that pretty much sums up the montreal casino experience

lol spoke too soon back to gay shortstackness(200min-1kmax), seein people buyin 200 at the 5/5 makes me wanna puke, makes me puke even more that I can't stack 2k deep fish.

aren't unions fun? new dealers generally arrive around 5pm on weekdays so they seem to add tables around that time each day.

lol you see the 40 soon to be 20 buck shortstackers at 1 2 lol that reload 10 times - "im a shortstack" better go all in every hand

Their weekly tournaments MTT's - dealers or electronic? They seem to have a lot of 'em.

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MONDAY
$75 (60+15)
4000+1000 chips

TUESDAY
$75 (60+15)
4000+1000 chips

SUNDAY
$120 (100+20)
6000+1500 chips

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2:00pm
10 to 60 players
$275 (250+25)
10 000 chips
Blinds: 30 minutes
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17 to 20 players
$170 (150+20)
6000+1500 chips
Blinds: 20 minutes

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January 25 to Januaray 29
7:30pm
10 to 60 players
$75 (60+15)
4000+1000 chips
Blinds: 20 minutes

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10 to 60 players
10 000 chips
Blinds: 20 minutes
Buy-in: 550$ (500+50)

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I really don't understand why this is only on friday/saturday. a cash game like this should be on everyday. I ask the chef's to put a list for the 5/10 on a random day like tuesday and they look at me like i'm joking lol. I mean the 5/5 is so crapshoot now that everyone buys in for 200 and there's no deepstack 5/10, no wonder everyone is switching over to private games.

i played in the 180+5 tournament... and the blind structures are ridiculous fast... By the time you reach final table, with an avg stack, 1 orbit is like 20-25% of ur stack... they really should be 30 mins blinds.

Hey guys, I'm going to Canada for spring break and am planing on playing some poker at the Casino de Montreal and just had a few questions about the casino for anyone who has played there before.

My first question is if they speak english there or is it mostly french?

Since I'm only 19 I've only every played at Turning Stone, and I am wondering what I do to get into a game here. I was looking to play either $1/2 or 2/5 nlh but cant find anything on their website about how many tables they run or what the buy-ins are for these games. I'll be there from Friday till Tuesday, should I assume that Friday and Saturday will be the best days to go?

Also, does anyone know what they take as a rake there?

Thanks in advance.

I'm a student studying in Montreal and I've been going to the casino on a regular basis.

They speak English and French. All the dealers are proficient in both languages so if the first time they address you in French, just say "anglais s'il vous plait" and they'll talk to you in English. However, the players can choose to speak English or French as they are both acceptable languages at the table but if they're speaking to you and they know you don't speak French, they'll swap to English.

What you do is go up to the podium infront of the tables and ask for your name to go on the waiting list. Then you can sit around the bar and wait for your name to be called. Fridays and Saturdays are best to go but go during the afternoon to avoid the long wait. Sundays are pretty good too and weekdays are kinda iffy.

During rush hour, they'll have 6 1-2 tables and probably 4 or 5 2-5 tables. Otherwise, it's 3-4 1-2 and sometimes only 1 2-5. I think rake is 10% capped at $6 plus 1 for the bad beat jackpot. Don't let that get to you though, the game is soft. This is pretty much the game plan for the average 1-2 tard

1. Limp
2. Flat massive raise
3. Flop pair
4. Profit

You will see alot of limping and 9-10 handed pots. You will see people calling 3bets with KJ or A8. You will hear "well, I had a straight draw, it's 50/50" or "hey, I paid for the flush" when he called 2 PSBs to hit a backdoor flush. It's insane how you can bloat the pot when you actually wake up with a monster. A lot of these people don't have a fold button.

PM me your skype or msn. I'm thinking of going to the casino too and I'll be happy to go with you if you don't mind.

Hi guys. Great thread going.

HAve a question for people who are/have played the MTL casino daily tourneys. I just downloaded the event calander for the month of Feb and see most days at a 100+20 and it says limit of 60 entries.

I am looking for insight on payouts and rake?

I am a regular @ snakes and am seriously looking for chage because the rake is getting crazy for tourney play. It is seriously turning me off. Not even worth playing anymore for such lousy payouts.


Let me know, thanks guys.

I'll be going in the week of Feb 22nd (reading week).. hopefully the wait is not too long during weekdays.

no, the wait is not long at all, they really fixed that up which is great.

On another note, bad beat of 160k was won today at a 1/2 table!

Aw goddamn. I was just there last night and we came close to winning the BBJ.

Board: K Q 8 T 9

Villain 1: A J
Villain 2: 8 8

River came 8, we woulda had it.

anything new over there for the past few months?

I think they should scratch all the electronic tables, and spread omaha and stud games on the other side but that'd be a bad idea since I doubt they have enough (if any) dealers who know how to deal stud and omaha games.

Can the electronic tables spread Omaha and stud, b/c that would be a lot easier and faster than having dealers for the games. Even if they could, odds are 99.99% they don't spread Stud.

it'll take a long time before they even start to think about spreading PLO. I dont' think stud games are gonna happen in the next century lol

Hey guys-

Just wondering, how English friendly are the games? I think I know 5 words in French

Did you bother reading this thread at all?

Guys, I recently sent the casino an email telling them about this thread, got a reply saying:

So I guess it would be useful if someone made some sort of realistic list ITT of what the casino can look at improving with their Poker Room in the future?

How many live dealer tables total are there in Montreal?

there's 20 tables I believe.

Poker pro tables are gone! They have been pretty much empty since the dealers arrived a year ago. There was occasional sit-n-gos and a 1/2 games on saturday nights but thats all.

Everybody hated them but I loved them. I have calculated that the 10$ rake and tips are eating up 50% of my profit at the live tables.

They could have tried putting some omaha or even some fast poker on them.
(Fast poker = 5s of 10s max to act). I also have the feeling they never tried to organize big tournaments on them.

There was so many possibilities for these machines but the Casino de Montreal employees saw non of them.

I am sad to see them go.

gonna be hitting up montreal for a few days, anyone wanna grab a panini and talk strategy, maybe chase around some ladies at a club after stacking donks named pierre, shoot me a pm