Never played around here on the weekend after thanksgiving. Are rooms pretty full or are a lot of people out of town?

I've played at Muckleshoot on Thanksgiving night for the past two years and they were surprisingly busy. Not "super Sunday" busy but they had more tables going than I thought they would.

I can't really remember noticing any big difference either way around town for the rest of the weekend.

When are the best days to play at Tupalip? Is there a BBJ.

any info is much appreciated

Likewise. I've played on thanksgiving as well around here. Always busy.

^^ thanks to both.
Anyone been to Tulalip over the last few days and can confirm the redecoration is done/ tv's are back on the walls? I called and was informed it would be finished yesterday or today but you know how that goes.
Happy Thanksgiving Seattle! (best holiday, imo)

FYI to anyone following legalization of online poker...

A Tulalip tribe Chairman, Glen Gobin, is in opposition to online gaming and spoke before a Senate Committee hearing on the subject last week.

http://www.pokernewsreport.com/india...ine-poker-6038

The strength of the tribal lobby in our state suggests that it would be an opt out state. ugh

Then everyone who wants the ability to play online needs to speak up. Unless you'd rather be pumping gas, which Margarita Prentice would have you do instead.

My fear is that, in the event of a federal system, our state will still be the only state that explicitly outlaws playing online.

Agreed, I have written letters to everyone who supposedly represents me from the King county executive Dow Constantine on up to Cantwell and Murray. Drops in an ocean sure but it beats sitting on my hands. The tribal lobby is very powerful on this issue.

Friday/Saturday is the best time to go, Thursday can be pretty good because of the tournament as well.

Tulalip has three separate BBJs: holdem, omaha and stud. I have no idea when stud was last played there though. The qualifier for holdem is quad 8s and for omaha is quads 10s. Both cards have to play. The holdem jackpot can get pretty high, I've seen it get up to 180k and I haven't played there that much.

Atara is correct, you wanna go there Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Most other days it's pretty dead up there.

What is the biggest and best poker room in the Seattle area?

BBJ ($40kish)at Muck got hit early this morning. Three of the table sharers were lucky enough to have gotten there minutes earlier via a broken table.

I think biggest as in number of tables has to go to Muckleshoot.

As to best, that's a little more subjective. What in particular are you interested in? I don't think there's any single room around here that is better than all the others in every respect.

I'm only interested in 2/5 NL

Which Seattle area Casino has the most 2/5 NL tables?

^^Tulalip imo.

Let me know when you'll be around Seattle. I want to be there to watch the professional 2/5 player going to work.

Not anytime soon, but I plan on being there in May.

Hopefully you have the balls the sit at my table

I assumed that the whole weekend would be busy. Friday was DEAD. Not only fewer tables, but the place was a morgue. Having the BBJ go down probably didn't help, but it really feels like there are less players these days.

Speaking of- a few of the dealers were talking about 'big new changes' in promotions and jackpots and such coming in January. Anyone have any inside sources at Muck that might know what we can expect?

Tulalip was crazy on Friday/Saturday. Lots of games and super good action.

I went up to Shoreline last night. I went in to hollywood to see if they had 2-100 and George told me that all they had was 2-20 and 2-40 w overs which they seem to do regularly in the main game now. I asked him if they were still raking 4+2 (even though i knew they were) and then just left.

I headed over to Parkers and they had two tables of 8/16 a table of 4/8 and one 2/8 spread. Played some 8/16 and talked to some people i hadn't seen in forever. Their pit game section is closed down but according to Nathan, Diana etc the owners are trying to sell but have a five year lease and they say poker alone is enough to keep the room open. They all seem hopefull that things will be resolved and the room will remain open. Also, they were raking 3+2.

If WA has its way and we get opted out, and all the local rooms create low stakes games that are unbeatable i can see my casino days heading towards an end. Why wouldn't they rake the living daylights out of those games? It's either them or the winning players who get the money. Why share it with the winning players when they can drive them away and have a nice player pool for whom poker is a diversion from blackjack?

I have thought about looking in to creating a poker or card "club" somewhere in the city. Offer rake free (player dealt or dealers work for tips only) poker and charge monthly dues to all the members to pay the rent and sell beer/wine/soda & snacks to that end. Someone told me once that as long as you aren't raking games for profiit you don't need a casino license but that's entirely anecdotal and im not sure if that's even remotely true. Still if such a thing was possible id be more than happy to invest in getting it off the ground and id bet the lure of rake free poker would draw a crowd. /end daydream.

Who are you, Burro? PM me...

I have almost certainly run into Burro before. I think I have an idea but I'm probably wrong.

2-5 at snoqualmie on friday/satruday is the juiciest game around imo

A sad but true post, EL Burro Loco. I don't know whom fought for our right to have home poker here, but I imagine it was a different time and the game wasn't under the attack it has been under now.

By the way, you all get the email from the PPA about taking applications for a WA PPA State director? It's at least nice to see them acknowledge how ****ed we are here and try and commit a little effort to try and help us help ourselves. I hope we get a good one to take this on, as at least he/she will have some support from the PPA.

I am curious what happened to Lee Rousso though. I wrote both Drew and Rich from the PPA asking and have not heard anything, although this was only a day or two ago. I'm not even sure if LR was ever "officially" our PPA state director, but rather I think the PPA just piggybacked his efforts to get the online law here changed. He seemed on his own and unaffiliated with the PPA. In fact I think they had different views on things, including the major one in challenging the law based on the commerce clause. Would not be surprised, nor blame Lee if he's given up and just decided to focus his time elsewhere, I think he's a lawyer IIRC.

Also want to mention I talked with a long time live player around here (Andy) and he talks to, and goes to the WA State Gambling Commissions hearings etc. I for one am glad he does, even though he's not ideal (I don't think he gives a rip about online and might be one of those "online is rigged" live guys) but anyway he at least helps the scene here a bit by monitoring this commission and holding them accountable to at least someone.

It's crazy because he says the commission has almost no clue about things, is headed by some old bag that's completely out of touch etc. Someone with some pull needs to go to these and represent the players, help make our voice heard. They are just archaic and completely out of touch with what is going on and only listen to the Indians and horse racing rep's.

IMO we need to help them understand how much "jackpots" hurt the games (and of course the extra 10% the house is taking from them, thus creating a scenario where houses want to have multiple jackpot promotions and are all pretty much taking $2 now). If anything, they should not allow Jackpots in low limit games, thus helping the amount that is taken off the table in those games and maybe even softening the higher limit games by bringing jackpot type players to higher limits, but I wish they'd do away with them all together or just keep it to a Monte Carlo.

We are so far behind the curve (except for our home poker carve out, thank God at least we have that) that I can't help but agree with Burro and it's either his suggestion or move, if you're a poker player and it means enough to you.