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Originally Posted by joshuasp75
Very interested in this thread and GL to the OP - stay out of the PITS! That was one of my biggest leaks in Vegas, I went on a bad run at poker and then compounded it in roulette mainly. Very hard to overcome a downswing in both games!
I look forward to reading about your experiences in each room. I am very curious to hear your pros and cons about each room as well. PM me if you like so as not to derail, but I read where you said you lived down in S. FL and I was wondering the details. Did you play for a living? How long ago and how long did you live there? What was the best/worst room and why?
I will be in S. FL myself soon for vacation and there are a lot of smaller card rooms down there I didn't even know about! I was wondering how a decent player would fare in each of them playing 2/5 and maybe some 5/10 as you are doing. Are any of the smaller ones worth visiting? I had been planning on playing at mostly HR Hollywood or the Isle one as I read those were the best (also the biggest, but sometimes the small rooms are softer).
When I first moved to 2009-2011 Florida I did so to work and enjoy life. Slowly as I grew tired with the work routine, kept running good at the poker tables, and managed to get my finances under control, I quit work and solely played poker as a means of income. In 2011, I decided to get back in school. I lived in Fort Lauderdale. Hence why I was headed down in this thread. I have some friends I like visiting and know the layout of the land really well. It's funny traveling back to these card rooms and how many of the old faces are still there today.
As far as the best and worst rooms it comes down to a few factors with me. 1) player composition. No matter how bad a room is if they're players suck then I'm willing to drive there.
2) dealer speed and floor ruling accuracy. Nothing worse than having a horrible dealer not controlling the action and then a bad floor person to compound the errors of the dealers with bad rulings.
3) diversity of games being spread. I prefer bigger games. I feel like most card rooms have varying levels of play at each buyin limit, but I don't feel like my edge at 1-2nl is significantly higher than at 2-5 nl. Each table composition is different and depending on who is up, who is stuck, if someone has been playing too long, etc, the table may be profitable or not so much. It's all about finding the right table and if there are more games being spread then it helps in finding profitable ones.
Isle is the nicest aesthetically. The dealers are on point and so are the floor. They run a ton of great promo's. The only complaint I have is that they're 2-5nl buyin is 200-500 and I prefer it be deeper. No big deal tho most rooms have a 2-5 nl with similar buyin limit if not the same.
As far as the smaller card rooms in south florida I'm not too familiar.
I'm going to be posting Day 2 of the trip later today. Lmk if there are any other aspects you'd like for me to comment on.