i don't take much for pictures.

Just open a free photobucket account and upload them from your computer into there. then you just copy and paste from there.

Another mini trip-report: I played in Saturday's customer appreciation freeroll ($10K prize pool). There were 107 entrants. By the time we were down to about 50 left, people were already (only half-jokingly) talking about a 50-way deal. When we were down to 42 players there was near-unanamity on a 42-way deal ($7,000 split 42 ways, then play down to the remaining extra $2K for first place and $1K for the second place finisher). 41 in favor, but one guy vetoed it. I got knocked out in 30th place, that one guy will still playing, don't know how it finished up.

Those who play Omaha there know that a $4/8 hi-lo table (or maybe two of them) is quite common but one of the guys in the freeroll tourney mentioned to me that the day before he was involved in a short-handed 2/60 spread-limit Omaha hi-lo game there. RA management is more than willing to set up a table for whatever type of game they can fill provided that dealers and interested players are available. Yeah, holdem is 98% of what's played there but the place is definitely open to suggestions.

i think ur vastly exxaggerating how close it came to a deal with 42 players left, maybe it was the guy at my table who said no?? cuz once he said no, no one else even bothered replying since it obv wasnt happening anyways, and i know a couple of players would of definetely said no. It was sort of chopped at 10 players although it didnt change much, 4th to 10th recieved $550, 3rd was 1050, 2nd was 2,050 and 1st was 3,050.

I ended up in 6th i made a pretty bad play on the final table, I was just finishing up a 17 hour session but thats much of an excuse imo, esp since it was a final table.

Well, I certainly didn't poll each player but as far as anyone at my table knew, it was 41-1. But I guess it was maybe that some who might have said no just didn't say anything after it had already been vetoed.

Strange deal at the end there. 1st was for $3K but people agreed to the chip leader getting more than that without playing it down????

Yeah i didnt make myself very clear, we played out the tourney(just with that slight change to the prize structure), i dont know who won though i left after i busted 6th.

well basically the deal was originally set up to include 11 but one guy didnt want to accept the deal till they were down to 10 players, so once it was down to 10 there was an extra 500 not allocated and everyone had 50 added to their payout. i.e. 550 instead of 500, 3050 instead of 3000.

Another observation about RA:
Since the place opened, I have wondered why there hasn't been any adds on print, TV or radio about RA and here just recently on KFAN and other radio stations I have started to hear a lot of adds for RA which should be good for getting more people up there.
I think by now the hard core, regular card players know about RA but the adds, along with the harness racing starting again in May could be good for increasing the fish factor in the coming months.
Your thoughts on this...

Agree. I'm going up there tonight for the PLO8 tourney, hopefully I can get these old people to fire bullets because there is one rebuy. I'm finally off tilt from being slowrolled in a $1100 pot in Iowa this past weekend! FU second nuts!

Any ideas on how many people will show up for this?

Almost 40 last time, it's hard for me to say with PLO8.

There were 35 for sure last night, maybe close to 40... not sure on the exact count. The dealers were horrible, they didn't know how to count the pots or split them up correctly in the PLO8 tourney. Round 3 my table spent 15 of the 20 mins calling over the floor multiple times to figure out how much of the pot goes to certain individuals. It was a lot of fun and juicy, but the dealers pretty much killed that tourney last night. I hope they do this tourney again, but they need to let you have the add-on at the start of the tourney, not when you bust out. If you didn't have your "rebuy" slip on you when you busted, you were out of the tourney and if wanted to rebuy, you had to pay the full price for the tourney. Also the blind structure is brutal imo, doubles every 20 mins. I think in round 7 or so, people pretty much had 10 BB at most unless they were really deep stacked. 5 way chop for first, $545 each. I may have been one of those people who chopped. I didn't play in the 2/60 game but 2 of my friends did, said it was pretty soft last night. All the Asians were out last night too, I wonder if there are any left playing at Canterbury!

Ace™

I can comfirm... YES.

I felt like I was in little Chinatown yesterday, though none of them play O8. I guess they're all hold'em experts playing their bad Axo....

I'll be at RA in a few hours for another busy Friday night playing 2/10.
Let's play some cards!!!!!

I wish I could make it, but less than 2 weeks til Vegas for me!

it was extremely busy this friday, was up to like 5-6, 2/60 spread tables which is what i usually play. This was the definetely the highest i have ever seen it at. The room definetely seems to be gaining in popularity.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, PLO tourney on April 23rd. This should be pretty entertaining watching the old farts playing Omaha high.

Lol, did you see they actually got a HOE 2/60 spread game going last weekend?


I was there last night and they where WAY short-handed in the waiter/waitress department, I think they had like 2 on for all the 12-13 poker tables going.

No I missed that, but if I knew that HOE game was going on I'd be there. I don't how on earth you could play spread Stud8, that would just be messed up. Wow just thinking about it some more, you could really jam people on 4th street for $60 and that would be sick action for any sucker 4 to a low vs 2 pair/fd/etc. SICK SICK SICK

FWIW, when I was there a couple of nights ago one of the dealers mentioned that the were planning on having two Omaha tournaments a month (one limit-OH8, the other PLO).

But they change their tournament schedule frequently, so take that with a grain of salt.

Yeah I hear ya. The PLO8 tourney was a complete disaster. They dealers did not know how to divide multi-way pots at all, and many many other mistakes. It was brutal, that's part of the reason why I chopped...it was a long ass night and I just wanted to get out of there. PLO should be a lot easier for them, hopefully they sit down and correct some of their mistakes.

Ace™

Ace did you also ever play in the limit Omaha 8 H/L tourney they get going up at RA?
Does that run any smoother than the pot limit?

It must be nit city in that tourney with all the RA O8 old men regulars from that 4/8 game.
There is probably also some really bad players as well though that have no idea how to play O8 at all right?
I might try this one next Thursday

Yeah I played in the limit O8 tourney a few weeks ago as well, pretty much the same players and it was really soft...almost final tabled that one as well. And yes the limit O8 is way smoother than the pot limit O8. I really don't think they'll have a PLO8 tourney again until the dealers get some more experience imo. The field is really old, seriously it's like Seniors Day Out. There are 2 old guys who actually play pretty well but you can tell when they have A2x or A3x 'cause they really jam the pot(for me personally I'd rather limp or flat call to hid my strength and jam on turn and river). There are also a few women regulars who are horrible. I had one lady mow me down with a possible flush on the board and she had a 76 low, no flush. People rarely play for the high, so I find it easier to steal, this was especially the case in the PLO8 tourney. Overall it's a fun tourney and if you're a decent O8 player you will make scores in it over time. I won't be playing in it next week, I'll be in Vegas....but I'll be playing in the PLO tourney for sure. We should get a H.O.S.E game going, like 4/8, 6/12 or even 8/16....I need my mixed game fix!

PorkchopDJG was able to pick me out of the crowd (must have been the I'm 6'4" and look like a cross between a donkey and a fish description) and introduce himself to me for a bit of 2p2/poker discussion last Friday evening.

The place was packed. Every single table was in action and they were even making the 2/4 tables (3/6 also?) 10-handed that night instead of the usual 9-handed.

They've lately been having some games running that they usually don't have there like 8/16 LHE and 6/12 half-kill OHL8. But as typically, about half the tables running at any time will be some level of spread-limit holdem.

I also played a short session there on Saturday and then drove over to the Turtle Lake casino for some 1/2 NL. They had five tables of it running when I got there around 4:30. I played about five hours, ended up a rack, then took a break from poker to play some blackjack. I don't make it to Turtle very often so didn't realize they have S17 rather than H17. I played about four hours at one of the low stakes tables and did very, very well. At one point some guy sat down at my table started betting the table max at three spots and blew through $2000 in about 15 minutes. Went back to play some more 1/2 NL at about 1am. They still had two tables going at that point but by about 2am it was down to just one table. RA hasn't killed Turtle but it's certainly hurt it. The Turtle Lake poker room is now "temporarily" closed on Mondays.

I used to play TL quite often, but I stopped playing because all of the locals. There was some soft playing and collusion. It was just a long ass drive after awhile, if I play any NL right now I play in the different casinos in Iowa(1/2 and 2/5 NL are way soft). I've seen a few of the regulars who play up at TL play in a few of the tourneys at Diamond Jo's in Northern Iowa. IMO, most of the TL guys play really crazy. If they're not up playing NL, they're down at the craps and blackjack table. My $.02

Haven't been down to Diamond Jo's yet. Might have to try it some weekend when my son's staying with his gradparents.

As much as I prefer poker, I've lately had way better results at blackjack. Yes, I know, concentrating on results is bad, especially with a high-varience game like blackjack.

FWIW, from what I've seen, the poker and blackjack subcultures are quite different. BJ players seem as a whole to be much more superstitious. And a large percentage of them don't even use basic strategy. Casinos must love them.