This is soo true.
For years before Running Aces was around Canterbury gave their players nothing but $1 and hour and the miniscule chance that they could hope to be part of a BB jackpot. RA gives soo many comps and bonus money to the players it's unbelievable. Between the mailer coupons and the $5 and hour I'm already ahead $50 before I even play a hand. Then you throw in free food coupons, all the splash pots and several aces cracked and nothing local compares.
The only reason I ever go to CP anymore is if I get the itch to play some bigger (8/16, 15/30) limit games.
I really do wish RA would get a few of these and eastside players should go play these at RA and get these juicy comps and promos.

This is exactly why I've been going to Canterbury more often these days. The bigger limits are beginning to be worth the extra drive and lack of comps for me.
Lately I've trying to start 4/8 lists at RA, but almost every time I do it gets taken down in about 10 minutes.

I go to Canterbury to:

1.play $2/$4 LHE, get drunk and troll at the table with a friend I don't see very often. (I always lose at 2/4, gotta be the toughest game ever to beat, imo.)

2. play $6/$12 LHE

Only reason they don't have any higher limit games at RA is that the guys that want to play these games are opting to play 5-60 rather than playing 8-16 and above.

This is part of reason the higher limit games like 6/12 and 8/16 don't go at RA but there is usually only one of these 5/60 games going on any given night. I still think RA should be able to get a 4/8 or 6/12 LHE game going once and a while. I will keep trying.

Lots of promo changes this month. That $10/hr from 10am-noon/4-6pm promo is now on Mondays as well as Wednesdays. Aces Cracked hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays have been expanded but the "Earn $5/hour on all live games Mon-Thus" now has an asterisk, $5/hr now no longer applies during Aces Cracked times. Mon-Thurs used to pay $5/hr for all of the 96 hours of Mon-Thurs but since it no longer applies the aces cracked times (four nights 1am-9am, Tuesdays 10am-10pm, and Thursdays 10am-8pm), those 96 hours have been reduced to 42 hours. It's not clear what if any hourly you do get for those hours. Back to the days of $1/hr or zilch?

7.5 a down is pretty good, id take that over raked pots. you win more than 3 pots an hour and you are coming out ahead. cheapest ive seen is $5/down in relation to the 200 +30 it sucks donkey as percentage of buy in.

Anybody play in the $235 Saturday tournament? How many people on average play in this?

I played a few weeks ago, it was just short of 40 people. I believe it averages 35-50. They changed the structure starting this year (added a bunch of levels and antes). The new structure is probably the best you'll find for a $200 tourny. I'm hoping it reaches 60+ players soon.

Yeah that would be nice if more people started playing on Saturday. The $180 tournament on Saturday morning at Canterbury gets about 80 people, last week it got 95. The $500 and $1k events at Running Aces are really good tournaments imo. I see they have one coming up on the 28th? I wonder how that will affect the 1k at Canterbury the following day? Aces is guranteeing 15k to winner which means they are expecting 120+ players. I plan to play both days but I hope in the future that each card room has their bigger tournaments on different weekends.

I'm thinking of playing a small tourney here.. maybe one of the $45 buy ins.. it would be my first time playing live.

Don't expect to be playing "poker" for too long, maybe up until the first break, and after that it becomes a shove-fest. Anyway, have fun and good luck.

Also, I played 2-60 today and this hand came up... I look down at 3s6s (after starting the hand up $120 after 1 hour of play) and limp from the cutoff with 5-6 others. Flop comes 3c 6c Jh, BB bets 8, I raise to 22, Button calls, as does BB. Turn: 2x. BB checks, I check and Button bets 60, BB calls and I call. River is a blank. BB checks, I check and Button bets max again, BB folds and I wait for a second and end up calling the 60 as he flips over 45 for the straight and scoops a $250+ pot

Anyway, was this the right play on my part? Do I make it $68 on the flop with the chance of one or both having 33, J6, or a large flush draw...? I probably just played it bad, but I wanted to know what you guys think?

First, I would likely have bailed preflop.

On the turn, the max bet with the deuce would likely have chased me and the max bet on the river with a brick would almost certainly have sent my cards to the muck, no need to turn the button into a big yellow mound.

Yeah you are probably right, I was maybe putting him on AJ, but Idk... just running bad as usual.

Played in the 4/8 O8 with a half-kill over christmas holiday and killed it. Apparently they spread the game pretty regularly. It's full of old regulars. Anyone who isn't a complete drooler at O8 should be able to crush this game fairly easily.

I am excited to play the $500 big stack tournament on saturday. this will be my most expensive buy-in for a poker tournament. does the skill level go up too much or are most of the players the same fish that play the $100 tournaments? also, any idea of how many players to expect? they are guarenteeing $15k for first which would mean they expect at least 100...

Just taking a look into the future, here is the schedule for the Spring Poker Classic

http://www.mnpokermag.com/wp-content...er-Classic.pdf

Looks like a great schedule of events!

Bet/fold the turn, I don't think you are ever raised there with a worse hand at 2-60. From my experience playing spread limit at runnin aces hardly anyone is capable of bluffing there.

What hand ranges would you suggest playing preflop in the 4/8 game?

Hey Folks, new to the forum and will be heading over to MN for about a month this summer. I know most juicy games are going on Fri-Sun but approximately:
-how many 2-60 or 5-60 games are going (during the week) from about noon-7pm?
-how many 2-60 or 5-60 games are going on Sat/Sun afternoons?
-how many 2-60 or 5-60 games are going on Sat/Sun evenings?
Many thanks guys

I would say to use the usual suspects: hands with strong low possibilities, esp. aces, esp double suited, possibly high pair as well, I got nut-nut on the turn with AA2Q double suited and callers on the river one time, and another where I was raised to 5 bets on the river while holding nut flush (no low) later that evening.

4/8 O8 wasn't going last night when I got there and there wasn't even an interest list, instead there was a 2-60 high-only Omaha game, which looks to be the closest equivalent they can offer to a 1-2 NLO - someone with a straight pushed me off a nut-flush draw with a max raise on the turn into a pot where the pot odds did not justify my chasing.

2-3 2-60s before noon each day.. 2/3 more after that

5-60 usually starts later in day

weekends 2-60s are juicy and more action

Holy S#@T. There was a 2-60 Omaha High game on Friday that was absolutely nuts!!!!!!!

Thanks DDawgster, appreciate the info