The Lodge live streams would be more enjoyable if the commentators weren't so annoying. Constantly talking and yelling, and it's the same two on pretty much every stream.

Give me any HCL commentator over the Lodge ones.

In my opinion Slick Rick and Skull Mike are great commentators. Slick Rick in particular has a unique style and delivery and is an accomplished broadcaster.
I like the HCL commentators too. They are equally as good as those at The Lodge but in a different way, mainly because it is a different game, with higher levels of drama and bigger pots.

I often hear people locally complain they're sick of hearing Slick Rick say "seti maggetti"

But I don't really watch their streams cause they only show hold em and 2 card poker puts me to sleep.

He really doesn't say it that often, it's just one of his many catch phrases. He's probably the easiest on the ear commentator I've ever heard in any sports broadcasting.

He is also excellent at speaking very nicely to anyone in the chat who says something not nice, which is very rare that they do when he is commentating and I think the
reason why it's very rare is that he is like the school teacher that you have so much respect for and who speaks so nicely about everything and everybody, that you would never misbehave in his class.

sweat dreams

I'm currently helping Texas Republicans with drafting a bill that will make "poker clubs" with dues illegal. So hopefully Polk, Neeme and Owen will be eating that cost they paid to buy the Lodge.

Uh, congrats on being an enemy of the people?

These clubs are charging an hourly fee that is well below what the rake taken by poker rooms is.

Back in Tampa I heard they went up to $6 rake plus $2 jackpot drop per hand.

At The Lodge it's $11/hr.

So congrats on outing yourself for being the villain and trying to make poker less accessible or much more expensive for the rest of us, you're a true legend bro

After seeing what you said about pot odds in the other thread, I'm not surprised you'd want to harm poker seeing as how you suck at the most basic part of it. The jealousy is real with you.

I mean, organized gambling has always been illegal in Texas. Congrats on finding a loophole and also managing to keep a law from closing that loophole away from the legislature for this long.

Oh boo hoo you had to drive to OK or LA (a whole state over) to play your degenerate game. How privileged can you be?

It's not jealously. There's more money to be made in keeping poker illegal than playing it. Clearly being constantly scammed isn't enough for you idiots to stop playing it.

So apparently you hate online poker and also feel like live poker is a "degenerate game".

Wouldn't it be easier for you to just stay off this site or at least out of poker-related subforums?

https://youtu.be/8t3HIZREslY

So they're getting sued now lol. And he's suing Nate Silver for ... um... colluding with Andrew? ...and posting the stream on Twitter... huh... he must feel that the conservative justice system is so rigged he's got a case because I just don't see how this **** is gonna fly. I think the whole thing is egregious but going after Nate will prove to be a huge mistep.

Don’t forget your clown makeup at home when you go to meet with the legislators!

How else am I going to keep up with all the scams you guys constantly subject yourselves to?

How do you feel about the state of the room since the stake was purchased?

Seems like the place is always popping so I would assume the players are happy.

I was there for about 3 weeks recently.

The place just works and is about the best card-room I have ever been in.

Food choices are a problem, but you can order in and believe management are addressing the issue.

Austin itself is not especially popping, if you are over the age of 40 - I felt limited outside things to do, apart
from shop/maybe play golf. I was there out of baseball / rodeo season.

This place started really nice and the money was great everyone looked after each other, if there was an issue your voice was heard, we all moved across country for this job. Then this place blew up. And as it blew up so did the egos of Joe, Anthony, and the owner Jason. They take credit for the whole place blowing up when really they just got Doug Brad and Andrew to go in on it and that’s why it blew up cause their faces were behind it. But Joe has this god complex now and treats his dealers like scum unless you’re in his tight circle you better walk on eggshells cause you say the wrong thing or go against him or do something wrong and you’re either punished or targeted or fired. And there’s no talking to him, HR does not help at all they’re on their side too. We have nobody to talk to or go to, he won’t even make eye contact with his dealers when he speaks his two words to them looking down. They’ve been caught stealing multiple times in multiple different ways by dealers and other staff and it always just goes away like nothing happened. He sent a dick pic to a staff member, his wife found out and everyone at the lodge knows and again nothing happened. They’ve been caught stealing from tournaments, from rigging private games and finding loopholes in the cage. So many dealers have told stories and at least 20 went to the owners with all different stories and nobody did anything. It’s all so fake and shady. One day something huge is gonna come out and the place is gonna crumble to the ground. They’ve lost a ton of their good dealers, there’s really only a handful left they had the best dealers in the country and we all left or got fired for standing up for ourselves when things go bad. Doug and Andrew told us they were going to do something and they did the bare minimum and didn’t actually listen to anything anyone had to say and tried to say that 30+ dealers are all liars and players as well. It’s ridiculous.

Maybe Doug will make a video

Learn to use the enter button.

It helps readability.

Hi Nelson

So they stole from tournament prize pools? Any receipts of this/days/events you remember this happening? Do other people realize this/can corroborate? Why’d u wait so long to bring to light theft?

If you think they’re poorly run it’s one thing but to accuse theft I think you should provide some evidence for the communities sake.

Imagine being shocked that HR are scum who arent on the employees side.

Imagine being shocked Texas card room owners are sending dic pics to staff members.

Imagine if Doug actually had enough integrity to call out someone else’s poor behavior if it didn’t directly benefit him