You dont know the meaning of the word nitty until you've played the daytime 1/2 at the Isle. Ive had people fold hands like JJ to a $15 raise because "quad queens is already on the high hand board. "Im not calling $15 with no chance to hit the high hand!"

It doesn't matter that I raised $15 with J8s in the cutoff after 2 limps and the guy with JJ was OTB. He's not calling.

Maybe one day Ill play 1/2 and just see how much I can make by raising over and over stealing blinds and limps and just surrendering if I get called unless I happen to pound the flop.

Is there anyone under the age of 60 there on a Monday at noon?

The massage girl?

You'd be stunned how much you can make by over-raising at a nitfest 1-2 table when the room first opens.

I used to see a player who was a semi-regular who was notorious for making absurd raises pre-flop. He wasn't so much hyper-aggressive as much as he was hyper-reckless with his chips. Players would limp to him and he'd raise it to $35. 5 or 10 hands in a row. And then he'd show the garbage hand he had after everyone folded. 3-9 offsuit. J-4 offsuit. You get the picture.

The crazy thing is after he'd raised to 15x the big blind 2 or 3 times you'd think the players at the table would get the idea. But these old nits were just so attached to the idea of the high hand that they'd continue to call $2 sitting at UTG +1 and would then shake their head in disgust as they folded to a $30 raise. It took more than a little self control for me, as a dealer, not to try to coach some of these guys. "Hey, you realize that he's going to make it $30, don't you? He's done it 8 hands in a row. Don't put in $2 unless you're planning to either call his $30 raise or 3-bet him."

But these guys just didn't get it. So they'd call $2 with 7-10 suited and dreams of hitting a straight flush for the high hand jackpot, and then sigh in frustration when they realized they weren't willing to risk 30% of their stack just to see a flop.

I totally agree, but Im not surprised by that at all. When I play 1/2 waiting for a 2/5 seat, I do exactly that (not quite to that extreme). I raise $15-$20 over a limp or two with anything playable and I steal so much money I really feel like it should be illegal. Twice Ive had the brush tell me that people asked for a table change because "that guy wont stop raising"

People hate playing 1/2 because theres so many short stacks but I dont let that slow me down. Eventually people start calling me but they will call $20 with $30 behind and then fold the flop when I shove and I shove with just about anything because they will miss the flop most of the time.

hahah

I thought about posting in the existing South Florida thread, but most of those posts seem to discuss NLHE and PLO. I was hoping this would be a good place for those of us in South Florida that are looking for structured, non-HE games.

I'll start with this...
Tomorrow (Friday) at 6:30pm, it looks like The Casino at Dania Beach will be hosting a 4-8 Omaha Hi/Lo game. This fills a stakes void that is between the 8-16 O.E. game at The Isle and the 2-4 Omaha Hi/Lo game at The Big Easy.

Staying in Pompano Beach in two weeks. Is my best spot to play Hardrock? Isle may be closer, but from this thread it's a nit fest. Just curiuos

As a general rule - if you are playing 1/2NL the games at Hard Rock are better. I spend a fair amount of time in South Florida and I travel to play at Hard Rock - when the Isle and several other rooms are closer to where I stay.

For those that are interested...this game successfully started on time with a full table. I only stayed for two hours, but the table was full when I left and there was a waitlist.

The South Florida thread is the appropriate place for it though, so I moved it here.

Thanks probably what I will be playing will go 15 minutes further than probably

The Isle has pretty good action as long as its not Mon-Fri before dinner time.

It looks like downtown Miami is going to be getting its first poker room. The owners of Magic City Casino have been awarded a "summer jai-alai" permit and plan to build a new fronton and poker room at 3030 Biscayne Blvd in the Edgewater neighborhood. This will now become the closest and most convenient room for tourists and business travelers staying in downtown Miami or South Beach.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...214384589.html

I noticed that many months of data from South Florida casinos is missing from the Herndon mob data base. Hard Rock Hollywood is pretty accurate, but Hard Rock Coconut Creek is missing months and months of tournament results.

I would not suggest moving to play unless you meet several conditions

1) you have enough money to support your daughter and an inevitable downswing.

2) you have someone who crushes 2/5 or 5/10 who will regularly help you improve your game.

3) have a comprehensive plan on how you're gonna go about your new life (day to day and financially).

Also 100k is doable, but like everyone says only top of the food chain make that type of money and one's hours would have to be mainly 2/5 to even consider that type of hourly

I will be in Florida to try poker for the first time next month. I play $2/5 NL and $1/2 PLO. What casinos should I visit?

i havent been there, but ive heard Hialeah (look at bravo) has a lot of $1-2 PLO going every night and very loose action.

If you’re comfortable with players speaking non-English to each other during hands with dealers also communicating, sometimes during hands, non-English to players than Hialeah is the place for you. It’s so ripe for collusion the two times I played there.

I can confirm that this is not an exaggeration. If you dont speak Spanish, I would avoid playing at Hialeah.

There is some crazy 1/2 PLO action there but for me, its not worth it. Not to mention I would never play there after dark. Its not a very nice area at all.

Thanks. I will be picking up a car in Sarasota and trying to figure out if I should head towards Miami or go north to Tampa. I also might consider doing both. Is there a strong reason to go the extra couple of hours to Miami area?

There's not enough difference in the poker being played in any of these places for me to drive 2 extra hours to Ft. Lauderdale / Miami area.

There's also a poker room right in Sarasota. I havent been there and don't think its that nice, but its right there so you might want to check it out. Other than that, Id go to Tampa for sure.

#1 spot for poker in FL is Hard Rock Hollywood in the Miami area. #2 is Hard Rock Tampa. But you can find plenty of NLHE action at many other poker rooms, including the Sarasota dog track (One-Eyed Jacks poker room), Derby Lane dog track in St Petersburg and others. If you play in the Tampa area, the Tampa Greyhound Track has a good PLO game on Mondays. Note though that in general the action is much better during the winter season when the snow-birds and tourists are in town.

What factors are you taking into consideration for the Hard Rocks to be #1 and #2? Is it only the loose action or are you giving weigh to the comfort of the facility, food, etc as well? I have 3 dog tracks, 2 horse tracks, and the new room in Orange City ahead of them for action and ratio of pure chip dumpers.

Fair enough. Care to list them?