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That location looks horrible for Caesars.  I'll be there Wednesday night so I'll check it out.  To be honest, the new room at PH looks great (on an upstairs level) but I never played there too much back in the day when it was on the main floor of the casino.  I'll check that one out as well this weekend.

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On 5/13/2025 at 12:29 PM, AUS-97HORN said:

so note to self...

 

I dont fucking care if I win the lottery when its $2B.... I just cant possibly play the big game at the lodge.... 

 

heres a huge Mariano video, in which they all play extra spicy Hustler Million game style ( even though most have $200k or less in front).

 

but then the stream ended and everyone is racking up to leave the room and something bonkers happens 

 

start at exactly 50 mins on the dot. 

 

 

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Taras fucking announced does anyone want to flip for my stack?  (~$200k).... he gets a huckleberry whose got $125k to say yes... and these fucks  full on 1 card at a time reveal it as a Omaha hand.   literally playing for 125k each on basically a coin flip. 

 

People like Taras are just degenerate gamblers, you can tell by the way he plays.

I have never considered myself a gambler, I don't like going to casinos or playing anything but poker, which I don't really consider gambling. It's also why I don't really care for cash games, I enjoy tournament poker which is more fun even though you make more money (probably) playing cash games. For me it's about the entertainment value and the potential payoff at the end is just icing.

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On 5/19/2025 at 3:24 PM, Zwylde said:

That location looks horrible for Caesars.  I'll be there Wednesday night so I'll check it out.  To be honest, the new room at PH looks great (on an upstairs level) but I never played there too much back in the day when it was on the main floor of the casino.  I'll check that one out as well this weekend.

Confirmed suckage at Caesars.  I didn't play since I was showing a couple of 21yo's around for the couple of days we were there.  Looks to be like 8 tables or so with 4 or so tv's.  Looked like playing in a cave.  If you like playing in isolation I guess you will not be deterred but I like the "openness" of the old room and others that are open to the casino.  I'd be surprised if it lasts more than 6 months but I guess if they don't have a tenant for that space then it would just come down to payroll to staff it determining if it makes any money or not.  Another concern would be drink service since they are nowhere near the casino floor for a rotation but since I didn't play I don't know if they had it or not.  If not, that would be the death knell.  Also noticed that there was two or three tables in the left-front portion of the Sportsbook where they looked to be playing tournaments - no idea why they would do tournaments there.

Didn't get over to PH to check out that room unfortunately.

 

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I’d guess many of us far prefer an isolated room rather than being out in the open casino. Smokers and slot machines are annoying as fuck

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The old Wynn room was perfect in that regard, imo. Comfortably away from the casino floor, but obvious to passers-by and in between the clubs and the parking garage for funneling in fish

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On 5/27/2025 at 7:22 PM, Lurch said:

I’d guess many of us far prefer an isolated room rather than being out in the open casino. Smokers and slot machines are annoying as fuck

This is why I despise Winstar.

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hopefully TCH launches a good promo to take advantage of disgruntled Lodge people

sure would be cool if TCH's website didn't suck and tourney structures were online. why is shit so FUCKING hard for everyone?

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Hard to say I guess? Can't imagine they are struggling too badly.

They did, hilariously and predictably, walk the $5 checkin back already. Told my wife the second I read it that there would be a meltdown and they would walk it back. So they just negatively impacted their perception and goodwill for no gain. What did they think was going to happen, people were going to say "oh cool, I get to stand in a different line and pay $5 every time I come in, sounds good"? How does that either not get filtered out by someone with a brain, or if they actually have to charge it to be viable, they just plow through the backlash. 

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Hard to say I guess? Can't imagine they are struggling too badly.
They did, hilariously and predictably, walk the $5 checkin back already. Told my wife the second I read it that there would be a meltdown and they would walk it back. So they just negatively impacted their perception and goodwill for no gain. What did they think was going to happen, people were going to say "oh cool, I get to stand in a different line and pay $5 every time I come in, sounds good"? How does that either not get filtered out by someone with a brain, or if they actually have to charge it to be viable, they just plow through the backlash. 

Good lord, that just screams incompetence
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On 5/29/2025 at 5:43 PM, TXSooner518 said:

hopefully TCH launches a good promo to take advantage of disgruntled Lodge people

sure would be cool if TCH's website didn't suck and tourney structures were online. why is shit so FUCKING hard for everyone?

 

There is a link on their calendar to the Poker Atlas listing which has structure and a live clock. Were you just meaning on their website only?

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I mean, yes? When I go on their website and they have a tourney calendar and I click on a tourney in the calendar I should see the structure.

On their site right now, literally zero tourneys on the June calendar. Not super helpful if I wanna plan. I then clicked the “view poker atlas” button.

Once I found the June 1 tourney, click it. The structure is greyed out, can’t click it. Useless.

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On 5/30/2025 at 2:44 PM, Zeus said:

 

He lost it all. Which one of you morons is this

On 5/29/2025 at 7:57 PM, Lurch said:

Think they’re losing money? I assumed they were banking

Seems more like pure greed to me. I can't imagine they're losing money.

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They are banking.

They have a handful of tables that run 24/7 and have 20-30 tables running 6pm-2am each producing around $100 an hour

Just from 6pm-2am they are getting $100 * 20 * 8 = $16,000 in revenue * 30 days in a month = $480k / month = $5.7 million / year

Plus all the tournaments and tables during off hours.

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On 6/2/2025 at 2:17 PM, blacklab said:

They are banking.

They have a handful of tables that run 24/7 and have 20-30 tables running 6pm-2am each producing around $100 an hour

Just from 6pm-2am they are getting $100 * 20 * 8 = $16,000 in revenue * 30 days in a month = $480k / month = $5.7 million / year

Plus all the tournaments and tables during off hours.

I wonder how related it is to the number of fish in the pond, so to speak. They have 5 owners that are famous poker players of varying levels of notoriety, and who knows how many other owners/partners/investors that aren't publicly known.

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Poker Atlas has a new update and now asks for payment to see player names on table signup lists, and to have names longer than three letters. I've only scanned the app, so there might be more features behind the paywall. Deeeeep Siiigh. Also didn't realize till today that TCH is $13/hr in Austin. Price of poker is going up it seems.

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Also didn't realize till today that TCH is $13/hr in Austin. Price of poker is going up it seems.


The inelasticity of BBs relative to inflation and rake has always been interesting to me. Players want to play $2, $5 and $10 BBs but those games are now effectively worth much less to players than they were 10 years ago
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On 6/5/2025 at 6:24 AM, MagicSoccerSpray said:

Poker Atlas has a new update and now asks for payment to see player names on table signup lists, and to have names longer than three letters. I've only scanned the app, so there might be more features behind the paywall. Deeeeep Siiigh. Also didn't realize till today that TCH is $13/hr in Austin. Price of poker is going up it seems.

Yeah that change to Poker Atlas was really screwing with me yesterday as I was driving in to play at TCH. Didn't know about that as I hadn't played in around a week or so. Kinda stinks that the hourly went up to $13, I was there for around 2hrs before one of the dealers said something about it changing at the beginning of this month. It has been quite awhile though since going from $8 to $12.

I knew I was gonna be there awhile so I took advantage of the 9 hrs for $99. You can do that everyday this month so if you know you're gonna be playing a quite a lot, it's good to take advantage of. At least that is what I'm gonna do each day I play and hopefully bank some hrs for $11 each. They also still have the play all day for $50 on Tuesdays this month also. 

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i have been pretty quiet on here, been on a decent run the last 6 weeks or so and didnt want to jinx things too much. 

 I have probably played upwards of 14 sessions and only had 1 neg session -500 where it was a 3 way pre-flop all in me AKs vs 66, vs A5o.    6 hit his set on the flop and the 5d in the A5o hand became a straight flush. lol.  but well above +200 in all the other sessions. 

planned on playing for 2-3 hours yest.   very first hand Im in CO with A6o, live $5 straddle, like 4 limpers, I bump it to $30 and get 4 actual callers.  Flop is something like AQ7... they all check to me and I bet $45.... insta mucks all around. decent start...

1.5 rotations later, Im the button with KQss.  there was a live double straddle, 2 more limpers, I make it $50. get 4 callers, including the BB who doesnt like to fold. 

flop is Ah-Jh-Td... thats nice. checks around to me, I bet out $50. the BB, 2nd straddle both call... and im thinking to myself... dealer throw out a low black card..... 

3c on the turn... perfect. checks around to me again, I bet out $200 to charge the draws and after 2 mins... BB yeets it all, other guy folds.   i call. he wants to run it twice...  both boards end in a heart... and Im dead.... except he mucks and I get more than a full doubleup. 

played for another hour, no major hands, was about to leave when this lady player shows up... normally shes a drunk saturday night player who will literally call with anything or nothing on the river if the bet is reasonable enough.  she is free money-until she isnt.   i tell myself  im not leaving till ive felted her 2 or 3 times.   problem is... more than half the table knows her as well and they all had the same thought. 

she hung around winning and losing for the next 2 hours, im literally limping and calling anything $25 or less if she is in the pot because I know if I hit anything, im getting paid.  i had like 3 or 4 hands with her where I won a pot that was +150ish to me...but those were basically cancelled out by the numerous $15-20 calls I made that didnt pan out. 

she is finally stacked by another player, and I have been playing for 5 hours. and i tell the guy to my right who also was trying to get into hands with her, that Im leaving in a sec. 

theres a live $10 straddle, guy to my right makes it $30.  I look down at KxKc.... make it $70, get a call from the straddle and guy to my right.

flop is Jc-2c-8x. checks to me, I bet out $175.  straddle folds... guy to my right says... well.... I guess I have to be all in... ~350 and ive known him enough to know that wasnt a set talking.... so I snap call...   hes got AcQc.... I offer twice.. he declines... and in a poker miracle, no club no running KT, no Ace. 

in for $300, out for $1440. 

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On 5/29/2025 at 2:45 PM, blacklab said:

Lodge now charging a $5 daily fee even if you paid monthly/annual already.

Also collecting time pre rather than post.

I think that's just Lodge San Antonio. They didn't charge me a daily in Austin

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What do you guys think of Kahbrel's antics? I used to hate the guy a couple of years back when he was deliberately being weird and adversarial and trying to give others the impression he was cheating (faking marking cards etc) in order to throw them off, but he seems to have made an effort to shift his table talk strategy from that to just being a happy-go-lucky incessant talker.

Obviously I was playing with him it would probably be annoying, but I think it lends some much needed entertainment value to these high roller tables that are often silent and boring to watch.

 

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I saw this hand today and, while I have no experience playing a four-bet pot against Patrik Antonius, I'm never checking that turn heads up in position with that exact holding. Maybe that makes me exploitable. 

 

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I saw this hand today and, while I have no experience playing a four-bet pot against Patrik Antonius, I'm never checking that turn heads up in position with that exact holding. Maybe that makes me exploitable. 
 

Getting checkraised there is a disaster spot, he’s only getting one street of value from hands he beats and can induce bluffs on the river.
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12 hours ago, blacklab said:

I can't stand him, he does shit like this just to annoy people.

He also will just sit there till someone calls the clock on him

 

Yeah I think it's fair to hate him. And he shouldn't do shit like that. I think the table talk is entertaining, though.

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25 minutes ago, TXSooner518 said:


Getting checkraised there is a disaster spot, he’s only getting one street of value from hands he beats and can induce bluffs on the river.

Agreed, checking back is fine in that spot.

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