Just got back from Harrington’s. Eh, it’s just OK. It’s good for locals, but I don’t see it worth the 2 hour drive for those who are that far out.
Lot’s of quirky rules:
- Forward button move if someone leaves while in the blinds
- Can’t have phone at table. Must move back from table to use it
- Can’t eat while in a hand.
- Must use fork and knife while eating even though they sell mostly sandwiches
- When on the waiting list to play, must wait outside the poker room.
- Runners get you chips and while they’re gone that person waiting for their chips can still play in a hand and when the hand is over and the person folds or loses, the person who is waiting on their chips to arrive still owes the winner chips. The owed chips could be forgotten.
- Dealer can’t give out chips from their tray.
Wait list sucks. You’re going to wait unless you walk up at the perfect time. I was first on the list and had to wait 20 minutes which isn’t as bad as other people that have posted, but there were 7 people on the list and they wouldn’t open a new table because they were afraid people may leave and they have tables short 2 people at other tables. So expect to wait. One guy signed up for 2/4Limit and he was first on list, but was a few hour wait because no demand for the game.
Pretty much 1/2NL games. I was told a 2/5NL will prollly start around 6:30pm—not what I wanted to hear. The 1/2NL games are very soft with lots of weak/passive players. Betting over the pots. Calling with real bad hands on stiff pre-flop raises. People giving away lots of tells. Good news is that the play is real soft, but just not a lot of money on the table. For 1/2NL game, min/max buy-in is $50/$200. There were a like 4 people sitting at the table with $50, 2-3 people with $100 and me and a couple nits sitting with $200 plus— took some time to grind out like $50; it’s just not worth the drive for this IMO.
The rake was OK—10% up to $5 at 1/2NL & 2/5NL.
BBJ was weird. Not sure, but it was like beating aces full of jacks was qualifier, but here’s the goofy part: Both of the hole cards had to make up the hand. Weird.
Room was OK. Deep and narrow. Cashout was in back of room—nice. Location of poker room was a this way, then that way, then this way, then that way, side-winding to the to the right, up some stairs, hard left and straight ahead. Separate from casino.
Comps? I don’t know much about them, but I did hear they’re actually decent.
On a 10-scale, I give it a 5.5. If I was a local, I might give it a 6.3.