Appreciate the info!

complain all we want this is still better then most american casinos

I recently made my first trip to playground in almost a year, and second ever. The above was exactly my experience, and as a 2/5 player, I was quite disappointed. The action at 2/5 is noticeably worse than last year, and the tables are much reggier.

I much preferred the old, brighter, larger room with its high ceilings. The new third floor room is quite dimly lit with low ceilings which isn't a great vibe. The menu has also gotten slightly worse, with the carrot cake and cheesecake gone from the desserts.

However, it is still a positive experience, especially when compared to southern ontario. But is evident that the recent changes are not player friendly, and definitely moving things in the wrong direction.

I found it comparatively quite disappointing. I had been planning to make trips out there relatively frequently, maybe monthly during the summer. However, when factoring the drive and hotel costs, I am not sure it is really worth it over the average 2/5 game in my local casino.

How are the PLO5 games there?

Unfortunate update of another greedy casino. I took another trip here. The 5% max rake at 2/5 and above that is now replaced by 10% has killed the 5/10 which went from running 16 hours a day 7 days a week to now almost never being ran. This makes the 2/5 even worse because some of those pros from 5/10 moved down. The 5/5 PLO 5 card barely runs now but I am not sure if thats also because of the rake or maybe just the time of the year or some action players stopped playing. When you walk from the parking lot it takes almost 10 minutes to get up to the poker room instead of being the first room you walk into like it was before. Playing in a cramped dark low ceiling room sucks ass.

I doubt the 5-10 or 5-5 plo died because of the rake change. Montreal isn’t a very rich city, with high inflation recs have less and less extra money to play around with, there’s only so many fish in this city that can afford to lose at these stakes on a regular basis.

Also with woodbine running 5-10+ for the past year we’ve lost most of our toronto crowd which doesnt help either.

Hopefully games will pick up in october after the summer break.

5/10 died pretty much right at the rake change. I dont play here a lot but I look at the table list multiple times a week and 5/10 was running pretty much every day for the half year I was paying attention. If people move permanently to Toronto for poker over Montreal those are probably the ones we dont want at PG anyway.

Uh? Im saying before the GCR room opened , pg would like get alot more recs from Toronto/ontario and that would often get the 5-10 running.