I know that it has gone at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks. I believe last night the game was 7handed. It is my understanding that the game is driven by 3-4 guys who come in together and ask to get it started, and RA has been very accommodating.

I think weve played it 4 times... they are pretty good about it, basically let us do what we want with the game, within reason obviously. We are pretty patient with dealers (most are competent enough), there has been talk by bicyclekick and schneids of maybe trying to set it up to play the game a specific day of the week in the future, since i will be going back to school eventually. They would be the guys to contact about the game running in the future (september onwards)

It has been a lot of fun, and way more interesting than just playing holdem all the time.

Time to do some fund-raising.

I don't quite understand why everyone is complaining about horrendous players in the spread games. Shouldn't you be having a fun time cleaning up in those games? Then let the rest of the clueless grinders fiddle each other for hours in the limit games over a measly bet or two?

It just seems to me that the key to winning at poker is to find worse opponents and then beat them, not to find worse opponents and then avoid them.

Are you equivocating pokerbob? lol He knows everything. He also has nice jogging suits.

PB,

The avatar is disconcerting. I've no idea who it is, but to me it doesn't mesh with your internet persona, (not that my opinion on the subject matters - just sayin'.)

close, he knows more than most people do that have posted in this thread so far but to my knowledge he doesn't have nice jogging suits. Just because someone is abrasive doesn't mean you should dismiss his opinion, Bob is someone you should be paying attention to - he is usually right when it comes to poker topics.

PS: thanks for making it easy on us, your account almost slipped by while we were not watching. Welcome to Bansville USA, population - BigBuffet.

Wrong Bob, not equivocating, do you know what is going on in this thread?

I dunno -- it's been a few weeks sinve I've been to RA, but unless the 2-10 games have changed a lot there are still plenty of fish there....plenty of spewing fish.
LOL @ this -- what could be more fun than tilting those guys????

Some guy asked me why i fiddled with my chips so much -- apparently it bothered him. I told him that if i didn't fiddle with my chips I played too many hands.

ESPN-guy looks up and practically splutters, "Dude, you've played just about every hand." He was ready to ****. I loved it.

There's no "demand" from there on 2+2 but I felt the need to point out that Deadwood, South Dakota often has spread-limit as well, primarily due to similar state law as in Arizona "disallowing" NL (in actuality a law allowing a $100 max bet that they only skirt around when running tournaments with >$100 buy-ins).

The "big game" over there is a 10-100 spread that's scheduled for a few times a week.

Good one....

The first few times I was there the players were horrible but by my forth trip I was surrounded by nits and rocks.

Could've been the time of the day, not sure but I didn't like my table or any of the 2-10 that were running.

This is incorrect. I was at Bay 101 a few weeks ago and the 5-200 is alive and well, with a long Friday night wait. The max buy-in is $200 with a terrible blind structure (3/5, with 2 on the button). Despite the bad blind structure, there is so much aggresion from the young internet kids that if you are patient and wait for a big hand, you will get paid off (and when they go broke they just pull out the wallet and reach for more Benjamins).

I believe the bigger spread limit game there is a 5/10/5 on the button game with a $1000 max buy-in. Not as many tables as the 5-200 but there still seemed to be a healthy wait list. Additionally, limit games are able to coexist successfully with the spread games.

Also, I believe two other card rooms in the Bay Area, Garden City and Lucky Chances, also offer big spread limit games due to the local gaming laws that prohibit no-limit games.

My guess is that if you're new card room increases the spread to make it more like no-limit it will be a better game. I'd love to check out both rooms, but my trips to MPLS are always for business and not for pleasure.

Disregard the first sentence: "This is incorrect". I didn't mean to come off like an ass.

I actually wasnt sure, I hadnt heard of a big spread game running so I assumed it was dead, but I wouldnt consider any game with a 200 max buy in to big.

I value Pokerbob and others opinion about spread limit and what it can do to the fixed limit games but I also realize that they are somewhat biased as fixed limit is their bread and butter game which they want to protect.

I also reject the statement that if you like to play spread limit because you enjoy it and are profitable at it that you are a bad player. Some others have made great comments about how really bad players will cold call max raises preflop when there is no way they should or chase a terrible draw after someone makes a max bet postflop in a limped pot. These huge mistakes in fixed limit are magnified in spread limit and lead to bigger and more consistent profits for me in that game.

I like to play fixed, spread and even no limit sometimes. I think they are all just different and require different skills to be great players. I do hope that RA can have both fixed and spread coexist in the same room because I would like the option to play either when I choose but I don't know if that can work long term.

I was in there for the first time on Friday.

Agree with prior comments regarding food relative to CP. I thought the dealers were good; I only saw one really bad one, a couple were very good. Nicer atmosphere, more space, great chairs. Very good cocktail service. I'm sure those plasma screens are big, but in a room that size they all seem way to small and far away.

When I first got there at noon on Friday, there was a tourney in progress and a handful of cash games (one table of 3/6, two or three 2-10's, I think one 4-20, one 8/16). Pretty disappointing. I know it was noon on a weekday, but still....

But things just gradually kept picking up. The last time I checked the board was about 11pm. From best recollection: Half a dozen 2-10's going. A couple of 4-20's. Two tables of 4/8. One 8/16. Just a list for 6/12. A full 4/8 O/8 with a list. There was a 15/30 (can't remember if it was one table or two) and a 30/60. A handful of 3/6's and a few 2/4's. I didn't take notes or count for empty tables but I think that about covers it.

I know that Friday night is as good as it get for just about any room, but judging just from that, unless you just had your heart set on playing 6/12 instead of 4/8 or 8/16, there was something for everyone. I didn't stick around into the graveyard hours to see how long it took to get back to the lots of 2-10 and not much of anything else place that things had started at noon.

From that one visit, it's seemed pretty clear that the spreads are the bread and butter of the room, and someone who wants to put in serious hours there needs to like playing them. I don't think I saw anyone come into any of my FL games from a spread game, and I did see a couple of people taking immediate seating in an FL to wait until they got a spread seat. I doubt that will be good for long term health of the room, but I guess we're about to find out.

What's the game selection like on a regular weeknight or dayshift?

I was there on wednesday, mid day and they had a big tourney going and a few sit and go's plus one 2/4 one or two 3/6 and a couple of 2/10 and I think one other game, 4/60 or somethink like that. They did start a omaha game, But i do not know the stakes. I played 2/4 for fun, had a good time and had a couple of good dealers. Made a little money and that is all I go for. Could have made more, but had the lower full house two times.

cp only had 3 tables going last time i went.

strange. i was there last night and all day today and they probably had 10-20 games going the whole time. ( with the low-end occuring early AM)

When? I find this almost impossible to believe, regardless of the existence of RA.

Was anyone at RA last weekend?
If so can we get an update on the number of 6/12, 8/16 LHE vs 2/10 and 4/20 spread limit they had going on Friday and Saturday nights?

Also, I am playing the Sat 10:30AM Deep Stack NL tourney this weekend so if anyone has any info on how many they usually get or anything else I would appreciate it.

Thanks All!

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it had to be 4 am on a tuesday (if at all)

Probably right. When I walked in at about 6am this Tuesday there were two games... 2/4 (maybe it was 3/6) and 6/12. Actually, scratch that- it was Wednesday. But it does happen occasionally. More because of Summer and golf than because of RA, IMO.