Were you playing 3-6 last night? In seat #1 by any chance?

No, wasn't me so it must be my doppelgänger that brky played with on Friday night.

Just an FYI, stuff like this is supposed to be in http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/20...us-oh-1059439/.

Apparently Regional Communities is the LC section.

Players @ the casino are definitely emotional about it. I just don't get why. I'm curious to see if other cardrooms really are starting to adapt it - let me know how your post goes (or link me if you please). Thanks.

Thanks yurk for letting people know. Also just a quick note that you're not allowed to identify cardroom staff or non-famous players regardless of whether you're in Poker Venues or Regional Communities. If you want to do that stuff, it has to be via PM.

The exceptions are if the person is an authorized cardroom representative on 2+2 or the non-famous player is a member of the forum and consents to the discussion.

I had heard it was more normal in Cali to use the tb. I had always heard that the reason for it is that having the button two hands in a row was too big of an advantage, so that made so you cannot be the button (or last to act) twice in a row.

I can see this logic

Eek. Won't be wasting my time heading down there

I've posted the question here on the B&M forums. Honestly, the only time the question came up (I'd played hours) was when I took a smoke break, came back and found out I couldn't buy the BB (in SB position) because of the rule. I didn't pay a lot of attention to how it worked before that point, so if someone could fill in the details on this concept (I'm not entirely sure of all the details, should have grabbed a rule sheet but just wondered instead) in that thread, maybe it'll make more sense to all players.

First casino I experienced the TB in was Wheeling Downs a few years ago so some central Ohio players should be familiar with it from playing there.

http://richardmarcus-pokercheats.blo...y-getting.html

IMO, everyone should keep this in mind in the poker room too. Just be aware of what's going on @ your table.

Explain this more Donni? I doubt this has any connections to poker

In Ohio only one casino dealer has been charged. Apparrently they were working with a player to increase the players bets. I believe it was in Toledo. The article quoted here is about Lawrenceburg IN.

I have played here a few times now at 1/2 NLHE and have noticed the last couple times I have went that many players seem to be raising unusually high amounts preflop far too often.

For example, I went last Saturday and one guy in particular (who seemed like a solid player) kept raising anywhere from $17-25 preflop at least 1 out of every 10 hands. The time before this I have also noticed large preflop raises frequently. It seems the standard 2.5-3X BB raises are practically non existent, and the raises are typically 5-10X BB. I might as well play 2/5 short stacked if it's going to be like this.

Is this a normal thing to expect at this level or have I just been getting seated at really loose tables? What irritated me was even though I was getting the odds to chase flushes and open ended straights on several instances, I would have to call off 15-20% of my stack just to see one card because the post flop betting was quite large as well since the preflop raises had already built the pot significantly. I missed my draws three times (with the correct odds) and my stack was pretty much gone after that. If only I had more to rebuy with that day....

Pretty regular in Columbus due to the play at the clubs and the deeper stacked nature of the games at Hollywood (100% buyin rule). Players that got used to play in the clubs before the casino opened were used to plenty of action even on those 5-10x raises preflop.

These large preflop raises were getting plenty of action, and the pots were very large for a typical 1/2 game.

It seems like there are quite a few people on these forums who play there. I may go Friday or Saturday night if anyone would be interested in meeting up.

I'll be there on Friday night and probably Saturday during the day.

Post "meetup/low content" stuff in this thread

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh....php?t=1059439

Probably not w/ dealers, however professional cheats could certainly work the poker room as easily as they would the house games.

Why don't you think this has any connection to poker? Plenty of cheating going on in poker. THere were several incidents of it in the local Columbus clubs, so I'm sure it is going on in the casino as well.

On Monday night, two guys got tossed for alleged collusion. It was in the 2-5 PLO game, which had only been going on for an hour or so before this happened. I was at the 3-6 limit game a couple tables over. From what everyone at my table was talking about this incident last night, these guys are hoping only to get banned from Hollywood, and not to be put in the 'black book'.

Any details on what they were doing? I've never seen anyone kicked out let alone banned for collusion so I imagine it had to be pretty blatant.

hearsay/conjecture/speculation/not necessarily true

sounded like they started the game heads up... to get it going they were running cold hands in order to increase the stack depth (100% rule, make the game deeper for future players who were on the way)... heard they were settling in cash on the side, so they were not in fact really exchanging the $.

presuming that's all true, 24hr ban seemed appropriate, and they were more upset at the prospect of a permaban. then again, facts were dodgy, and i'm not sure what i heard was accurate (i was at that table after the two were kicked out, got my seat). take that all for what it's worth

Just posted on Hollywood Cbus Facebook:

If that's accurate and it was a first offense I'd say a warning and maybe a temp ban seems appropriate. A perma ban seems really harsh. Hell, I once played in a 2/5 game with a $500 cap where everyone wanted to play deeper. Every time a new dealer sat down everyone would put up $250 blind preflop and run the board out just to get more money on the table. No one ever said a word about it. This was at Hollywood Indiana.

i believe the issue is more settling in cash away from the table. but i agree with the 24h ban as more than adequate..

LOL where do you play live 1/2 that the standard PF raise is 2.5-3x BB? I'm pretty sure that's nonexistent. And if it's not, please let me know where you play so I can never, ever, go there.