Re: [ba-poker] Baby No-Limit Hold'em Game at Lucky Chances

[Michael Keohan <mkcards(deleted the rest)>]

Any comments on the 10-10-20 NL game at Lucky Chances?

What do you think of that one in comparison to the
"baby" one?

Thanks...Mike

--- Alan Bostick <abostick(deleted the rest)> wrote:
> 
> Lucky Chances Casino, in Colma, California, is now
> spreading a
> small-buyin no-limit Texas hold'em game.
> 
> The structure is $1 blind on the dealer button, $1
> middle blind and
> $2 big blind, with action starting at $4 to go.  The
> minimum buy-in
> is $40 and the maximum is $100.  You can only buy
> more chips if you
> have less than $100 in front of you, and only enough
> to bring your
> stack up to $100.  Unlike the larger NLHE games at
> Lucky Chances,
> players may not kill, and new players do not need to
> post to get a hand.
> 
> Except for the blind structure, peculiar to Northern
> California lowball
> and NLHE games, the game is structured identically
> to the no-limit
> games one finds at online poker sites, such as
> PokerStars or 
> UltimateBet.
> 
> Lucky Chances' management is clearly hoping to
> capitalize on the
> interest in no-limit hold'em generated by poker
> games on television
> such as the World Poker Tour.
> 
> I am told that they began to spread the game last
> Wednesday (April 7).
> On Friday night, the game was lively and spirited,
> with a significant
> list of players waiting to get in.  The quality of
> play was about what
> you might expect, i.e. terrible ? not quite as bad
> as you'd find in the
> dime-and-quarter-blind games on PokerStars, but
> still pretty easy to 
> beat
> over time.  Be prepared to weather some outrageous
> beats, but on the 
> whole a
> nd overall solid play is going to win the money.
> 
> I have no clue whether or not the game is going to
> be sustainable.
> No-limit poker is notorious for the ease with which
> the better players
> can take the poorer players' money.  The game might
> burn out its player
> base really quickly.  On the other hand, if no-limit
> hold'em on 
> television continues to attract new players into
> cardrooms, this game 
> might turn out
> to be sustainable over the long haul.
> 
> Grab your rods and reels and your best lures, folks!
>  The fish are 
> biting
> at Lucky Chances.
> 
> --
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