So Foxwoods isn't the only poker room on Earth with Stalinist oppressionist rules: check out this shit from the Tropicana.
I notice on Friday morning as I'm playing 2-5NL, there's a pot in which I raise to $25, and I get called 3 times before it's reraised to $65. I see the dealer pulling out chips for the rake (10% up to $4). Now, the action is coming back to me, and this is my fucking pot, so I ask him, "You are pulling the rake already, even if there's no flop?"
"Yes, the money is committed to the pot," he tells me...
I shake my head and re-raise to $200... Anyway...
Later that night, different table, different dealer, I find AA and raise to $20. Everyone folds, and the dealer pushes me SIX dollars. I look at him, staring at the $6, like "What the fuck?"
"10% rake: $1 for rake." He knows exactly what I'm looking at.
"You do NOT rake the pot when someone steals the blinds," I'm in shock.
"Yes sir, that's the rule. Your $20 raise is really a call of $5 and then a raise of $15. When you have called the $5, there is $12 in the pot." Seriously - the Trop is really trying to TILT me, but I'm from the "nothing fazes Bill Gazes" school.
"You're kidding, right?" I can't believe it.
"No sir."
I later track down a floorman to confirm this, and the shift supervisor confirms that the dealer was correct.
Fahhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkk.
-KD
I notice on Friday morning as I'm playing 2-5NL, there's a pot in which I raise to $25, and I get called 3 times before it's reraised to $65. I see the dealer pulling out chips for the rake (10% up to $4). Now, the action is coming back to me, and this is my fucking pot, so I ask him, "You are pulling the rake already, even if there's no flop?"
"Yes, the money is committed to the pot," he tells me...
I shake my head and re-raise to $200... Anyway...
Later that night, different table, different dealer, I find AA and raise to $20. Everyone folds, and the dealer pushes me SIX dollars. I look at him, staring at the $6, like "What the fuck?"
"10% rake: $1 for rake." He knows exactly what I'm looking at.
"You do NOT rake the pot when someone steals the blinds," I'm in shock.
"Yes sir, that's the rule. Your $20 raise is really a call of $5 and then a raise of $15. When you have called the $5, there is $12 in the pot." Seriously - the Trop is really trying to TILT me, but I'm from the "nothing fazes Bill Gazes" school.
"You're kidding, right?" I can't believe it.
"No sir."
I later track down a floorman to confirm this, and the shift supervisor confirms that the dealer was correct.
Fahhhhhhhhhhhhhkkkkk.
-KD
2 comments:
I'm about to hit Vegas. I came back to reread this so I knew to avoid this shit. Please tell me the Wynn's games have no-flop/no-drop rule.
yes - Wynn and Mirage structures are normal - no flop no drop
and Bellagio finally fixed the buy-in on their 2-5NL game.. now $200-$500, where i believe it used to be just $300 min/max
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