i'm moving down to the area in two weeks. looks like THR is the place to play over derby lane from the little research i've done. what is this visa promo for august you guys speak of?

Play 25 hours in the week during Sundays through Fridays and get a $150 Visa gift card. Just need to sign up for their player tracking thing to get your card and they swipe you in at the tables to keep track. Last month was a $150 gas card and you could get it a max of four times in the month I think.

Be there in 20 min. Who's there? You make it out, Ron?

Yea new game starting on table 12 now.

What stakes? I'm looking for 1/2, just walked in the casino through the parking garage.

How nitty are the dealers about clocking you out when you go for a smoke, to the can, or whatever?

Very.

What seat you in ducks?

Sorry man, table 5 seat 8.

Anybody else here and hungry? Thinking of grabbing some food.

Anybody here? I just parked.

Btw, nice meeting Ron and Alex/Amber last night. Wish you woulda stuck around for dinner, Ron, but at least now I can pick you out of a crowd. Heh

What table are you on?

I'm at 23 seat 7. Come say ''sup'

Likewise sir. Hope you fared better than me for the rest of the night.

I'm new here but on the way to play, post here if you're going to be in the room and want to meet up. Usually take a lady friend but going solo tonight.

So Hard Rock spreads 1/2 and 1/3? With the max being 100 for 1/2 and 300 for 1/3? Are both spread at a pretty good rate?

On my way for some late night action.

Hey there, gents.
Name's Josh, just turned 24, living in Orlando.

Pumped to discover shortly after moving here (got out of the Marine Corps in June, in Orlando for MMI) that there was a casino in Tampa, and, obviously, will be hitting it up sometime this week.

Combed through the last 10 or so pages of the thread, which answered most of my questions - but I wanted to ask you guys how the tournament structure works there. I saw on their schedule they have regular NLHE tourneys daily, but, being a complete casino virgin, am completely unaccustomed to their workings. Was interested in how many players these tourneys tend to attract regularly, and what the payout structure looks like in relation.

Will be dropping by soon. Thanks in advance.

Played tonight and guy in seat 3 bets $10 and one of the reds rolls right into the Jackpot drop. lol

Yes both are going 24/7. I dont play graveyard but maybe the 1/3 games might die out at 5 or 6am but Im not sure.
Any given day you are looking at 6 to 12 1/2nl games and 1 to 4 1/3nl games.

^ TY

Is there a specific reason why they do that and don't just spread 1/3? Seems like the obvious choice unless you like playing 1/2 short. I assume the casino makes more $ spreading both games...

Tourney structures are horrible imo. Derby Lane / TB Downs have far better MTT structures, and its not much farther to either. Ring games are def juicy though, if you're into that.

That's awesome

Agreed HR sucks for tournies

Lol, that's great. Did a supervisor get called? What did they do?

Also, I saw they had a 10/25 going, which I thought was surprising given that it was a Tuesday night. Didn't know that ever went.