guys i been reading into the tipping thing started by dealer rep, all i have to say to him or her is that your not too familar w/poker, i have to agree w/all other posted responses,poker is not dinner@drinks we as players are not going to tip you a 18%gratutity on each pot, i myself usually tip 1 dollar on each pot if its 7$ or 70$ now if i take down a say300 to 600 $pot sure a red bird or two is in order,but i play pretty regulary at river and around us ,and for as many hands that are seen down rivers the dealers do well, sure theres an occasional stiff usually because someones poker ettiquette not good or one of players is pissed off at a mistake dealer has made but this few and far between, if dealer rep you are indeed a dealer my advice is to concentrate on dealing 45 hands per hour, if you average a 1$ on each hand ,do the math,and by the way watch the dealers at rivers , then take a walk down boardwalk,or on freemont street and watch those dealers,and see some of things they do and put up with ,and youll see that dealers dont have it too bad at rivers

http://www.riverspokerroom.com/
There have a website up for the poker room now.

in some circumstances against the right opponents, the per hand EV is much higher for someone playing pushbot when avg. chips are ~10BB than with avg. chips 50-100BB. Although in the deeper stacked tournaments the smaller chip stack situations will eventually arise, if you look at it from $/hr, turbo would be very profitable for someone capable of pushbotting effectively. for example i played the nightly tourney for the first time tonight and won it, although i did bink Q8=QQ>99 AIPF chop early to stay alive... what variance

How is the 2/5 game? I have only been playing 1/3 because my hourly has been very solid mostly due to the poor play at the tables I have been on. Is the 2/5 game as fishy or is it tougher?

2/5 is super NIT during the week with the regs. I'm probably the only agro player, maybe one other one. Weekends are much better

Finally got a good $2/$5 game last night. Played with a dude that looked like Mike Caro and I hit a jackpot! Quad Kings for $33.02 baby! Ship it!!!!!!

Lol nice hit kydd. I was in Vegas and lead out w QQ on KQx. Everyone obv folds and I show. Dealer exclaims 'why would u bet that!?!?' losing my chance to hit the highhand bonus lol.

i love the guys that chop unless they have a bad beat qualifier
"so if i have a qualifier i'll cough, then if you also have one we'll put in $10 and check it down, but if you don't have one cough back and we'll chop"
ok brah see you there

kydd is a luckbox, no money in 2/5 eeryones solid

Don't hate because I stacked you. Still mad about not 4bet shoving your one squeeze play. I don't know how much you play the $2/$5 there, but I think your style of play is pretty optimal at most nitty $2/$5 tables. The one we were at tonight is the most solid one I've seen. I've only had only losing night at the $2/$5 game.

15 dollar yuengs plus tip

Wow, loved the room. Spacious, well located for gambler traffic. Soft tables. One guy had won at baccarat $2500. He dropped$ 600 in about an hour.

Can't believe Columbus not putting casino downtown. They should see Rivers... very cool.

Lowest NLHE buy in is $100 at the $1/$3. Alch is not free. The action literally has never stopped since the casino opened, but night is the best.

Played all night last night. Super luckbox at the $2/$5 had $3k and he got bluffed out of a pot, went on tilt, and donked it all off in 30min. One of the best $2/$5 games, in terms of value, I've ever played in. Myself, 2 solid regs (one of which is my cousin and we don't play against each other) 2 bad regs, 3 super fish, and the 3k luckbox.

I think one of the super fish was trying to impress his g/f b/c he was on the $5/$10 list and he was terrible. He was calling, literally, everything (pot sized bets on the river with 2 over cards to the board). I asked the only other guy on the $5/$10 (who is a black polo-wearing reg) to play 3 handed with a gentlemens agreement that we would play pot control and pretty much just gun for the fish. The three of us ended up agreeing to play $10/$20 with a 3k min buy in. I got a boner. Then, as soon as we were ready to play, the fish's g/f came over saying she busted and wanted to leave. Such a **** tease.

not playing against a friend/fam/etc on a full table is one thing. 2 regs colluding against one fish in a 3 handed game is cheating.

Have to withdraw my praise for the Saturday tourney structure. Still decent, but they dumped several of the early levels.

December 4 they are having a $550.

Too bad the 1/3 tables get so nitty after 5 am

Staying out of another good players way and targeting a bad player is not colluding.

Action packed $5/$10 last night. Very +EV. Some $2/$5 regs playing, but also some people that I've never seen before. Pretty fishy. People calling 4x raises with K2, tons of straddles... I got 4bet jammed on by a dude with a flush draw, and most importantly, the game lasted till 6am.

Very true. Way out of line.

true, but talking about it, then agreeing on it is COLLUSION
some things are better off not said, if you really wanted to do this w/o getting bad rep, some things are better off not said

col·lu·sion
   /kuh-loo-zhuhn/
–noun
1. a secret agreement, esp. for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy: Some of his employees were acting in collusion to rob him.



Sounds to me like you are engaging in textbook collusion.

And to think, I was planning on playing in this game over the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

You might scare off other recreational, donating customers like me if word gets out that the regs intentionally soft-play one another.

regs will soft play each other a lot, not only at rivers but everywhere, im guilty of this too,but i never talk about it, kydd u suprise me by bringing this up in public forum ,you come off like smart guy, that post wasnt too smart on your part

ur right, the only 2 things that guy is good at it is colluding and cheating, what a loser

im sure the guy in black polo appreciates you throwing him under bus in public forum that you and him agreed to cheat hahahha

it's not necessarily a guy in a black polo

it could be a black guy who wears polos

Are you planning on splitting profits at the end too, gentlemans agreement my ass. This is overt cheating, this is why there are some many people protesting legalized gambling. Please go punch yourself in the face, and think about what you are posting

Clearly not cheating imo. First off it didn't happen, but even if we did play, we have no signals or anything. Obv not choppin profits. It isn't like I'm folding AA when the reg raises. We're basically just saying lets play straight forward against each other and play the fish normal. Happens all the time in games. Good players don't play against good players when there is easy money to be made. I probably shouldn't have said anything because people get their panties in a bunch over something that never happened.