I got the bacon cheeseburger at caribbean; about 1/2 the bacon was perfect, the other was solid was a rock. The beef had a lovely char taste; if they had taken the patty off the grill like 30 seconds earlier it would've been amazing.

I can only contrast the service to aces lakewood, which has the worst servers I've ever met. One dropped my toast on the floor, apologized, yet didn't replace it; goofus in particular ignored my repeated requests for a diet; gallant at caribeean gave me a diet right after placing my order.

Also they have mannys on tap, the happy hour deal is decent. I'm very curious as to the prime rib deal on Fridays, might be worth the trip for a lark.

people may have gotten shadier at Fortune since I stopped playing there, no idea.

edit: Note to self, next time some jagoff makes 'he doesn't play hands' nonsense, either say:

a) I'm sorry sir, are these your chips? No? I'll play how I like then, how about that
b) Give me some chips and I'll play however you want
c) you suck and are lame

The prime rib sounds amazing, please report back when you’ve had a chance to try it?

Have always loved Carribean’s food. Sometimes I show up from out of town and the food is poorly prepared and the waitresses disappear for 40 min chatting away at the bar because management has been lax for years. Not to the level of your hilarious story of dropping toast on the floor and not re- making it rude just lol but annoying. One longtime waitress there is professional and great and also absolutely beautiful and I dream of her majesty and I think she’s subtly the only reason I want to eat there anymore.

Last time I took the beautiful drive up to Marysville and found the 1/3 $500 cap game deep stacked and full of action at Jamestown and also the kitchen quite good. However I hate rooms where dealers can grind after shifts, and you tip a dealer generously for hours and then after his shift he sits down with a full rack of $500 and tries to take your money. Also why I hate playing in a certain Portland room.

I get that forced propping sucks huge for them when they have to do that and sit in an awful game to keep it a float, they deserve a chance to play in good games too if they are forced to play, but I don’t really enjoy playing with employees. Otherwise highly recommend a drive up there.

Yes, very true for an All in. But in this case the bet is either a) what the dealer says he heard the better say. (Hidden chips mean nothing) b) what the dealer counts of the stacks put forward. (Tech I guess there could be hidden chips, esp is the dealer doesn't actually break down and count the physical bet. But that is a real stretch with the stacks bet pushed forward.)

The only realistic way I can see that the dealer statement would not matter is if the dealer declared the verbal bet exceeded what the better had on the table. But that doesn't seem to apply in this case.

Thanks for the tip on the Jamestown Saloon! Menu looks good, chowder, home made chicken tendies, etc.

I wonder if they offer a poker discount on food?

I heard of the place, and actually drive past there a few times a year, as I have kin in the Stanwood area.

And as someone who's looking to purchase a home this year , that adds a positive for that area!

Checking their calendar, they have an O8 tourney every Thursday at 11am?!?!?

Karaoke, DJ, and live music! What am I waiting for?!?!?

Went to play at fortune as it was on my way back from but lines were up the wazoo and no high hand which makes the promo drop incredibly painful rake so I called up Ace’s Mountlake and they have high hands until midnight and that’s General area where I’m going after anyway

I hate the high hand promo but it’s insane to play that $4 promo drop if you basically need a royal to get any of it back so no thanks

One of the weirdest things about this area is everyone seems to be ok with it and nobody thinks $4 promo drop is either rake or bad - when I explain that it doesn’t just all go back because they take a 10% admin fee and pay in cash not chips I’m told I’m wrong until the dealer confirms (no we do take 10% because the state mandates it)

Just left but I’m the tall white way east coast douchebag that usually plays wearing a blazer if anyone wants to say hi in the future

Played with a circuit grinder was hoping was one of you guys but this place is just for old farts now

how did the douchebag get all them chips?

If you're at Ace’s Mountlake and not stocking up at WinCo you're missing out on tons of EV

I saw that Maverick filed for bankruptcy Expect big changes for poker in WA

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From the Maverick Gaming website:

"We regret to announce the closure of four of our locations: Dragon Tiger Casino in Mountlake, Palace Casino in Lakewood, Silver Dollar Renton, and Roman Casino in Seattle."

Playing at Caribbean

Fun table

No limps ever

3! And 4! Are standard

Table spot left though

As I typed this someone straddled to 10 it got bumped to $40 and got 4 callers

Stack is gone kk<aa in the straddle

dragon tiger has been closed for months.

expect more.

Aipf

Is Eric Persson still splashing around in high stakes games? How does this work with chapter 11 or whatever?

The state doesn't mandate 10%. 10% is the cap for the administration fee. Any cardroom could take less.

https://app.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.a...5-390&pdf=true

State regulations: See this pile of money over here? You can have some, and you don't really have to do anything to deserve it, but you can only take up to 10%.

Cardroom: 10%?! No, that's too much. We'll only take 5%, that's plenty.

State regulations: Are you sure? It's free money. You don't even have to pay taxes on it because it's not revenue.

Cardroom: We really like our customers and want to return as much of their money to them as possible. 5% will be just fine.

ahh it seems the card rooms have misinformed me - doubt it was nefarious - probably that's what the guy himself was told

btw i'm gone for a month so the games should be pretty awful until the end of august

People who work in the poker trenches have often never read the WAC.. Nor do they understand why a rule is used... That's up to crusty old dudes who remember...

I don't hold it against them but it does get annoying from time to time when they want to talk about their knowledge of poker. Or make a bad ruling cause it feels better. (my favorite).

Facilitators of abstraction, should be asking more questions rather than giving answers which have no basis... And they actually have no knowledge for... Obviously.

As far as the not taking 10% the only point I make is that most poker players are gambling... So would you rather play the slot that pays 95% or 90% back to the players... Poker players used to be sort of a cut above other gamblers, maybe I'm wrong-but I'm not so sure anymore...

Overall taking less could be a selling point for an upstart business... Maybe not in Seattle where things are ridiculously expensive, but certainly in smaller markets over at the middle and eastern parts of the state.

That's more than 2 cents... So I'm going to **** off to obscurity.

Any casino in Seattle city or port area with slots and Video Poker ?

I'm planning a rare poker night Saturday. I've only played at Aces in the area once or twice a year or two ago, and am assuming I'll go back there. Any reason to check out another spot? (I'm coming from NE Seattle (Ravenna) so Aces is closest, LMK though if there's another place worth an extra 15 or 20 min drive?

nope, you got it right.

Happen to be in Sequim, and 7 cedars is holding a $300 donkument Sat 23.

No idea what the rake is, no guarantee listed which is lame, but I'm gonna try and run it up vs clallam county's finest!

If any 2p2ers happen to be there,happy to offer a bizzzowl in the parking lot

Prize pool was over 10k. Didn't get many hands; round 4 had big slick that didn't work out for 1/2 of my stack, then ran AQs into QQ.

95% over 65 years old