An Omaha table started up at about 6:00 tonight. There were three $1/2 tables also going. Wait time was long.

can you still call in and get put on the list?

When I played there, yes, you could.

Is that recently?

No, but their number is 309.699.7711. An article I found says you can call ahead, too, but it's almost 3 years old, so maybe their policy has changed.

They still let people call in to get on the list. I didn't yesterday and had to wait an hour to get a seat.

Thanks for the update!

Rumor has it the Bad Beat Jackpot has been approved and will start February 1st. The rake will now be a 10%, $4 max +1 for the jackpot drop at 1/2 NL. Not sure if the BBJ will be in effect for any other games.

How often do the Omaha games run? Regular and hi-lo

Most Friday and Saturday nights they have one table that's other than NLHE.

Usually it's PLO8 hi/lo, sometimes PLO hi, and sometimes a mix game with one orbit of NLHE and one orbit of PLO hi. What ever the table votes to play.

Sunday mornings a $115 ($100+$15). Registration begins at 9am 'til 10:45am. Tourney starts at 11am. Forty player max and usually sells out or comes close.

Sunday evenings a $55 ($40+$15). Registration begins at 5pm 'til 6:45pm. Tourney starts at 7pm. Forty player max and usually sells out or comes close.

Monday evenings a $55 ($40+$15). Registration begins at 5pm 'til 6:45pm. Tourney starts at 7pm. Forty player max and usually sells out or comes close.

Four times a year, the Sunday morning tourney is a $355 bounty tournament. $275 to the prize pool, $50 bounties, $5 dealer appreciation toke (for extra chips) and $25 to the house. The next one is Sunday April 28th. Fifty player max and always sells out. Registration starts April 1st and I recommend you not wait until the final weekend to register.


Through the week you can call in and they'll keep you on the list for 1 hour. On Friday and Saturday nights they'll keep you on the list for 2 hours. The poker room number is 309-698-6693. I strongly recommend calling and getting on the list. With only 5 tables the wait can get lengthy during prime time.

As of last Saturday the jackpot was $18,000+. It started as quads beaten but when it reached $10,000 it was lowered to Aces full of Kings beaten. Both hole cards from both players must play.

Last Friday at my table the board read 2AAA2. A player bet $26 and his opponent, a regular, went into the tank. He said "you've got the Ace, don't you?"

He made the crying call and the guy tabled AQ for quads. Reg mucked his cards and the dealer asked what he mucked. He said he had pocket Kings. When told he would have won the bad beat he said he thought it took quads beaten. He wasn't aware it had been lowered to Aces full of Kings.

If he was telling the truth, and from his reaction I believe he was, he cost himself $8500 (jackpot was $17,500 or so). Cost the quad aces guy $4250 and the rest of us $500+.

Said he felt like puking.

FYI...be careful if you haven't played here before or feel free to use this to your advantage. The room allows some of the worst angle shooting I have ever seen. Their tables have a betting line which they do not enforce, but that isn't uncommon. However, I saw 2 different regs do the following: Heads up to the river. Action is on the reg and he calmly stacks up all of his chips into one stack and pushes them forward, past their cards, past the betting line, damn near into the middle of the table. In both instances the other player in the hand says "call" and in both instances the players drag their stacks back to in front of their cards and announce check. So, the cards are not the betting line, the betting line isn't the betting line, and pushing your whole stack in one forward motion into the middle of the table isn't considered a bet until you release your chips...lol!

Stringbet,

That is a minor bad call compared to some that I have seen. I watched this happen:

On the turn all the money goes in with a board of KQ72 rainbow. No cards are tabled. The river paired the board 2. The first player rolls over KQ for two pair. The other player upset throws his cards high in the air. They hit the ceiling and one falls on the floor the other on the table. The player picked up the one on the table face down and threw it in the muck. He then picked the one up off the floor and put it in the muck.

As the dealer begins pushing the pot to the guy with KQ another player says, "If you had aces, you had the winner." The player then asks for the floor to be called.

The floor arrives and the situation is explained. The floor asked the dealer, "Were you clearly able to identify the Aces as they went through the air?" The dealer answered, "Yes." The floor then announced, "Award the man with the Aces the pot. The best hand should win."

I do not actually believe that they favor regulars or anything like that. The guy awarded the pot was not a regular. The man who lost the pot actually was. The floor calls are just completely random. The fear of the way calls will be made makes me play far less here than would be idea for me.

Wow! I played on Saturday and was surprised at what was explained by a dealer. A player announced "raise" and put out a stack of redbirds below the betting line. He then attempted to add a small stack of greens to the bet and was told that the betting line was not official -- that since he pushed his first stack forward and then reached back to his chips for the greens, his greens would not be allowed and were a string bet.

Might be showing up here tomorrow, any 2p2ers in the area?

I was there Friday & Saturday nights and didn't see you. Sorry I missed you.

Didn't end up coming cause of the weather. My car is rear wheel drive so getting home would've been impossible. Next weekend!

See you there.

I left there Sunday about 11am and they had rec'd about an inch of snow that wasn't sticking. Got home (Bement) about 1pm and it was bone dry. About 4 hours later we had 8" of snow on the ground.

Have a friend that left Peoria about 1pm and it took her 8 hours to get to Effingham, normally a 3 hour drive.

Has anyone else ever heard of a casino that refuses to spread a second game no matter how many players they have on the list???

The Paradice has a rule for 2-5 No-limit that regardless of the number of people on the list they will not start a second game. Case in point, this past Wednesday night they had a full game and 14 people on the list and in the room, no second game. When asked why, they say it will cause problems because one game will get short and the other game's players will be upset.

I know some room are able to do this without any trouble. I wonder how they do it? Does any one have any suggestions the management that might help them figure out how to handle more players? I always thought trying to please the players was part of running a room.

The way most rooms handle it is they do a must move system. The players from the second game are told to go to the first game whet a seat in the first game opens up. I don't like must moves, but it would solve your problem.

Harrah's Joliet uses the must move system. I don't particularly like it, but it is what it is. As mentioned, that could be the answer.

I see no reason why they couldn't open up a second $2/5 table. They usually have an Omaha game going and at least one $1/2. I'm pretty sure I also played $1/3 there before.

I have always thought the room was run pretty well. Seems like there might be another reason.

Are games still starting around 10 am on Fridays? I will be there next week and want to get on the first table.

Thanks

Yes. Fridays are often days where things start early. So, 10 could be a bit late.

Thanks, that's even better.

are they still running a sunday tournament

Sunday tournaments -- yes.

Bad beat has been hit twice in recent weeks. Because of their funding methods players currently may lose more in the hand than the return on the bad beat jackpot. So, for a few months it is just like an additional rake. I suspect the number of games and players will fall a lot as a result.