The cap 2/5 game may have officially killed the regular game

played in it twice now and liked it a lot.

How so?

positives

many new players ive never played with before, almost everyone bought in for 500 so there was a decent amount of money after awhile and stacks grew fast, ppl got their money in much faster and more frequent, ppl have no idea how to play 100bb or less poker

negatives

going to be hard to have +2k and up sessions

I heard that Friday they had both the capped game and the 100% buy-in game. Did they both get off the rest of the weekend, or only the capped game?

Im sure the 100% was all regs beating each other up sitting 3k deep. Have fun boys. I'll enjoy the much softer game

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This entire casino seems to be cluster ****ed, 100% cap on 1/2 and 500max on 2/5?

they definitely need to have a coherent system. if they capped the 1-2 at $200 they'd get like 5 tables of the 2-5 cap running.

If they're going to add a cap at 1/2 they need it to be at least 300. I'm also of the thought that capped 2/5 should be capped at 750 or 1000. 500 seems a little low but if it gets more recreational players playing 2/5 instead of 1/2, then so be it.

If 1/2 is capped, you'll have a 3-4 2/5 capped games running on a consistent basis. I do not think NL games should be capped however, the poker economy in Columbus clearly cannot support an uncapped 2/5 NL game.

There is no place that lower level NL games succeed uncapped for a long period of time.
Vegas doesn't have it. California doesn't have it. Florida doesn't have it. I don't think AC has it.

That doesn't change my opinion. The 100% of the big stack buy-in is basically an uncapped game in Columbus. Columbus can't support it, so they should probably change it before too many people go broke and the games dry up even more.

Golden Nugget, Las Vegas tho.

Fair enough!

locals, any truth to the rumor that there will be a tourney series in mid may?

This is what is being advertised by the Casino

http://www.hollywoodpokeropen.com/HP...ino%20Columbus

Yes. I posted it itt.

Actually it's not so much a series as it is one $1,100 with 4 starting days.

The Moneymaker 2/5 game is pretty deep, around $15k on table. There is also a 10/20 NL game going.

oh okay, sorry. thanks for the info, see u there.

is moneymaker still in town today?

No, he only plays fri and sat afaik

According to Bravo, poker room has 12 1/2 tables going but only 1 2/5 table. Never heard of that before.
About to check out the room in a couple hours.

This is pretty standard for the room.

Trip report:
Good room. Comfortable.
2 2/5 games running while I was there. Lots of deep stacks. Average around 300bbs???
Saw a $10k pot in the 2/5 game. That was a record pot at any $2/5 game I've sat at.

Wow I've played a lot of 2/5 and I've never seen anything close to a 10k pot. If you don't mind I'd love to hear the details of the hand, player descriptions, etc.

Played my first tourney there on Sat. $210+30 buy-in for a 7k stack, plus at $10 add-on for another 3k in chips that you'd have to be mind-numbingly stupid not to take.

50 entrants this past Sat. Tourney structure is unbelievably fast @20 min levels. I get that you can't run a deep tourney every day but Sat is supposed to be their "big one" and I think deserves at least 30 minute levels. We had 50 entrants and by the time we were down to 30 the average stack was something like 22bb. Pretty ridiculous IMO. Also, 10 minute breaks every 4 levels isn't sufficient. 2nd break should be at least 20 minutes to give someone that hasn't eaten yet a fighting chance of scarfing something down.

Director didn't seem that interested in the tourney and on multiple occasions several minutes passed into the next level (on the computer at least) before they noticed it and announced the blind increase. In general it seemed kind of sloppily run.

One dealer was clueless wrt an easy question. Player A (MP) opened for a standardish raise and Player B (BTN) went all-in for a very small amount on top of that (not a full raise). Player C (SB) checked his cards and asked the dealer if he had the option of raising. Dealer goes blank. I have to explain to the dealer that Player C can raise but that if nobody else raised before it got back to Player A, then Player A would not be able to come back over the top. Dealer seemed to have no idea but everyone seemed to accept my explanation.

I ran hot through the pushbot phase (which was, let us be honest, the majority of the tournament) and finished 2nd for a $2300 payday (minus the buyin). Bink! Dealer didn't know how to deal heads-up and didn't understand the whole Button = SB thing. Had to get the director to explain it to him.

Field as a whole was pretty soft. Lots of chips up for grabs early then people mostly not going after the blinds and antes enough late. Ran roughshod over the FT both before and immediately after the bubble, but then failed in 3 shots to eliminate the eventual winner when getting all-in against him with a dominating hand.