I was at RA last night playing the 20/40. Guy had his queens cracked went on full tilt and threw 4-5 chips as hard as he could at the wall. Made in a few small holes and I'm guessing he isn't welcome there anymore, but just wondering if anyone else saw that.

I'm thinkin about headin out there this afternoon...

what are the average starting stacks like in the $2-10 spread and the $4-20 spread games?

most people i think usually buy in for around $200 in both games.

How often does the 20/40 go?

just got back from playing about 4 hours of $2-10 spread

Place was amazing... really liked the layout... there was no dealer delays with counting the tray or any misdeals of any sort when i was there.. game was pretty fishy... lots of people come in.. lost a rack of yellow and were gone in 30 minutes

Overall great room... one thing I didn't like was the cards... I'm a much bigger fan of the ones they use at Canterbury

last night they had 2 tables of 20-40 going.. every weekend that i am there lately it has been going. i am not there too much on the weekdays.

I played a couple times this weekend. I havent been there since the first few days after it opened and the dealing and management have improved significantly since then; however, there were numerous dealer errors. They were much faster and knowledgeable as a whole since opening week, but still a far cry from Canterbury or most of the good rooms in Vegas.

I played the tourney yesterday and there were at least a half dozen exposed cards (multiple dealers) in the 2.5 - 3 hours I lasted.

There were several times while I was playing 2/60 spread limit Friday night when someone would make a bet and there would be a raise of less than the bet amount. eg - dude 1 makes initial flop bet of 24, dude 2 makes raise of 20 to 44. I didnt say anything and the dealers let it slide each time. There were people also getting away with string bets. I think it was due to player inexperience, so I said nothing, but the dealers should be all over that stuff imo.

Again, they have improved a lot since they started and I expect that to continue, but the high number of exposed cards was very annoying.

Also, people were asking dealers various questions about tourney rules, other tourneys, and various other things. Usually when you hear questions about these kinds of things in Vegas, the dealers are very knowledgeable. The RA dealers seemed to be in the dark about everything other than dealing the cards.

string bets have to be called by the players at the table there. A dealer wont call a string bet unless someone else points it out first unless its brutally bad one i wouldnt think..

Speaking of $2/60.... I went bust the other day holding a flopped set of 6's to a maniacs turned 6 high straight holding a 2 4.... I mean who would fold 2 4 into a $24 raised pot with 2 other players without having put a chip in yet...and why would you fold a gutshot straight draw to max bet on the flop?...I loved the guys reasoning though..."I had to gamble...I don't want to sit here on a short stack" when in fact said maniac had the most chips at the table

Big Trent Tucker celeb NL tourney tonight, 7PM at RA.
Come see Michael Jordan, Marcel Luske and others and then hop in a cash game. That is what I will be doing.
Anyone know if they will have this tourney on the main cash game floor or in some other area like Canterbury always does?
It should be busy.

RA had a layoff recently as its poker business is apparently not good.

You must be talking about this:

http://www.startribune.com/business/27414304.html

It looks like they had some problems and losses with start up but I hope they will be fine.
The place is completely packed every time I am in there which is often. I am sure they need the card room to be profitable and they had to operate for 3 months without it when racing was starting which was probably most of the problem.

Some pics from the Trent Tucker Celebrity poker tournament.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2646211...54921543/show/

Not sure if anyone is interested, but here they are...

Cool picks, but whats with the MJ crotch shot?

you would be looking at his diamond braclet

There has been a 4-8 omaha high game going with a half kill to 6-12 game has been new you would think more people would want to play the four card game. 2-60 had four live tables , guy got up with six racks. scene some 400+ pots. only one 6-12 game and still have only scene one 8-16 game. Running aces is offering 5% rake on 6-12 limit and 8-16 limit till oct 31. the red chip game was 20-40 with half kill to 30/60. Bad beat is still 59,000+.

Yeah the Omaha high game seems to be the hot new thing there.
Has anyone been in there this week as I was wondering if this promotion for a lower rake in the 6/12 and 8/16 games has resulted in more, if any of these games getting going?

Hey guys, I'm down in the cities from up north. I am going to running aces today for the first time to play 2-60 assuming its running. Is it true that the 2 60 has been pretty soft? Thats what I was told by someone in my reg homegame and he isn't a very good player so I am hoping it is real soft. Either way I will TR it later.

Walleye,
The 2/60 has varied everytime I have played it.
It can be super juicy with loose donks calling $60 bets like they are nothing or full of tight/aggressive, decent guys playing tight waiting for the donks to show up.

Table selection is the key to finding a good, loose, juicy game.
If your game isn't this way, find one that is as they have many going now on weekend nights.
I'll be there tonight.

Hey Porkchop,

I went to RA the last to days 16.5 hour session on thursday and 10 hour yesterday. It was definetly the type of game I was looking for thursday and later in the night yesterday. Thursday, I got almost 2 buyins deep before my hands started holding, but when they did I started making people pay and ended up cashing out $980 from $400 in. Yesterday was up and down early, I was on table 19 I believe. It was the 2-60 game that started around 8 pm and broke sometime in the middle of the night and got moved to table with a few young guys. If you were there I may of saw you and not even known it. I had camo shorts, a blue shirt, a medium long goatee, and i'm about 6'2". Anyway the first table yesterday was up and down and didn't clear much headway, but when I got moved to the super aggro kids table I busted a couple of them and ended up making $285 profit. Overall, I really like RA. Good atmosphere, well set up. All the employees were very friendly and made it easy to relax. Good games and running all night as I was hoping. I just woke up from yesterdays session and I think I am gonna stop back for a few more hours before heading back up north. Also, just a bonus I played 2 shoes of blackjack betting quarters, made $300 and quit.

Latest RA thoughts,
Let it be known I love the place but it seems they need to streamline their tourney schedule. I was in there yesterday and they had all the cash games going plus an early cheap NL tourney, a late Omaha 8 tourney, Sit and Go's and HPT Sit and Go's all going at the same time. I guess if they get fishy players in it's good but it just gets very hectic and hard to keep up with everything going on. They also ignored the Sit and Go's as the 3PM O8 tourney was starting so I had to wait quite a while for one to start.

Do people think having tourneys (sometimes several) every day is a good thing or that this schedule will thin out as time goes on?

does anyone have any good insight as to how the $2-60 spread game plays? Does it play more like traditional $1/2 NL or does it turn into a $60/60 limit fiasco?

The 2/60 spread is usually a good game.
You can only buy in with $200 max so on new tables or before anyone accumulates lots of chips it plays pretty much like a 1/2NL. If some LAGS get a hold of lots of chips then they can get crazy loose with big ($60) calls or re-raises.

See what I wrote above about finding a good 2/60 game to sit at.

I thought I would bump this to see if anyone had been to RA recently?
I have been out of town but will be returning tonight for some 4/20 or 2/60 spread.
Have the games been plentiful and good?
Thanks All

I've been going there sporadically (got my first-ever table share on a bad beat jackpot table last weekend, wooo hoooo) and they seem to have worked out a lot of the early kinks. Far fewer dealer errors and they're getting better at filling tables when people are waiting on the board.

I'm a semi-mediocre player but have been running very, very well (small sample size so not statistically all that significant) at the 2/10 spread games there; are the bigger spread games as fishy as the 2/10 appears to be?