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Originally Posted by Eddieting
Rosa what is terrible about it is after all those big clubs were shut down, these single table apartment games were started. I played some of the bigger games from 06-08 appx. It was just outrageous what they were taking out of pots. So it made it very hard to overcome the rake. I worked the floor for a game at some point and every half hour the dealers would switch and they'd bring what they had taken out that half hour.It was an outrageous amount. Even some smaller games started like this 1/3 game that this douche bag Brody was involved with, they were taking at least 3-400 a half hour. It just made it impossible to play it was now like playing a house game in casinos. At acepoint the 2/5 games were very good and they took 7 dollars at most per half hour. And you could win 2-3k there was alot of action. Straddle club I didn't like so much because they had these Italian guys just openly hanging around. They were obviously involved with some sort of underworld people but they were kind of annoying. I hope they open a poker room at aqueduct at some point they have the Electronic gambling legal maybe they will legalize it .
hahahah I played in one of Brody's single table games a handful of times since a friend was dealing there. It was built around one lawyer who basically eclipsed the egregiousness of the rake in people's minds, so college kids and ppl working nearby would come donate. He is such a douche haha but is somehow also likable enough for people to keep coming back. The worst part of those games was actually that Brody would sit in them since he was basically watching everyone play 24/7 and playing with house money; he would come out as the only winner half the time and I'd genuinely advise my friends to just never give him any action. His other partner was a good dude and would donate 1 buyin a night via getting blinded out basically and providing good table chatter, but losing against house players is always disastrous for customer morale (one of the reasons I won't deal and shape at the same club; the optics are just terrible).
Things haven't changed much. Now people playing in these single table games don't really have the $ to be playing, so the owners have to rake as much as they can before the game dies. The bigger games are private, and the player pools for them are dwindling since the players are so far ahead of anyone new entering the field. There are still some limit games that charge time, but something like 20 or 25$ per half hour in a 20/40 game is more unbeatable than any of the players want to admit, and the younger players don't seem to realize that limit would be the ideal way to gamble, kill time, and not go immediately broke so the only games around are 20/40 and above which most amateurs don't want to play. The problem with an illegal ecosystem is no one manages it towards any stable future; everyone is just super excited to be making money hand over fist and the players don't have anywhere else to turn. The dealers still do well, but in an overraked game people don't tip as well, and losing night after night (without realizing it) tends to create a game full of miserable tilted people.
The bookies offering people accounts are extremely cringe; especially considering these 888red 555green websites have extremely limited options, add juice on both sides of every line, and the weekly structure basically funnels people into chasing losses. If you deposit $ onto a site, you see the balance and though it's internet money you can conceivably view it as important. It's a bit overanalytical, but with the credit system bookies use, the negative balance is incredibly tilting and the $ seems less real until people have to pay out. The pinnacle of that structure is that the game that's going to see the most action is the Sunday night NFL game, which is always the most volatile game that the NFL had on their schedule for that week. The juice in bookmaking should be capped, and with legalization I have concerns on how to reel this industry back in.
Last edited by RosaParks1; 12-23-2021 at 01:29 PM.