I'll be playing at hollywood this sunday and monday, most likely 1/2 since I'll be in ohio for work and don't want to bring a bunch of cash.

Governor Kasich's mid biennium budget bill has a provision that makes it a felony to conduct a casino game without a license unless expressly permitted by law. I believe this provision would put card rooms, like the Shark Tank, out of business. Analysis is in item #12 on pg 13 here: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/fiscal/mb...paredoc-in.pdf

I saw online the Columbus heads up tourney on March 29th weekend, is the only way to get in that tourney by winning a tournament satellite entry or can I buy one? Are people able to sell their seat to the heads up tourney?

Not sure if they can sell (they are already in money by qualifying) but yes, only way to enter is that Thu tourney. Lame, IMO.

So there will be a new gaming club in central Ohio. It will be called "Action Central". They can be found on FB.
They will be holding two freerolls this week (Feb 26 & 27) Wed/Thu. They will be $3k each day.

And for Friday Feb 28: "Grand Opening Tournament 20k guarantee!!! - Friday February 27, 2015 beginning at 2PM (catered dinner provided) $260 Total Entry ($230 Buy in + $25 User Fee + $5 Dealer Appreciation) 30,000 Chip Starting Stack - 30 Minute Blinds –Re- Entry through level 12"

So there will be a new gaming club in central Ohio. It will be called "Action Central". They can be found on FB.
They will be holding two freerolls this week (Feb 26 & 27) Wed/Thu. They will be $3k each day.

And for Friday Feb 28: "Grand Opening Tournament 20k guarantee!!! - Friday February 27, 2015 beginning at 2PM (catered dinner provided) $260 Total Entry ($230 Buy in + $25 User Fee + $5 Dealer Appreciation) 30,000 Chip Starting Stack - 30 Minute Blinds –Re- Entry through level 12"

Sorry Closed down

Shark Tank is still going strong. NL everynight and Sundays starting at noon. Also a 20/40 HORSE game Wednesday nights and 10/20 w/half kill O8 on Sunday at 7pm.

Limit poker is making a comeback in central Ohio. There is a limit mix game on Tuesdays at the casino with a time rake of $5 per half hour I believe and there are 3 different nights they have limit games at the Tank.

Does Shark Tank still get consistent good 1/2 games going nightly? Or should I goto Ruggles?

Ruggles looks like its had some good-value tourneys lately - thinking about trying it out.

Promos at Hollywood are great, but the players there are either madmen who think theyre skilled and always get lucky or old tight players.

Yes the Tank still consistently gets 1/2 every night. They also have a pretty good weekly tournament schedule.

So now there are like 5 clubs around the Columbus area.
Anyone in here play in any of them? Especially with the poker rooms in all casinos shut by the governor.

Really? I only know of Sharktank.

Deep Stack in Hilliard
Three Kings on South High St
Aquarium on east side of Columbus
Underground in downtown Columbus

Regarding shark tank. Games are so weak. I mean, any time you have multiple players VPIPing 100%, you gonna make money. Problem is, the dealers and floor suck. They seem to not know the rules, they don’t pay attention and miss action. You’re sitting there waiting cuz players have checked but the dealer never noticed cuz he/she is in la la land.

What rules do you feel they do not know or you saw them not enforcing?
As for dealers, lazy dealers or just the wrong day happens. Have you ever dealt before? Haven't been there is probably two years.

Even better is raising 8x preflop and getting multiple callers with stuff like 96o

I haven't noticed anything particularly unusual about dealer quality compared to other rooms across the country.

I’ve noticed a couple maniacs who have paid my rent. LOL.

I think the floor people/management have a propensity to rule in favor of the “pros” especially in the tournaments. There was a really bad call on a verbal declaration in the big tournament on Monday that was just wrong but no one had the balls to rule against the pro and the rec guy seemed too upset/confused to argue his case coherently. It wasn’t against me and the rec guy actually cashed (karma) but it made me even more apprehensive about the club experience.

Hollywood sucked, it really did. It’s nice having no rake. The people at the tank do try their best to have a clean/fun atmospher: That said, I did feel a lot safer playing at the casino in terms of game integrity because there was always the Casino Commission watching over, along with the eyes in the sky.

My other big problem is the guarantees. They always go double the amount guaranteed. Why even bother with a guarantee if you know it’s going to get smashed? I have been meaning to bring this up with one of the owners who I think is a decent and reasonable guy but I don’t know expect him to do anything about it. It just kind of makes them look like pu$$ies.

I’m with you. Hollywood wasn’t perfect either, but it is/was better than Jack in cleveland. Jack actual fights would break out and many times it’s because the management allowed certain people to get away with stuff, threats and whatnot, and finally someone takes matters into their own hands.
I’ve seen similar favoritism at Hollywood. Maybe not quite as bad as at Shark Tank, but it’s still not right.

ItÂ’s funny you say that about the fights at Jack because the only place IÂ’ve ever seen any altercation in a poker room is hollywood. The year or two that Hollywood was operating I was playing blackjack and some drunk girl puked all over the table (and my chips) and looked like she was about to puke again so I instinctively pushed her away from me. Not violent just more of a get out of my way type of thing. Security came out and threatened me with a felony for it! The dealer was ex law enforcement and explained the situation. He honestly kind of played lawyer for me and diffused the situation but I was scared to death and didnÂ’t go back for months.

Fast forward a few years later. I was playing a lot of late night plo games. Everyone kind of knew each other and were pretty cool about everything but there was a bad verbal or pushing match about every week in the game and nothing ever happened. On one hand it was a really bad look for the room but at the same time IÂ’m glad no one in trouble or hurt. It did piss me off that they wanted to make me, a guy who never even had a detention or a speeding ticket (not that I didnÂ’t deserve something), into a felon for not wanting to get puked on yet these guys could cause a scene and the worst thing that would happen would be a 24 hour ban with no security ever called.

Hollywood was just death by 1000 cuts for me. The Shark Tank had 3-4 big issues imo but they do ok overall. It will be interesting to see how things shake out when Hwood opens back up. I doubt I play there again other than big Guarantee Tourneys but my buddy just became a pokerbros agent so iÂ’m going to play there for awhile and see how I like that and avoid live poker for the time being. Hopefully IÂ’ll make a trip to vegas or florida soon!

When deciding what a guarantee should be, the goal isn’t to try and get as close to the actual prize pool as possible. Its job is to give a guaranteed prize pool amount. Putting a business in jeopardy of losing money on a tournament is just irresponsible management, and for little to no upside. Raising the guarantee to these tournament from a 15K to a 25K doesn’t bring anyone else out, but leads to a question of will the guarantee get met. (Especially in the winter months) And when the guarantees don’t get covered by the promotional fund, like a casino does (and instead comes from a small business owner) it doesn’t make logical sense.

As for ruling issues, if you have any questions or feel something has been done in error, please feel free to call us out on it in person. We are all reasonable enough guys and always willing to discuss issues like this.

I have called you out. Problem is, too many “floor” people don’t want to admit when they’re wrong and absolutely will not reverse themselves. So what’s the point now. You get what you pay for.

Hollywood was using our promo funds to cover tourney guarantees? I had no idea.

All Ohio casino rooms were doing this. Since they opened.