Not that much for a part time dealer.

I was slightly kidding about the mobile home thing, she bought a 40K car which to me is pretty impractical considering you could get a nice mobile home and be able to live out the rest of your life only paying lot fees and utilities with the same 40K but to each his or her own I guess. I was just curious I guess, none of my business just seemed crazy they made that much. The poker dealers who I'm friends with told me that they made minimum wage and I guess it seemed kind of crazy that blackjack dealers made that much more. I guess they stand on their feet the whole time and probably do a little more thinking than poker dealers (calculating payouts, totaling hands, etc) but still.

Anything interesting poker wise going on in the casino?

Guy called a $300 all-in with 9 high

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Got lucky and donked a few grand out of the 2/5 regs earlier in the week. I was a total luckbox that night. Sorry regs. I am sure I will pay it back next time I'm in Columbus.

Pit dealers pool their tips at many casinos. I'd guess that Cbus dealers make minimum wage (4.25/hr) + tips.

Poker dealers make more or less depending on their technical skills, how fast/well they run a game, and if they are male or female.

Contrary to what you think, poker dealers do more thinking than BJ dealers.

This thread needs donnicolo back (he was banned I believe), he spews important information and is nice voice for the community.

^^^^ +1 agreed.

He wasn't banned; he's just not allowed to post in the B&M forum anymore due to a long list of rules violations, including posting with a gimmick account while on a tempban. He made a thread in Mortar and Brick for Ohio poker and he's allowed to post there, so you can use that thread if you'd like in addition to this one. If you have any further questions or comments on this issue, send me a PM.

free donnicolo

Just posted on Facebook:


Hollywood Columbus Poker Room
24 minutes ago
We will begin offering structured buy-ins for cash games, as well as an entirely new game limit, on Saturday March 1, 2014.

$1/2 NLHE $100min/$400max
$2/5 NLHE $300min/$1000max
$5/10 NLHE $500min/$2000max
$10/25 NLHE $1000min/No Max
$1/2 PLO $100min/$500max
$5/5 PLO $300min/$1000max
$5/10 PLO $500min/$2000max
$10/25 PLO $1000min/No Max

New Game: $1/1 NLHE $20min/$100max. This is a great game for Limit Hold Em players that want to get comfortable with No Limit and start stepping up, or for new players that want to try it out in a smaller game.

How many 1/1 games do you think the room will average? Half the room?

Does anybody know if the 5/5 PLO game will be time raked?

Per a tweet that I saw, 5-5 PLO will be percentage rake. 5-10 PLO will be time rake.

So how does a fella get on this ''advisory counsel'' of poker players and how does someone lobby his or her (I assume) unelected player representatives? I went on a vision quest last night and it dawned on me that this group allows players to help set the rules that they are going to be playing under against other casino patrons; not against the house. If we are going to let certain players have that advantage, I want to be one of them playas ya dig?

The only logical solution is to make the meetings truly town hall meetings open to the public with advanced notice or to post the transcripts of the meetings somewhere (like idk the commission's website) so that people don't have their rights trampled on by crazy rule changes like those that have taken place.

I may be wrong, but I know I'm right.

A good place to start would be talking to the staff and management at Hollywood. Also, social media avenues for voicing your displeasure with the changes.

Naw man that's how it should have worked, but the powers that be created a psuedolegislative body and I want on it or want it disbanded. Revolution I say.

That's how you got a "council" in the first place. A group of individuals voicing concerns and being asked by management to meet and discuss alternatives to the status quo.

Or it was the Illuminati.

Sounds like it, why would only four unelected players be able to have a 4 hour meeting behind closed doors with mgmt? Sounds to me like a lizard meeting I have to be honest.

In all seriousness though, I just don't want this place to turn into the way the clubs are where the dealers and mgmt cheat for their friends and interpret rules in favor of the ''in crowd''. I know there's a much smaller chance of deck setting and dealing from the bottom like they used to pull in the clubs but I don't think it looks on the ''up and up'' to be doing these panels.

I was one of the players at the meeting. I hate almost all of the changes. Other participants are of a like mind. Don't assume they're to our benefit. I don't blame you for being paranoid but the reality is the opposite of what you suggest, ironically.

What gives with only allowing 100x the bring-in at 1/2 PLO while everything else other than the newly-minted shorty-fest at 1/1 NL is given 200x+ big blinds/bring-ins? If the room wants to modify its philosophy, I understand, but wouldn't consistency with the adjustments throughout all the games be common sense?

Furthermore, to anyone who thinks that a handful of regs are suddenly running the show and dictating the rules, we all need to look no further than the promos being offered to test that theory. Where are the rewards for high volume play? Other than a one-time freeroll last month (with a poor structure), they're giving us all absolutely no incentive to put in the hours each month. I'd imagine this was brought up in the meeting but if we look at the March promos, clearly nothing is improving there yet. From some of what I've heard, the term "bread and circuses" comes to mind regarding that meeting, so before we in-fight over how to come up with the fairest way to have all players' voices counted, we should make sure they're even truly listening to us in the first place.

Have to agree with dickwiggle on all counts here.

I agree Doug, but the problem is the max buyin would be the same for both the 1/2 and 5/5 games. I wish caps were never instituted, but with them the bring in at 1/2 PLO should be 2, not 5.

I really think the caps at the PLO games should be 300 bbs, not 200.

Yeah, I definitely agree that the max buy-ins should be different between them. I think I mentioned it earlier, but something like 200min/1000max at 1/2 and 400min/2000max at 5/5 would have made much more sense, in my opinion, if the room is trying to establish deepstacked play but with hard caps that's somewhat equitable between holdem and PLO. 5/10 and above should then obviously be proportionally higher or uncapped.

Instead, the min was left at only 20x the bring-in at 1/2 and the hard cap is implemented at just 100x. That's essentially just like a hard 40min/200max at 1/2 NL...



I guess if Cbus wanted to completely eliminate the only competitive advantage they had over Cinci in terms of PLO, then mission accomplished.

This entire post is tilting as hell. Are you really comparing the card clubs to a Hollywood Casino as far as cheating and "in crowds" lol wow? I bet you think pokerstars is rigged.

I was also at the meeting. I got on the panel because I asked management to be on it. Crazy.

Pretty much everything was discussed at the meeting during a 3-4 hour span. I thought there was somewhat of an understanding that the caps would all be what they are with the exception of:

- 1/2 being $500 max instead of $400.

and the big one...

-5/5 PLO from my understanding leaving the meeting was suppose to be 2k cap, time raked. I felt like this would take over the room and attract all sorts. Instead its 1k cap and no time rake.