Considering the 2/5 player pool is seemingly being cut in half every month, I'm not too optimistic about bigger games getting off with any kind of regularity. While I don't think the attrition will continue at the current rate, I'll be surprised if more than two 2-5 games open up on more than one day of the week from here on out.

Curious, as to what you think the caused the drop in 2/5NL player pool? I'm a 1/2NL player (casual, once a week 6-7 hour sessions) who has been building bankroll before moving up to 2/5NL. I liked what I saw when HCC opened, but at the time if I got felted I would have been out for a while. I have noticed it too, but just attributed it to the end of school/normal drop in interest of anything new.

It's standard for the player pool to drop off significantly after a new room opens (people playing w/o proper BRM, the rake taking its tool, less interest to new players as the novelty wears off, etc.), but IMO in Columbus the normal attrition has been accelerated by two main factors: 1) the 100% rule (allowing fish to get stacked even more easily), and 2) the absurd # of people trying to make a living in Columbus playing poker

Have there been long lists for the 2-5? Whenever I've gone, I've gotten a seat fairly quickly. It seems to me that they would open more 2-5 tables if the demand was there.

I think the real problem is on prime nights there will be 25 tables of 1/2 and no room to add PLO or bigger NL games.

I'm with you I don't know if demand is there all the time but capping 1/2 at 20 tables would be reasonable.

(Double post)

ya this is pretty much the problem. fish that have the roll for 2/5 but just want to play poker never want to wait for a 2/5 seat because there is always a fast seat open at 1/2. I'm sure if there were open 2/5 seats many would play 2/5. they won't start new 2/5 games until there is like 10 ppl on the list. I'd rather see them start tables with 6 or 7

There is a lot of commotion right now at 2/5. At least 6 floor guys. Guy called an all in and now claiming he did not see villains purple chips. Villain is a reg. Not sure about other guy.

Floor is still there and the guy is still trying to get out of paying. It's been about :20+.

pay the man

Almost encountered a similar situation there a while back. I was wondering what the floor ruling would have been. I sit down at a six or seven handed table with around 250 bbs. I raise tens in lp and the bb 3 bets me with a smallish stack he's holding in his hand. I ask to see his stack and he shows about 20 bbs so I just jam. He says something like "really blah blah?" and folds after a little bit of thought which I thought was weird.

Dealer goes to put a missed blind button on a 300+ bb stack in front of the empty chair next to him before the next hand and the guy stops him and says that those chips are his. He was just keeping them so far to the side they were in a completely different seat. I'm not sure what they would've ruled if he had called. The dealer not so subtly told him to move his chips after the fact but the guy was too dumb to realize.

Most likely you would have been obligated to pay (or win) all of his chips, including the ones off to the side. Of course, each floor is different, so you never know.

I was in Louisville one time and saw a player with 4 sticks of red lined up in front of him. His opponent has about 1k in front of him and shoves the turn. Mr. 4 sticks snap calls with the nuts and holds. He then pulls out a purple ($500) chip behind the wall of red chips. Only people who could hav seen the purple were angle shooter and those on either side of him. When Mr. 1k objected, floor ruled that he (Mr. 1k) could have asked for a count, but didn't, he just shoved all in. Floor then lectured the angle shooter on keeping the big chips visible, but talk about too little too late.

Candlebox! Live @ Hollywood tonight!

TOURNEY SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!

All events capped @ 100 + 20 alternates. Wow.

-All 20 min levels? Boo.

-What is the $240 referenced in the bottom chart?

-Only one weekly w/ a buy-in > $100?

Saturday morning tourneys are 240

Very meh imo but I'm not really interested in tourneys that much to begin with. More interested in hearing thoughts on the previous promotion announcement beginning in February.

"Starting February 3rd and continuing every Sunday through May 12th...

The Hollywood Poker Open Seat and Cash Giveaway!
$7300 in Las Vegas Packages and Cash Drawings every Sunday for 15 weeks!

Grand Prize Drawing at 10pm each Sunday beginning February 3rd through May 12th for a $4000 M Resort Package to play in the Hollywood Poker Open at the M Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.($2500 Seat + $1500 Cash toward travel expenses).

ALSO: $100 Cash Drawings every 15 Minutes from Noon to 8pm!

That's a $4000 HPO Championship Event Las Vegas Package and $3300 in cash drawings every Sunday from February 3rd through May 12th.

Earn drawing entries by playing in LIVE poker games with your Marquee Rewards Card each Sunday from 3am to 9pm. Entries are good for day of drawings only. Must be present to win Grand Prize. Must be seated in a LIVE poker game and playing with a Marquee Rewards Card at the time of each $100 drawing to be eligible to win the Hot Seat Drawing."

Seems like pretty good value.

6 more tables coming. Also heard plaques have been made for 5/10 and 10/20.

So glad they changed that. Sounded really dumb and I'm not even sure what it was supposed to accomplished.

Also, they put the payout breakdowns for tourneys on their Facebook page.

Tip- don't try to order food from OH! when it's busy. They are not accepting any take-out orders. I had been dreaming of some hot za and I was utterly disappointed to hear I could not order out. I spoke with a nice lady in charge and she explained that the kitchen simply can't handle it, so they have to cut someone off when it gets that busy. That someone becomes take-out customers (aka poker players).

Sucks. And to make things worse the wait at Take Two is :20.

She did say that they are working on a way for waitresses in the poker room to be able to bring us food (only from OH! though, not T2).

Place is nice, just needs a cage and a few massage girls runnin around.

Cage in the poker room is coming.

Has the BBJ been hit? What's it up to?

BBJ is at around 255k

Yea I know. So are the massage chicks too.

Whatever keeps these Cinncinatti herds here, I've seen about 4 out of every 5 get their heads kicked in.