blinds: button, small, and big. As for the stake, iono what they usually play, but it's always a black chip game. I've see 80 lowball on the board and i was told that number means all the blinds add up to 80. I assume that means the blinds are 20/20/40.

I didn't know about the no check-raise rule, but afiak california lowball is the only poker game where check-raise is not allowed.

Not 100% sure. I've never played it.

It's definitely player-dealt, single-limit, single draw A-5 with a joker. I've spent many hours in the 20-limit game, while it still had traction. Three blinds (button, middle, big) adding up to the fixed bet size; same bet size before and after the draw (unlike SoCal lowball, which has just small and big blind, and a double-size bet after the draw).

Many of the big 30-60 hold'em fish are also 80-limit and 120-limit lowball fish, and there are a few pros who follow them. I'm pretty much an ABC lowball player, good enough to beat the elderly gentlemen who played in the 20, but I've not put the effort into getting good enough to play in the game that currently goes down on Saturdays.

I've tried to get the Oaks management to spread triple-draw, but they have been profoundly resistant.

Self-dealt? I didn't think that was legal any more. Is there a drop? Do you guys tip each other?

time charge. A chiprunner goes to the lowball table every half-hour to collect. iono how much... $7 maybe? Alan should know.

Apparently my sister lives 2 miles away from the Oaks. I may come down and visit/play.

Guve us some advance warning should rhis come to pass, please.

I predict that 2012 will be the year of 2-7 TD. Maybe 8-16, and a 20-40 for the big boys? Next summer Alan, we can get Callipygian to get games started with us.

EDIT:
I ALSO predict that before 2012 gobbo runs hotter than the sun in the Oaks 30/60.

Anyone know which corner of the Oaks is best to get the blue meth?

Behind the counter at Black & White Liquor, ainec.

(Used to be at the tiles).

+1

We'd have to check whether the Oaks is allowed to spread TD.

In the past, I've inquired about whether the Oaks would spread a mixed game, and they said they weren't legally allowed to. I pointed out that they're authorized to run LHE, O8, and Stud, so why not Limit HOS, and the response was that Emeryville was nitty about only allowing very, very specific games. Mixed games needed its own authorization (which includes some kind of application and petition and licensing fee) and my assumption is that TD would face the same resistance.

Incidentally, I'm almost positive I've seen multiple draws before at the lowball table (and hence, assumed it was TD). Am I just totally nuts?

Ha!

Just checking in, the Oaks is going to be my home base for the next few months, I'm a spread limit donk.