I'm surprised a search didn't turn up a thread (on this subforum) about this venue. I'll be in Paris in April and have always wondered what this venue is like, but 150 € seems awfully daunting for a membership I'll only use one week out of the year (and, strangely enough, I'd like to do something during my week in Paris besides go to a conference and play poker).

I did find a trip report from 2010. Has anyone played there since? Any suggestions?

AK,

So how was it? I will be going to Paris next month for work and wanted to play a night or two. My initial thought on hearing the 100€ entry fee was the same as yours, but I can get over that. how about some of the other aspects:

* Comments on the venue? Entry procedures? Sign-up/sign-in, things like that?
* What limits do they spread?
* They run a brush desk, electronic wait list tracking, etc?
* Any language barriers?
* Any interesting differences in game structure/sequence? (not sure what these would be .. just don't want to get to the table and see something and wonder wtf it is)

Eh, I didn't go, 150 EUR (it's gone up!) seemed a little crazy to only play for one day. I meant to at least walk by it but just got too busy with other stuff in Paris.

Would love to hear trip reports from anyone who's been, though.

It was a pretty cool experience, but it was free when I went.

I didn't have enough free time to get there.

I have been there.
It's upstairs, 1 flight up from ground level.
Very thick glass doors and you need to get buzzed in AND out.
It was held up a few years back by guys who couldn't shoot straight. When they ran out of the club to their getaway car, they had somehow locked themselves out and had to commandeer a refrigerated cube truck to make their getaway.


The club itself is finely detailed but it's much smaller than you would expect.
The largest part of the club may be the restaurant.

They have a low priced tourney a few days a week. I don't know the number of average starters, nor the structure.

English is spoken, French is preferred.
It would be helpful to learn how to say in French, my French is terrible, do you speak English. The 150E membership fee is too steep to overcome but look at it as an entertainment expense..

Players dress well. I never saw anyone dressed like the denizens of a Vegas or AC game.

For a less formal setting, try the Club Wigram. THAT looks like a Vegas or AC low level card room. Much bigger facility, lower class clientele. Filled with French degens.

How is the action there these days? Do they play plo/plo variations all the time? Rake nowadays?

The club was closed by the government earlier this year.

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/0...tion-20707.htm

Wow. Are there other good options in Paris for plo? I can see from the last post of Cercle Cadet that it is closed there too..?