Hideaway Social (new room in Cypress) is $12 / hr. They’re also running specials this weekend matching time purchase up to $500.

The city of Dallas has approved Shuffle 214's application. Now they just have to pass an inspection and they hope to open at the end of next week.

Anyone played at the Cypress Hideaway Social room yet ?

Word on the street is he was just charged with massive medical billing fraud.

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Is the Real Action Card Club still open in Euless? I thought I heard there was an issue with the city pushing back on them.

The city council ruled against Real Action Card Club back in mid-May. Real Action Card Club said they would appeal that decision. Google says they are temporarily closed, and the fact that I haven't received any texts since May 23rd tells me they are not open.

Word on the streets is that Champions' Dallas location will be on the East side of the tollway, just north of Trinity Mills. 17776 Dallas Pkwy. Looks like a fantastic location if true.

Any dealers here? I'm looking to move to Dallas here in the next few weeks.

Real Action Card Club in Euless confirmed on facebook that they have shutdown and are liquidating all their assets. They seem to think that Tarrant County (Ft Worth) isn't ready for legal poker.

Starting at 10am Saturday Shuffle 214 is not charging an hourly fee for the rest of this opening weekend. TCH Dallas is giving away $300 high hands every half hour AAAJJ or better. They will be giving away over $20k this weekend.

That is true... but it doesn't quite tell the entire story of how the hourly rake works compared to how the casino pot rake works. If you treat the entire poker player pool as one collective group then, yes, the hourly joints take less money from the poker players as a whole than the pot rake systems take.

However, from an individual poker player's perspective, you might pay more or less in rake in the hourly system or casino pot rake system depending on your session results, how many hands you play, and the amount of each pot of each hand you play. In other words, it is more complicated to figure out the comparison between hourly and pot rake for individual players. Have you considered the minimum amount of hands, and the pot amount of each of those hands, you would have to play at a pot rake table in order to equal or exceed the hourly rate you would play at the hourly joints?

If you are a player that always goes home broke then playing in the $6+$1 casino games is in your best interest. Otherwise, it probably isn't but it's something I'm really not too interested in delving into as I hope to never again waste 2 hrs round trip just to go play poker.

Also depends on the limit you play, the higher the more attractive the time charge.

Stacks get much deeper in time as opposed to rake as no money comes off the table so that is always going to be better for the better players.

That is only in the Texas games, most timed tables at legalized poker rooms it comes right out of the stacks at the bottom and top of each hour.

Outside of Texas I believe those are time raked games, but regardless I'm not sure you realize which thread you are posting in.

I am very aware of which thread I am posting in. I should have said games in traditional casinos where the time is paid from the stacks.

So you are referring to raked games when the post you replied to said "as opposed to rake."

BTW, there is already a thread for this sort of idiocy:

Pointless Idiotic Discussion Thread

That's not necessarily true. I've been at pot rake tables where the total amount of money on the table decreases over time and I've been at tables where it increases over time. Players re-buy quite often, especially if they are fresh in their session or see a bad beat.

If you want to make the argument that there are side benefits to the hourly rake system that makes it better than the pot rake system, I'm sure they are valid. However, it doesn't change the fact that the hourly system is worse for the better players and tighter players absent other factors.

But in the Texas system you know you're not taking $115 an hour off the table 9 handed, and the players will still rebuy. A raked pot system may take upwards of $200 an hour off the table if you get 30 hands in an hour.

TexasKK is living in a fairy tale. He thinks the only rake a player pays in a casino (relative to a Texas card room), is the rake in the pots he wins. He thinks that if a nit plays just one hand and stacks 3 fish, the nit only pays $6 in rake. The truth is, playing that hand in a raked casino game could have actually cost him upwards of $100 depending on the players he stacked.

Think of time rake at Texas clubs as a forced re-buy of $10 per hour for everyone at the table, in the form of credit that you only pay back at end the of your session (likely after you go busto). It almost always makes people buy in more than if you took rake, pot or otherwise, off the players’ stacks.

Where I play you have to pay the time fee ahead of time but it's not unusual for players to pay days/weeks ahead of time especially when the room is offering discount promos. Plus, you don't have to pay with cash at all. You can use a credit card.

52 Social has been blocked from opening in Dallas. Next up, preventing Champions from opening in Dallas.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/Cara4Dallas...41337452850615

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