Yeah, that's really bizarre, as it just isnt the rule. The only time lammers dont play is if the brush gives you the lammars after the deal of the cards has started (whether you have looked at your cards or not). Then they dont play until the next hand. But otherwise they always play( with one notable exception with you!)

Maybe some of the other regs on here can chime in and say if they have ever seen lammers not play if on the table before a deal starts. That's just so weird.

Its possible the cards had already started being dealt. I dont remember, but the dealer specifically said, the money doesnt play until the chips are on the table in front of me.

The dealer was flat-out wrong. If there are no lammers, fine. But as long as the lammers are on the table, it's the same as having the chips on the table.

1) I like the lighting as it's less migraine inducing than super bright places but w/e

2) 3) Basically you're a grown man who doesnt carry an ID. Such a burden. FTR you don't need one if you have a wild card but I'm sure there are other places that card people.

4) This is wrong you can play with lammers. Dealers are wrong sometimes but I've never seen them make this particular mistake. I don't know why people don't just buy more chips to begin with. It's faster and easier than breaking out money even when you could do both so I never had issue with it.

I actually think it's a really nice room. The other rooms I've been to in Florida aren't even in the same league.

But the action blows 90% of the time. I recently got back from a poker trip elsewhere in the state and the action there was unbelievable. Recs totally clueless. Like a decade ago clueless. "Pros" also clueless when playing deeper than 100BB. And recro ratio of at least 10 to 1.

That's what really sucks about the 2/5 games at SHRT. Yeah you can get lucky and wind up at a table full of recs but the recro ratio is like 3 to 2. And many recs aren't even that bad.

There may be other places that card you, but none of the other 38 casinos/poker rooms that Ive played in the last 3 years are on that list.

The room itself IS nice and the chair are really comfortable. It was the other things I mentioned that are a turn off.

March will be another poop show long waiting lines all week. 500$ for 50 hours played only Monday to Friday

I guess you didnt read the whole promo ad or didnt play there at all last month. The promo is the same as Feb. the hours have to be playedfrom 2am to 10 am. There was anything but long waiting lines during those times last month. In fact, the bigger concern was whether a 2/5 game even kept running all night long.

Anybody see the new sign posted? "As of March 18 Seminole Hard Rock Tampa will be longer take a collection for the Texas Holden and Omaha Bad Beat Jackpots. The current Bad Beats will end at time of next Jackpot hit".

Haven't gotten any confirmation exactly on future jackpot drops/promos

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Wow, congrats to those of you who frequent THR. I'd love for my "home" rooms not to take a promotion drop.

Of course. That's not what it is though. Just no longer a BAD BEAT. I asked a dealer if that meant $1 (just for promos) instead of current $2 and he didn't seem to think so. This just was posted today so no one can say for sure. I'm assuming some massive high hand/hrs played promos because with a $2 drop that's a lot of money to go around without a bad beat fund...

As the dealer mentioned the bad beat does little for room traffic as opposed to the other daily promos. If they are just trying to get more tables running daily I guess that makes sense.

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That would still be much preferred to a beat beat jackpot imo

Gonna be in town for St.Pattys weekend. Anyone ever play the triple 30’s daily they have on Saturdays? Does the tourney ever get overlay? How late does it usually run and is it mostly good players or relatively soft? Thanks for any info.

They have a great new director at Tampa. He will use that promo fund well the bad beat is never a good idea all that money put in and 9 players get it all

everyone has their own opinion

I prefer the bad beat over HH promo's

Guessing maybe you were part of a table that hit one? I've been playing poker for 18 years, I've been at the casino once when it happened... out of tens of thousands of hours I've played.. Not even at the table, just at the casino.

It's such a longshot, the thought of it happening never crosses my mind, could care less if the bad beat was 10k or 300k, just would never result in me going to the casino for that. Now, the high hand promos, I usually bink that a few times a year at least, I'd much rather that money go towards $1,000 high hands 7 days a week from 2pm to 2am or something along those lines, which would not only result in hitting a few myself, but fill up the room with people chasing them and calling down all day/night trying to hit it as well..

We'll see what they do with the extra cash, but hoping it's something along those lines...

bad beats don't change the way people play
HH promo's do

sitting at a table with 8 stacks varying from $17 to $40 all wanting to limp and check to hit a HH is not fun or profitable for a player
IT IS how-ever very profitable for the poker room

there's 2-3 threads on this all ready so won't derail.

I understand and see regularly from a house point of view its preferred as it brings in players and more players means more tables which means more rake!

In other words, the room is using player money to generate more rake for the house rather than to make a better player experience.

depends on who you are

the OMC's who are out for the afternoon to drink free coffee ,collect their 50cents an hour and socialize love it.
they all talk about the new TV they bought with the HH hit or the weekend trip they took etc....
that money NEVER returns to the poker table from them.

those of us under a 100yrs old and looking to actually play poker on the other hand!

Just for the record as I can't tell if you are catching my drift, we are in agreement: High Hand promos are better for the player experience than Bad Beat Jackpots.

move up levels so the regs respect your rake

DeathCab, I see that you're a tournament player. How many "tournament pros" would you say there are at Hard Rock? These are players that basically play tournaments full time and have no 9-5.

Man I have no clue I play 1-2 tournaments a year. I'd guess none are "full-time tournament pros" because the buy-ins are too low and rake is too high

Heading there next weekend, Is there a long wait list on a Saturday evening at like 530-6pm?

Disagree that's how it usually goes. Not going to say there's not a few people that might do that here and there, but if that's how they are playing, keep raising up pots and make them get out or transfer... Feel like the ****tyness of a few people here and there who might sit with $40.00 trying to hit their 400-1 high hand shot, pays itself off and then some with the people who will pay $100+ to chase their 1 outter to hit the high hand #PotOdds lol

Oops - I misread your first post, Snowman. We aren't in agreement. You should want promos that change the way players play, to be less than optimum. Sure, there are many OMCs at Hard Rock that limp and check, nursing their small stack to try to hit the HH. But you will find that many of them will also call a hefty pre-flop raise when they shouldn't, in the hopes to hit a HH. Plus there are the other players who pay to chase against the odds, or slow play to the river when they have trips (minimizing their wins).

I agree with you: the Bad Beat promo generally doesn't change the way people play; and the High Hand promo does. But you want people to change the way they play, away from optimum. That's what makes good promos an advantage for experienced players.

By the way, don't tell me a story about how you lost your stack to a player that called your big raise when he shouldn't have because he was chasing a high hand. When that happens, I thank the poker gods that he is sitting at my table. In the long run, that's who you will make the most profit off of.