I think he meant that 4 players need to be dealt in for the hand to be BBJ eligible? (yes, I know you meant that limping 2 bucks could yield a profitable pot in the scenario you initially quoted if there were several players in the pot.)

Button straddle in 1-2 NL has increased from $4 to $5.

Long overdue.

The OH Restaurant is one of the most poorly managed restaurants I've ever seen. Oftentimes no staff in lobby and you have to wait forever just to speak to someone, they arbitrarily refuse carry out service at times when they're not busy (and many weekend nights don't permit it at all), they don't provide pagers any longer to let you know when your food is ready, they have a crazy staff turnover rate, etc. It boggles the mind; so unfortunate as the food is quite good on average.

Does the casino allow you to bring in food? I could prolly make a killing wandering around taking Wendy's orders and bringing them into players

Looking to move to Dublin/Columbus area in October. I haven't been to the casino down there yet, mostly going to Toledo with a few trips to Cleveland/Detroit. Any advice on starting out there? And is it basically the same as Toledo? Thanks.

Deeper stacks and more action here than Toledo. Toledo's cash games are a snore fest compared to weekends and some weeknights in Columbus.

Sounds like Columbus definitely suits my style of play better then! I can't wait to make it down there. I hope I get to meet some of you guys. Much love!

LOL, nope, no outside food allowed. Which makes the OH issues especially annoying as it's the only place I want to spend my comp dollars on food.

They must have heard you, OH was taking to-go orders last night!

Coming in from out of town for work next week. What are the best nights for PLO? Does it get off every night?

Not every night. Order of likelihood probably something like Friday, Thursday, Saturday, Tuesday.

Haha, I'm afraid it's all an elaborate tease. They've gone back and forth many times, multiple times announcing a new policy of never or almost never turning down carry out orders only to change the policy back to not permitting them during times that they are clearly not very busy. I'm not going to be sucked into the vortex of optimism again.

What djj said.

I heard they are giving away $1,000 per hour for high hands on Halloween ALL DAY. Any truth to that??

It is on the Bravo app so I would say yes. There are other high hand promotions in October as well. I'm on my phone out I would post a link.

Yeah they are busting with Promo Funds since the old bad beat jackpot got thrown in there when they merged with Toledo.

$1k High Hand from 11am to 3am on Halloween, good High Hands on Fridays / Mondays, and lots of $50 game starting bonuses depending on the day.

Entire casino was evacuated tonight for some reason, anyone have any idea?

It was reported that a fire alarm was pulled.

Plan to call in and check in 58 mins after you call if you are playing 1-2 NL or 4-8 limit. 77 and 34 on those lists, already looking like they are comically undermanned today. Sure, do your biggest promo ever then act surprised when you get mobbed.

they've had it happen before, it will happen again.

That has become completely standard here, though to their credit they did a better job managing the demand as the day continued. It's depressing that the room seems to be satisfied that it's doing a competent job as long as some bare minimum measure of performance is attained. It's a pervasive culture of mediocrity and they've been so steeped in it for three years that they can no longer even see it for what it is. The recent promotions are a step in the right direction but they cannot and will not compensate for some very basic structural problems that have persisted in this room since day one and deserve the lion's share of management's attention.

I usually hold my tongue about this room on here in hopes things will get better and out of recognition for the fact that most floormen genuinely seem to care about the health of the room and accommodating players' concerns, but I'm galvanized to action now that the room has been around long enough that higher standards in the quality of the room are completely reasonable and there have been some disturbing trends lately that in addition to hurting my own bottom line as a player are also hurting the casino's longterm profits.

Most problematic, the room seems to be on a mission of late to kill 5-5 PLO. For one thing, they begin offering a 2-2 PLO promotion on the two weekday nights (Tuesday, Thursday) 5-5 PLO had consistently been getting off organically on its own that has had the effect of hurting the 5-5. I realize there were other reasons for wanting to promote this game, and I don't hate the idea of building interest in PLO via promotions, but they've managed to upset a lot of their most loyal PLO players, many of whom now have to travel to Cinci to play the game they want to play and have stopped playing in Cbus altogether or now play much less in Cbus.

In addition, there have been repeated instances lately of huge wait lists for 5-5 PLO being almost totally ignored. Yesterday, each of the six players playing 5-10 NL wanted to switch the game to 5-5 PLO and the room refused because one person in the game was not among the first 9 on the list (he was 10th). Instead of running a simple interest check we suggested that could have axed a player and potentially solved this issue (very likely scenario), the floor gave us the option of either relocating to a table in a remote corner of the room that didn't have an auto-shuffler or not get a game. After we declined to relocate, the floor never took any action to try to get the game off the ground, despite the list reaching 21 people at one point. Refusing to accommodate us 6 handed was especially absurd given that the table would have insta-filled up if it had switched.

Three or four Fridays ago, the list also reached such heights on a non-crazy promotion day and the floor never even bothered checking interest, let alone calling a game. And, a few days ago, the list reached ~15 and the floor refused to call the game "because it might break the 2-5 NL," never mind the fact that the 2-5 NL had four-six players on the waitlist (maybe two of whom would have played PLO). Whether the potential of breaking the 2-5 game should have even mattered is another question.

When the game was finally spread the other night after some players had waited two hours, the attitude seemed to be that we should be grateful, when we had all seen multiple dealers walking around doing nothing for those two hours.

Personally, many nights I would just as rather play NL than PLO and put my name on lists for both games, but the thought that the option of playing PLO is off the table sometimes when there is more than sufficient interest to start a game is appalling.

From what I've heard, a lot of the floor's disdain for the game has to do with it being a time rake game, ie less profitable, which is absurd. First, the short term profit difference is pretty minimal and assumes another, pot-rake table will replace it. More importantly, this kind of persistent alienation of customers will result in less longterm profit as patrons turn away from this place. This room needs to stop being so obsessed with short term profit and pinching pennies and more concerned about the big picture.

How much are poker tables worth? Maybe they should sell the tables they literally can't use and then use that money to run their promotions. Then they can stop stealing my money to subsidize a bunch of extra 4/8 limit games that just block games from opening that are actually worthwhile.

Hey hey hey, they got up to 31 tables in use Saturday. As in they only left five unused, none of which have shufflers.




PS get rid of those tables and let me be able to back out from the table in the 5 seat without knocking into the person behind me.

Great post. Much like 2+2, Hollywood Casino has constructively eliminated me as a regular customer and ambassador. I feel for you guys and hope things turn around but as evidenced by Caesars pulling out of Ohio and the lawmakers attitudes towards cannabis I fear the outlook is less free market and more bureaucratic horse droppings.

Edit: no offense meant towards horses, which are better than oppressive overlords.

Hi everyone, my name is Dave Nutini and I am the night time (soon to be daytime) shift manager at the Hollywood Columbus Poker Room. I’ve been in the room here since Day 1 and I know many of you already either from interactions in the room and/or meeting you in various poker clubs prior to that. For those of you I don’t know, feel free to come introduce yourself! Poker has been a passion of mine for over a decade whether it be a hobby, side income, livelihood whether by playing or currently as my career. I take it very seriously and have ambitions of making this room the best it can be. I have followed this page from afar for quite some time to keep tabs on where we can improve. Typically when this arena is quiet is when things are running fairly smoothly, which is the way it has been up until recently, so I wanted to address some of the critiques, and quell some of the recent opinions posted here and hopefully give a better understanding of the direction the room is going and why certain decisions are made. I urge you all to continue to post constructive criticism of your room and please feel you can ask questions as you see fit. I’ll try to do my best to give updates, answer questions to the best of my ability as time allows.

In response to the post by Karamazonk, first off I’d like to apologize for not getting either PLO game off the ground that evening. We had “ all hands on deck” that evening, and not a single dealer on our roster was not scheduled, and we ultimately ended up using every table with an automatic shuffler. Unfortunately, that meant that we felt we had an obligation to attempt to get as many players in the game from bad beat eligible/promotion eligible tables in seats to the best of our ability. We were giving away their money, and getting them in a seat to try to win some of that money was a priority on that evening.

Conversely, I know that we have done our very best to cater to the PLO players on any other night and will continue to do so. I have been asked many many times to open a game as soon as a certain player shows up and almost every time, a dealer is sent to a table to deal almost immediately. When we have similar lists between the 2/2 and the 5/5 PLO game we also open games from the top down meaning we always open the bigger game first. Many times we have broken a 2/2 PLO game simply to open a 5/5PLO game and make less revenue (as previously stated that we have a disdain for the bigger game since it is time raked). There are many times that the 5/5PLO list gets “stale” because to my understanding the game will not go unless a certain player shows up, and unfortunately the majority of that game’s livelihood is dictated by that one player. I know I have gone around many times and polled some of the players asking if they need a dealer and I get an update on whether that one player is showing up or not, many times saying the game won’t go until then, so it gets put on hold. So our rumored dislike to run that game is simply not true. Our attempt at running the Game of the Month promotion for 2/2 PLO is simply an attempt to grow PLO action in Columbus, not kill the 5/5 game. Currently, our action is very minimal and it is the same names in the game every time it runs. We get the occasional 2/2 PLO game off but only when it doesn’t interfere with the 5/5 game and not vice versa. That’s why we lowered the stakes on the game and tried to offer some seed money to get players in the 2/2 game that hopefully we get some sustainability to PLO in Columbus except to simply hope that the same 12-15 players who play 5/5 stay playing.

With that said, I or we are FAR from where we want this room to be. We are not happy with mediocrity, and continue to make changes, even subtle ones all the time. There is a long term plan in place to cure our seemingly recurring staffing issues, we are always looking to improve our promotions to bring more players into the room, and we are looking into revamping the tournament program and make them a priority. There are going to be many bumps in the road, and these changes cannot happen overnight. Corporate approvals, OCCC approvals, etc make changes a drawn out process, but rest assured that changes are happening all the time. We cannot promise to make the room exactly what each individual wants it to be as we have a wide player base but we will attempt to do what makes sense for the mass majority of players that makes them want to keep coming back, makes it a place that players want to play and makes our company successful.

So with that said, I look forward to hearing from you all and hope to see you in the room soon!

Dave