So I walk into my local San Diego card room last night and after being there like 30 minutes someone mentions that one of the other tables is running a NLHE game with $25/$50 blinds and $200 antes. $200 ANTES?!?! That is higher stakes than any of the usual games there. This place, Palomar Casino, is literally a hole in the wall in the ghetto with 9 tables....most of which spread 300NL games. So, I finally look over at that table to see what the deal is and there is Tony Esfandiari playing. Awhile later, I notice there is another table that is running $25/$50 Pot Limit Omaha with Phil Laak playing in it. I guess they actually shot a commercial for Palomar earlier that day.

gman, that's pretty cool.

Must be a button ante. Instead of everyone at the table putting in $20 each and every hand and having to deal with piles of small chips, people forgetting, etc., they just make the button put in a single $200 ante.

How Sather keeps his job idk. Year after year he makes the worst signings.

WOW, congrats LUC. That's awesome.

thanks guys, today doesnt work so well -3bi so far.should move up propably. i have a feeling i dont play my a game and i am unconcentratet since i won so much the last days.
gonna play a 2nd session later...

I don't think so. I asked a couple of different dealers who had rotated through. I believe everyone was putting in $200 per hand. One of the new dealers there had moved out from Vegas and worked as a dealer at Bellagio. She said that type of game actually got spread quite regularly. The interesting thing is that in a game of that structure the blinds don't even matter other than for the house to get its cut since it doesn't even affect bet sizing really due to the antes.

I also got the impression that Tony really didn't want to miss a hand as I saw him practical sprint to and from the bathroom a couple of times. A forced $200 ante would be a good reason for that.....or a serious bladder infection.

Holy crap, that's a huge game.

Yeah, the blinds are totally meaningless. Is there some rule in SD about maximum limits they spread? Like if there's nothing higher than 25-50 allowed by law or by rule, this would be a way to get around it.

That's the equivalent of like, what, 750/1500? 600/1200? A "sandard" size stack in the game would be around $150000.

Tony?

An-TONY-yo

ldo

tony almeida

I remember reading an article about when he was coming up through the games in the Bay Area. I don't recall too many details from the article, except that when he was on the way to the card room for a session, he'd stop at Whole Foods and drop like $200 or organic produce for his lunch. His attitude being, hey, if you've got $20k on the table in front of you you don't want to be worrying about lunch. Heh.

this is real, jack

Redden wasnt a bad signing in theory the rest were ******ed, cept zherdev I think hes going to work out.

MAANNNN!! I am so *#@W excited about this season !!!!

What are they going to do now?
This is real !!

its soooooooooooo ghetto. 0cean's looks like the Venetian compared to this place.

Prostitutes some time come in and offer the players back massages during the games.

Never got into that show and dont want to...idk why, maybe cause I have too many shows I have to catch up to on my DVR.

hey rod

about the msn thing, i rarely use it but u can add me, nx9eif@vianw.pt

k coo where have you been I havent seen you at the tables in awhile.

If you haven't checked 24 from atleast season 3 it just ain't worth it

You are just missing way to much vital information about jack bauer (and everybody) imo

its amazing how deep the writers go,
season 1 and 2 comes together in season 3,
season 1 till 6 comes together into season 7

They must stop at season 8, I think

jack bauer is going to die in next season

was partying during carnival, drinking portuguese wine and smoking some pot =)

yeah, I believe so too.. I think he gets killed or something..

Maybe by Nina Meyers, she also recovered from death

I would like to see a different ending then jack bauer dying tho

prison break is tilting me, never f ending

If anybody posts another 24 spoiler here I'll come after them personally.

Here is the biggest spoiler for the season



























Its on Daylight Savings Day so its actually 25 hours...........

jack bauer dies in a grease fire