I did. On my second hand in the game I pick up the Ad4dAs5s. Pretty good hand - so I repot rko's open. Flop comes J44 and we get it all in. He had the 4567. I won a 3 bet pot against him later too. Good luck tonight if u play.

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the Friday 10-20 nl no cap at the O has a very short future imo. A lot of key players are already starting to pass on it/not show up. As much as I love that game, I think the 10-10 3k cap (which is on the board now) has a much better chance of survival. I could see that game going 5 days/week like it used to.


O-11's Friday 10-20 nl is stronger than ever. We've started before noon the past several weeks with the game filling quickly and staying full. By 4PM last Friday there were 6 or 7 active on the list, most of them bitching about how bad it was in the 5-5 main game. One of them paid $130 for a seat in the 10-20 which might have been worth it considering how good that game was.

hey all, i moved to SD recently and have been playing at Palomar a couple times a week in the 2/3 NL game, mostly b/c i live close but i kind of like the place, too. just wanted to drop in and and say hi to all the san diegan's. if anyone else plays this game let me know so i can say hi.

I play this as well as the 5/5.
There most days-at least twice a week have a Chelsea or Germany jersey on

drunken gambly must be a term for just loose action since Barona doesn't serve booze except for a couple of restaurants with pretty tight restrictions.

I also heard at Viejas that players were complaining of smoke coming from the gaming floor. Anyway the room upstairs is still good. I played at Sycuan the other night and it's not as good as Viejas. The class of people are horrid and we had this idiot lady at our table straddling every hand and losing alot then when she won she slow rolled every time. Their tourneys are weaker too. Viejas much better.

I went to Pala the other day to play their 100 dollar tourney wed night for their first annual pala poker open. What a nice facility but the night cash action sucked. One table!

Heard there might be some good action at Pala due to their big tourney series, so I went out there last night. Stacked off two people on my third hand in the game with AJ from the SB in an unraised pot. Flop comes A35. 5 way action checks around. Turn J. I bet and get called in two spots. River J. I lead out 3/4 pot, 1 caller, then the player in position makes a huge raise, so I ship it and get 2 calls (I covered both). MP had flopped a set of 5s and LP had flopped a wheel. Nice poker playing, guys.

Anyway, it was a fun night as they started up a 5/10 stud hi game with Tom Mcevoy and mike matusow. It might have been my 3rd time ever playing the game , but I ran hot. After a bit I thought I'd toss out the idea of adding in another game since the pots seemed on the smallish side. Somehow we decided on PLO. Pots were immediately 4 times bigger! Anyway, did well in the game and had fun playing with those guys.

After that game broke, went back to the nl game, which was very weak. Ended up in the game being very active, but not by much - haha. They forced me to bluff a lot due to their propensity to check call. My favorite was a check call on a board of 2JT-K-9. He obv had to c/c the river with his monster, the J high straight (holding 78). I lost another hand to the same villian when he ran down my set with a7o on the T89-6-K. He got max value by checking the river (which I checked back), but then he slow rolled the F out of it. I had to emphatically check like three times before he would table his hand.

I couldn't wait for what might come.....

Called a raise on button with A3hh. Flop a pair / flush draw on the 634hh flop. Call a bet from villian. Checks thru on the 5c turn. River is Th giving me the nuts. I bet to look bluffy and he called. I reluctantly showed my 3 and he quickly rolled his A4o. Whoopsie, there's another heart under there. Love to get called by 3rd pair on a 4 straight/ flush board. I guess I had an active image ! Haha.

I'm talking about the future of the game. I don't think the player pool at the 10-20, no cap level in that area is large enough to support it long-term. And when the few key players for that game go broke/lose interest, the game will likely dry up quickly.

The biggest steady nl game O11 has is 5-5, 300-1500 buyin. It seems more logical to me to make the next biggest game 10-10, 600-3k buyin. This will seem a lot less intimidating to the 5-5 players and will have a good chance of becoming a regular game due to a steady influx of new players and no one "getting hurt" by losing a 30k pot or whatever...

I was there on Friday. I got there at 10 pm but didn't get a seat until 2 am. The wrong guy got busted within 20 minutes and magically everyone decide it was time to go home (or to another game). This is how fickle games that seem too big for a cardroom often tend to be.

HG used to have what appeared to be a very healthy 10-20 uncapped a couple years ago. The key players inevitably got bludgeoned and the game dried up completely. It wasn't until they put a 3k cap on the game that it started going again. It's not the healthiest of games nowadays, but at least it goes somewhat regularly.

For the record, I really hope I'm wrong about all this. I just live close to the O and would love to play brown chips on a regular basis. Thanks.

chilidog is a 7-card stud luckbox!! the true irony was that we were discussing joe cada at the time...

dgaf-
i think you are probably right about the life expectancy of the uncapped game at O11. though it has brought new people into the room, it will probably cause people to go broke too fast. i like your idea of a $3k -$4k cap with 10/10 blinds. maybe $5k cap to differentiate it from the palomar game.

also,
i think O11 management can be receptive to the regular players and their ideas about potential changes. they worked with us and implemented some changes in the PLO game based on our suggestions. they very well might listen to you or a group of 10/20 regs on the subject.

haha....yes it was lucky to get such strong hands during stud, but i didn't luckbox my way into a set. i already had trip 5s in that hand vs. McEvoy when he called, called, lead on 7th. but yes, in the span of like 40 hands, i made an ace high flush, broadway, and had two pair like 4-5 times.

I talked to Chuck about it and he seemed to agree with me, so he put an interest list for 10-10, 3k on the board. However, neither of us want to step on the toes of the early birds who start the 10-20 on Fridays. So idk...

And God bless Tom McEvoy. He was "coaching" this rich dude one night in an uncapped Trash Talk game at the Hard Rock. He was sitting behind him, sweating his cards and offering advice after every hand. If you were in a hand against the guy, both him and Tom would stare you down. It was lol to say the least. Guy lost like 25k.

Gents,
I'm looking to play $1/2 NLHE at O11 this weekend in North SD. But having read your posts, I think I'm better off going to Legoland! LOL!

Just curious...how would a regular player from HG do versus a regular player at O11? (At my humble level of course).

For whatever reason, I think a reg from HG will get killed by a reg from Commerce. Or even... how does O11 compare to Pechanga on Sat mornings?

Thanks!
I'll remind myself to stay clear of any tables higher than $3 blinds.

First - no 1/2 at Oceans. There's a 1/1 $40 max and a 2/2 $100 max game. At the $40 max game, I don't think it's as wild as Commerce, but it's still a hold on to your pants and take the variance train. My wife recently got AA on first hand at the table, popped it to $12pf, was three bet to $24 which was called, and moved all in and got two callers. The other two hands? AKo and J9o. Typical play at a $40max table. (AK rivered a straight to beat J9's lower straight). For what it's worth, at Pechanga there's at least a little postflop play at the 1/2 table.

you'll do fine. low limits are still low limits. as long as you can adjust to who's at your table and quickly learn who you may want to stay away from.

as somebody just posted, there's no $1/$2. there's $1/$1 with a $40 max which sucks. don't play it. There's $2/$2 with a $100 max. This one is okay. then there's $2/$3 (I think it's a $2/$3 but I can't really remember as I haven't been there in a while) with I think a $300 max.

I've played the $2/$2 and the and the $2/$3 and to be honest, I didn't necessarily think that the entire table was really any better or wore than anywhere else I've ever played. You will get a player or two that is good and as long as you can figure out who that is then you're golden. The thing about O-11 is that there are a ton of regulars that play there. But that doesn't necessarily mean that just because they're regulars that they're any good!

The level of crazy in the game depends greatly on who's there. I've seen $1$1 games where nobody had less than $300 on the table which basically means it's all-in with 5 callers pre on most hands! and I've seen them where it's a total limp fest and a min raise on the button will take it down. it just depends.

Thanks gwjones00 and mfpaul for the heads up! O11 low limits sounds a whole lot like HG low limit!! I suppose that is mixed bleesings depending if your AA and KK actually holds up when you raise 6BB and get 5 callers. LOL!

The other interesting similarity to HG is that just because they are reg, does not mean they are good. Makes me wonder how they last for so long? Maybe they have a rich Uncle. LOL.

Raise 6bb with AA? One game there I raised allin pre-flop with AA and had 5 callers. Of course the K5s won when he rivered the flush....

If you're going to play the low limit, just try to get on a table where everyone doesn't have stacks of chips. Then go after the weak passive players....

I might be taking a trip down to San Diego for the weekend, and I saw that Sycuan is having a Labor Day tournament. Anyone have any idea about the structure (I assume it won't be very good) and how many runners it will get?

haven't played a live tourney in a while... was going to hit one up on saturday... dont' care where... any advice on structure / decent roi on payouts?

i was thinking o11's 10am, but i'm open to whatever... i've mostly played at barona out here, occasionally a limit o8 game at o11... thanks in advance

PLO game has been running strong at oceans 11 on Fridays. Game on!
1/2 blinds , $5 to come [.......], $500 max.

I just moved to town and I amazed of the size of the limit mixed game they spread at palomar. Seems like they are playing 300-600 to 500-1k constantly. That's got to be one of the biggest games being spread regularly anywhere in the country right now no? Just weird they would have such huge action at such a small poker room like that

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Clayton,

Is the 5-10 nl still going everyday?

What time does it usually get decent?

How often does straight 10-20 nl go?

Thanks

5/10 is going everyday, starts early afternoon, idk how early cuz im not around at that time. maybe 1pm? idk

tonight supposedly there was 2 tables going and crazy action. the day before it was dead. its pretty sporadic after dinner time.

10/20 straight isnt going. 10/20 PLO is tho.