I think (owner) and staff do a great job and I'm glad someone in Central Ohio (read: all of Ohio) can actually schedule and produce a decent MTT series once in a while.

Curious about the collusion you're talking about...PM me w details?

What's the turnout been like of late?

I tend to not play during peak hours, otherwise I'd be much more inclined to give the tank a(nother) go.

skip the PM. Talk about it here. Have you spoken to the staff or gaming commission about it ????

Maybe talk about it in the appropriate thread?

I'm interested in checking this place out some time. I've never gone to a non-casino poker club so I'm a little confused about the legality. Rake is illegal but private clubs are not? Since the OP is from 2011, I wanted to confirm these details as well. The price is a $20/year fee and $20 each day you go? No rake but there's $1 for the BBJ every pot over $50?

How many players (typically) are there on Wednesdays (8/16 HORSE), Fridays (any LO8) and Sundays (8/16 LO8) playing those games?

Thanks!

The fees are still the same. You can check their webpage at sharktankpokerclub.com
They normally have full tables for their specialty games plus a 1/2 NL game going each of those nights.

Friday hasn't seen O8 in a while. Their website has the most updated schedule of games and they've been getting off on the regular.

The $20 "yearly fee" includes the daily fee for that day, so it's not an extra fee the first day. They haven't taken out for BBJ in a few months as the BBJ has been sitting at 10K for a while now so no pots are being raked in the 1/2 NL.

The Tank has a March Madness series of tournaments going on with $52,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Check out their site sharktankpokerclub.com

Been seeing these two guys coming in every together around 10 sitting at the same table. They sat with me a few times and they must have a signal because one would make raises without a hand to keep action alive or juice the pot preflop to set up either a squeeze (incorrect term because the 3better has the best hand).

I've seen this same thing in California at a card room and the guys got detected. They made them show their hands after it played out in the pot in question and the guys were dq'd from the hand.

I said something to the floor and he looked confused. Been playing at the tank exclusively (which hasn't been much the last few months) since then. I know cheating occurs everywhere but the fact that it was so obvious and ignored tilted me.

Wait are you saying this happened at the tank or at the casino? You talk about collusion or team play and then say you've played exclusively at the tank since then. Which place are you implicating because I asked a few afloors at the tank and they don't know what I'm talking about.

Ofcourse they don't...

Snarky quip noted, but if dwiggle is talking about the casino, there's no reason they would be familiar with the situation as it didn't happen there. (pending clarification from dwiggle)

Dickwiggle is talking about the casino.

Saw it at the casino, been playing at the tank since i accepted nothing was going to get done about it. I think the tank runs a pretty clean game since they got rid of a few bad elements. The plo game I played in the other night was very good to me!

dick, are you a winning poker player?

Isn't every poker player?? I've been blessed with a few larger tourney scores bit am only a slight winner in cash due to being really terrible online in retrospect. MDMA/cocaine and grad school loans still have me playing 1/2 most days if I'm honest with myself.

No. The vast, vast majority are losers. A small few are break/even and a tiny sliver are long-term winners.

I think his response of "Isn't everyone??" was just a joke that all poker players think they're winners. Even I could read the irony in his response. Not sure what this has to do with the thread though?

From my memory of his posts I've read in the past and judging from his blog, I don't think this dude is entirely mentally stable (said more nicely, completely in touch with reality as conventional people experience it).

I hope I'm just reading too much into this and he is just a troll or ******* but assuming that isn't the case I hope he gets a little help. I have a dear friend from the military who has been struggling for years with schizophrenia whose online interactions remind me a lot of this guy. Good luck Don either way.

I understood his tongue in cheek reply. I was asking because he may not realize that the more likely explanation to his theories on why he loses is that he's just a losing player, not that there's some big cheating conspiracy out to get him.

He also seems to think I'm schizophrenic because I understand freedom and basic human rights. So there's that. I'd be glad to further discuss in a less moderated and more appropriate place, except I've recently decided to stop trying to help ignorant or naive people.

I'm done either engaging the troll or trying to argue with an unstable person after this post. Certainly there is cheating in poker. In places where there is a "professional" dealers, collusion between players is the most likely situation that cheating happens. I happened to get interested in collusion in poker while studying for a graduate school class in public policy that focused on antitrust rules and compliance. I found that looking at the concept of collusion in the poker context made the business/market context make more sense when I was trying to learn it. There is a lot of material on the internet and even on this forum about collusion in poker so I didn't have to do much digging. While I'm certainly no expert on collusion, it is very simple to detect from a player's perspective if one knows what to look for and is paying attention to the game. In fairness to the floor people, it is a very rough thing to catch on their end because it requires viewing several hands over hours and mulitple sessions before one can have enough evidence from the floor's perspective to toss the person. The best course of action for me to take even when I suspect something may not be on the up and up is go to another place if no action will be taken to remedy the situation.

You definitely seem like a champion of human rights with your last statement. Truly ignorant and naive people are the ones that need to most help. Like I said, Good luck and I hope you get help or are having a really fun time trolling!

People who seek help are those who need it. Like yourself, most just bathe in their ignorance until they die.

Grad school? That explains a lot. #youth #ignorance

Dick and Donni, knock it off. Take it to PM if you wish to continue arguing.

This place still popping? Any guesses as to how profitable this little operation is?

Place is still popping. Was just there tonight. Tourney was finishing up and they had two full cash games (PLO & NL).