OK so I have some funny stories to share about Horseshoe Casino in Cleveland, Ohio's first casino. It opened last night, was way too packed for me to even THINK about going in. I got there at 10 AM this morning and no line at all.
Staff was all nice but very, very inexperienced.
The floor guy told me the minimum buy-in was 10% of the small blind, I thought I misheard so I asked again, he was like ya 10% of the small blind. That made my day right there
dealers were hella slow, one time my BB got mucked when some guys called with a red chip and I tried to check. NOPE MY CARDS GONE. I was like "wtf" to the dealer but let it go because it wasn't too big a deal.
For the actual poker, play was horrendous, like wow so bad. My first cue to this was witnessing a hand where some guy bet trips on the turn, some other guy folded, and he was like I had to bet, I had about 16 outs to the full house. LOL. Every hand that I wasn't involved in (i.e., all of them because I was so card dead) played like a limit hand.
Guy bets $5 on flop, 3 callers.
Bets $10 on turn, 3 callers.
Bets $10 on river, all fold. I rofl (in my head of course!)
Lost a decent pot when I tried to 3bet bluff a guy with A2s who had been opening a bunch of pots to $7, I made it $25 and he called and led out for 1/4 pot on 6
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so I raised flop, he called and it got checked down. He shows KK, sigh.
Also this guy to my right could barely move (I pushed in his cards/chips whenever he bet/folded) and he never tipped, I saw some other guy at the table tip after he won a pot so I started doing it too. I am a life nit so I won't make a habit of that though of course.
One funny thing about my specific card table, table 19 for anyone who plays there, is that the air conditioning blows seat 7's card off the table like 1/10 times the dealer deals it (happening over the span of 4 dealers).
I'm sad they had no higher stakes than 1/2 running when I was there. There were 6 people on the waitlist for 10/25 when I started driving and I really was in the mood to take a shot at that.
Nothing in the casino enticed me food-wise, so I walked out at noon. There was a line wrapped around the block. OOOOOOOPS. Guess I'm not getting back inside.
Cleveland total: -$96 in 2 hours.