What I think is that this forum would be the first stop for an enforcement officer looking to rack up targets for fines.

This is just wrong, at least as to the AG, unless it has issued a recent opinion to the contrary. There's a difference between thinking something is legal and deciding whether to enforce it. There's also a difference between conjuring up a legal argument and knowing whether that legal argument would actually survive an objective legal analysis. I'm not going to get into detail, but I have more than just an armchair opinion on this.

And no need to get dramatic about "people calling you a criminal." People do things all the time that are against the law and they aren't considered criminals. In this context it smells like "doth protest too much."

I'll also stand by my "home games are more legal than the clubs comment," and it's silly for you to say otherwise. You yourself admit there are gray areas with the clubs. There are actually gray areas (meaning poorly worded statutes/regulations) with home games, but far less.

I fully support the clubs, by the way, and hope the gray areas do get smoothed over. They should too while they have support. Tide turns in the legislature, DA's office, or one of many other places, and it wont' take much to turn those gray areas into forced shutdowns.

Anyone been out at Chinook Winds for the Deep Stacks? How are cash games?

Went out yesterday for the bounty tournament and a friend tagged along for the cash games. Nothing going until mid-afternoon; he said word was not much had gotten going the night before. Not sure about the weekend.

Hmm. Even mid-afternoon is pretty good for middle of the week. Trying to decide if I want to make the trek this weekend.

G. No player shall bet more than $1 in money or other thing of value in any one game, and the amount awarded the winner of a game shall not exceed $1 in money or other thing of value multiplied by the number of players in the game.

Tournament chips have no monetary value.

the winners of the games are paid in tournament chips?

Each shootout is technically a tournament

tournament buyins are paid for in tournament chips?

One could rent poker chips to play a tournament, then get a refund amount paid to the top 10-20% of players in the tournament.

Or in a shootout u rent $200 worth of chips then at the end, you get a refund based on your total equity in chips.

Just a theory

lol i love the wording.

it's a cash game. you sit down wherever you want, you buy chips (which are exactly like cash game chips at a casino red $5 white $1 greens $25). There's supposedly a beg and an end but they've pushed it from 2 hours to 4 hours and there's talk of 6 (maybe), and then they allow certain people to cash out after X time, allow "unlimited rebuys" and the option to buy in deep (lose your first hand below the max and you can add on an additional 100bbs) or just quietely add chips which people seem to do on the reg. only thing the cash games i mean equity chop shootouts don't allow are straddles but it's coming.

at the end of alloted time (or if you are a reg and get the ok to leave early) they cash you out. I mean they do an "equity chop". lol wording.

only thing that bothers me is people insist it isn't a cash game when it clearly is. as if they are being super tricky. anyone with exp playing cash obv know what it is.

Just wanted to pop in and say I was in town about three weeks back and played a noon Friday tournament at Encore and could not have been more impressed. Great structure, great value, solid mix of players. I had a fantastic time.

The noon at Encore is one of the best tournaments around. Usually 2k prize pool for 40$ buy-in, good structure. Quality.

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Hey all,
I may be moving to Portland in a few months. I've been searching the forums and saw at one time there was a semi-regular 2/5 game at ace of spades. Does this still run regularly and are there other 2/5+ games in town that have popped up?

Is it feasible to try to play for a living at 2/5 and 5/10 nlhe or do these games just not run often enough? Any advice much appreciated, thanks!

Am I reading this right
Rake free strip club 1/2 NL games !?!?

^ yeah and the game is uncapped lol

Portland is the nutz......... is true and the name of my poker man strip club

"The" game? There are at least two really solid 1/2 strip club games. They're great games, but if you like to focus it's kind of a problem. Aside from naked women, the music is obviously a little loud, and lighting pretty bad (really bad at one of them). I'm usually fine with it, but I know a couple of players who won't play these games because of the music.

One game is close enough to the stage that players throw chips at the dancers. I'm waiting for one of them to get hit in the eye. That would be quite the workers' compensation claim.

Would really like a good description of these clubs
Trip reports plz

Not much to trip report about. Strip clubs with poker. The strip club attracts the drinkers, so a larger percentage of drunks than at other clubs (IME). At one of the clubs the dancers hover, trying to hit you up, and it's really annoying. At the other one I play at, I've never had a dancer approach the table.

As I mentioned, music is very loud, and lighting far from ideal. At one of the games people literally use candles to see their cards. I can put up with it, since the games are juicy. Only thing that really bugs me is the two clubs I play at don't start playing until 10:00 pm, and shut down at 2:00. The games are nearly always full or close to it right when they start, so I have no idea why they don't try starting earlier, at least 9:00. Dealers working on tips alone, so figure they'd be interested.

I bet!

dude how much of a nit can you be? your playing poker at a ****ing strip club, of course there are naked women hovering over you trying to take your $, wtf do you think those places are there to do?

*you're

That nitty.

What are the clubs names ?