Any limit games running in Vancouver?

Dunno about other places but Edgewater has 4-8 and 4-8 Kill. Most players in it are pretty bad. It's usually at least 4 to the flop and anyone with a pair will call you down

The places I have played in Vancouver are all the same rake 10% up to 5$ ( + $1 for the bad beat if the pot is over $20) unless the table is really short handed then the floor might reduce the rake.

Depends on what you term beatable, I only play 1-4 times a month, and don't take the rake in to consideration. If I when a pot, sure they get piece, but I try to win bigger pots
I look at as they are reducing the $ on the table, but I only consider my stack, and normal the other players are either adding or subtracting from it.

Rarely. There was some 10/25 running at the River Rock during the BCPC but outside that 5/10 is the highest you're gonna find.

What about Starlight Casino?

bump

hows the bad beat jackpot like at cascades?

Haven't been there for almost a year. Not a fan. Mostly just 1/2 NL and small LHE games.

and the competition?

Soft like Edgewater?

all 1/2 are soft anywhere u go

I used to play semi-reg at Edgewater 1/2, between July '09 - May '10. Young Aussie kid, played a little too aggro/spewy at times, and regularly built up big stacks only to donk it all off before leaving breakeven at best. A few times held onto the big stacks and cashed out huge.

I got used to the live play at Star City in Sydney, which is incredibly soft, so at first I found Edgewater slightly tougher. More regs and fewer gamblers in the poker room as it was seperate from the casino itself. However, I didn't get to play a lot during peak 'recreational donk' times i.e Friday/Saturday nights.

Whilst I recorded a fair amount of losing sessions, thanks mainly to my incredibly poor self control in knowing when to rack up and leave, I learnt a lot in those 11 months. In general, I found the crowd at Edgewater fairly friendly, the dealers and floor managers were quite knowledgeable and there were never any super long waits for a seat.

However, my favourite room in Vancouver was definately Boulevarde! The 1/2 games there were so soft it was amazing. Like printing money. Played 6 sessions there, recorded one loss after having top set cracked for an $800 pot then running 67 into the almighty K6o on 664 flop for my last $200. Every other session was a winner, with the smallest profit booked being around the $450 mark. Loved it and wished I could have played there more!

Made a straight flush in one session and the floor gave me a boulevarde keyring on top of the donkeys stack! Score!

Played once each at River Rock and Cascades in Langley.

No real opinion of River Rock, only played a few hours and ran pretty bad.

As for Cascades - give it a miss. Not a lot of tables running, and the wait for a seat was pretty killer. They also make up their own rules as they please. Worst floor managers I've dealt with.

Heard a couple of bad stories and saw some dodgy calls, but my shocker was being forced into a min-raise when I'd announced "raise", then thrown in the chips for a call and began cutting out my raise. Dealer stopped me and said I had to min-raise. I called the floor and two of them backed the dealer up. All the commotion cost me at least a call from my opponent, who I conveniently had drawing dead. Sigh...

Back in Australia now, lapping up the fishies at Star City again. I miss Vancouver though! Such a beautiful city! GO NUCKS!

Do any of the fine folks in the Vancouver area want to meet up and have real life conversations about poker (hands, strategy, rooms, players etc.)? I'm just starting to play again after many months of unemployment/using my BR to pay some bills, and it would be good to get to know some other 2+2ers in the city.

joe if you ever plan to play at the edgewater on a friday or saturday night, let me know and if im planning on going on that same day we can coordinate our breaks from the table and talk some poker/discuss hands from our sessions

River Rock BBJ over 36k....not sure about the other casinos in the lower mainland. Gonna head there tonight.

36k? Typo? You mean 136 or something? 36 not that high

well it just got beat so many times over....yes 36k not that high. Just finished a 1/2 sesh ended up over 1K profit.

Played at Starlight two days in a row just 1-2 both times taking home small profits.. of 85 and 60 bucks... only played maybe combined an hour and a half htough.

Wednesday I played at midnight and it was fine my table had a bunch of short stacks and green fish.. limp, call, limp call.. while today I played at 5 in the afternoon a bunch of aggressive players.

I want to play at Edgewater soon..

Whats high noon at river rock like?

Gateway Casino badbeats, all are listed and updated daily at bottom of link , along with tourney info.

Cascades Langley: $51K

http://www.cascadescasino.ca/poker.html

Starlight NewWest: $47K

http://www.starlightcasino.ca/poker.html

Edgewater Vancouver: Holdem 24K , Omaha 30K

http://edgewatercasino.ca/bad-beat.html

Cascades is hosting Cascades championship: Lots of satty's running.

Sat Sep 10th $550 NL Shootout (100 max, 10 tables) top 2 advance from each table
Sun Sep 11th $1100 NL deep stack (120. max)


Edgewater is hosting (WCPC) West Coast Poker Championships at end of September, all events in the stadium club and limited to 20 tables.

Sat Sep 24th noon $330 NL (200 max.)
Sun Sep 25th noon $300 Womens NL
Mon Sep 26th noon $200 Limit Holdem (200 max.)
Tue Sep 27th noon $550 PotLimit Holdem/ PL Omaha (200 max.)
Wed Sep 28th noon $180 Super satty (200 max.)
Thr Sep 29th noon $1650 Day 1a Main event
Fri Sep 30th noon $1650 Day 1b Main Event


River Rock is hosting the BC POKER Championship:

Sun Oct 23 Super Satty
Mon Oct 24th Super Satty
Tue Oct 25th $550 Day1a NL Bounty event (176 max.) in poker room
Wed Oct 26th $550 Day 1b NL Bounty event (176 max.) in poker room
Thr Oct 27th $550 Day 1c NL Bounty event (176 max.) in poker room
Sun Oct 30th $1100 NL (550 max.)
Wed Nov 2nd $3000 Main event (550 max.)
Mon Nov 7th $5000 Hi Roller event ( 150-176 max.?)

Great Canadian Casino Bad Beats:

RiverRock Richmond: 47K

http://www.riverrock.com/casino/poker_room/

Boulevard Casino, Couquitlam: 97K

http://www.blvdcasino.com/casino/poker_room/

definitely playing the $550 half PLH/half PLO tourney @ Edgewater

Went to Edgewater Tonite. Wed Aug 17th.

Most of the tables were going 1/2, 2/5 NL. 4/8 limit and a 5/10 HA game with list. List for PLO 1/2 was 25 deep.

What is the max buyin for 1/2NL at Edgewater? I'm going to be in Vancouver in a few months and will prob. play there since I'll be in the downtown area.

Which casino is better for 1/2NL Edgewater or River Rock?