hmm thanks are you playing it?

I am, yeah. and I'm playing the one in Lansing two weeks later cause heads up live is the coolest game to play

Snookers is not being shut down. When these new poker rooms near Snookers get ready to open They throw rumors these rumors out there. They all want Snookers business, and they do anything to get it. They go into Snookers sneak around trying to steal the Dealer's and put flier's in the parking lot. They are all desperate, so they stoop as low as they need to go. If i owned the place i would run their azz's out. But Don is too nice of a guy.

Hai there Snookers....

Northville Downs is starting a new structure on Monday that is very similar to this Caesars Palace structure. It is designed to move a little quicker in the beginning but slowere in the middle so skill plays a great roll in winning.

LEVEL SMALL
BLIND BIG BLIND
1 100 100
2 100 200
3 200 400
4 300 600
5 400 800
6 500 1,000
7 600 1,200
8 800 1,600
9 1,000 2,000
10 1,500 3,000
11 2,000 4,000
12 3,000 6,000
13 4,000 8,000
14 5,000 10,000
15 6,000 12,000
16 8,000 16,000
17 10,000 20,000
18 15,000 30,000
19 20,000 40,000
20 30,000 60,000
21 40,000 80,000
22 50,000 100,000
23 60,000 120,000
24 80,000 160,000
25 100,000 200,000
26 150,000 300,000

Heidelberg in Ann Arbor has new hours starting Thursday. 2pm to 2am daily.
they will be running a 5-10 limit RR game on Thursdays as well.

i am not the official spokesman any more, however,,i would like to think i know more than the avg. Joe.

there is no BYE round, whom ever said that. On the website it is specifically stated, 16,32 or 64 players..no more no less. There has been only one other heads- up tourney back in may, all 64 spots were filled(unlike the recent HU tourney at the all mighty, all everything Snookers), and a few late arriving players turned away.

First Place was $3000,,, will be the same this time around, Big Al won the first one, and you can show up,, but your effort will be futile, I will be winning this, i am already registered.

Sounds like u just like to bitch about different rooms.

rumors of cada room running like a $250 2 day event they should just run a 1 day that starts early.. cant wait til this place opens though just to see whats up.. might even try to work there if it gets poppin and just play at snookers after work ; ) or vice versa

Show some class....

this thread is not intended for people to promote their charity rooms... it is for the players.

I asked if there was byes in case it got 35 or 63 players or some other weird number, I just wanted to have a almost full field if I am gonna pay 20 percent juice on playing it I would want max value for winning or placing in it!!!

This alcro527 set up a 2+2 account yesterday to make this statement?
Obv Snookers management, right?
If Snookers wants to keep the poker customers they need to adjust the structure a bit. This can be easily done by making 30min blind increases and adding a few levels after blinds 500/1000
600/1200
700/1400
800/1600
1000/2000
1500/3000
2000/4000
3000/6000
4000/8000 etc....
I have been going to Snookers 3 times a week lately to play tournaments and usually stay for the 2pm and 7pm tournaments because its a 40min drive. But if Cada's Room is offering better tournaments (more poker less all-in-fest) then I will take my play to Cada's along with many other players I'm sure.

Hi Don. Glad to see you here!
















j/k! well unless it's really you then what a great read that would be....

His complaints are legitimate. Charity dealers are, on average, wayyyy too chatty. Snookers, nvd, sharks, docs, etc.

i was never turned away.Actually Don was very accommodating. He started another heads up tournament. I was one of the 8 players. My friend who can't beat $1 sitngos chopped first for $500 each.

Only one player choose to leave. We had a choice between a 9 man sitngo and a 8 man heads up. Dude left on his own.

by the way i am not entirely on Dons nuts or anything. Josh, Don and Ray have been very fair to me and others. Even tho i didn't like one of their ruling they are consistent.

I read somewhere that Michigan doesn''t allow 2 day events at Charity Rooms. I very well could be incorrect tho. Would be pretty sweet tho.

I think one of the VFW (or something like it) in Oxford use to do a 2 day event a couple times a year. I haven't been out that way lately so not sure if they still do.

lol that post I made was almost two years ago, maybe a year and half I think.

That post was what two years ago? I do believe I complemented two of the downtown casinos, but yes I never was a fan of charity rooms. If no one bitches then all poker rooms would take 30-50 percent rake from tournaments. If no one bitched then some rooms like Big Beaver would still be running a 2-5 cash game with a 100 max buyin, and 1-2 with 30 dollar min buyin.

I haven't played much in the past six months, but yes I think players in cash games downtown were better protected then charity. I've seen mucked hand rulings get overturned in charity when a player makes a big enough stink that stops the game. The floor tries to convince the guy who won the pot to split the money which puts the person who won in a crappy spot. Downtown I've seen people try and raise a fuss only to be removed from the game and lose the pot, never once have I seen a floor suggest to give the mucked hand his money back....yes even at Greektown. They might change a rule every 6 hours, but they at least enforce it.

This might have changed in the past year and half or two, I dunno.

With a new room opening that I believe is going to draw in big crowds I am concerned about tournament structures, rake, and payouts and I think are worth bitching about. I would play $100-200 dollar tournaments if I thought they offered more value and skill then a $20 dollar. Really it just adds one or two hours of meaningless poker so your average buffoon feels like they got there moneys worth before turning into your typical $20 tournament. If this new room runs their big money event on Saturday then I can see people busting rolls quickly.

Its worth bitching and talking about, bigger money buyins need to be run different then $20-40.

Yesterday, I had a talk with someone that wants to come to MI and do tournament poker seminars. I was depressed to have to tell him how few good tourneys we have out here. Outside of the monthly Soaring Eagle and HPT, there really isn't any good tourneys to make a living at. The $100 at Snookers on Sundays isn't horrible but 20% juice is really hard to overcome.

$200 2-day tourny 12/1-2 at Dollar-King in Temperance for you tourny lovers.
30 minute levels, start with 50.000. Not sure of structure. Just don't muscle in on my cash games.

Not sure many of us would drive that far without playing cash too

Fwiw, I think the whole tournament structure debate at Charity rooms is moot because the economics of it all doesn't make sense to the poker rooms. Find a way to make long tournaments more profitable for poker rooms, and you will get better structures.