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The good:
* The room is conveniently located to Fort Myers and Naples -- just a few miles off exit 116 on 75, halfway between both places.
* Very good dealers here -- I've never seen a dealer here out of line, aside from one who tried to lecture me about having a raisable stack in my hand when I went to put out a call that I verbalized *before* my stack crossed the betting line (I was shuffling $60 in $5 chips, bet was $20 to me, I said "call," and used the chips in my shuffling stack to cut off a call of 4 chips. We did not have to call the floor.).
* Plenty of low-limit games available. On a Saturday night there's usually a dozen $1-2, a couple of $2-5, and maybe some $4-8 and $5-10 limit hold'em going.
* Beverage service is prompt and pleasant.
* Player mix in the low-limit games leans towards the tight-passive. I've only seen 2 or 3 people I'd categorize as low-limit semi-pros while playing here, and there's more degenerate gamblers here than that.
* The room is clean, well-lit, bathrooms are close (between the podium and the cashier's cage), and there's a covered smoking area outside if you indulge.
* Most of the time, there's a high-hand jackpot every half-hour, with payouts depending on the limit of the game the jackpot is won on. Jacks full or better, $20 in the pot, both hole cards must play. There's also a separate royal flush jackpot.
* The chips and tables are clean, feel well-maintained and new-ish.
The bad:
* Food is so-so. Surprising, because the food is provided by the Brass Tap in the same building, which is generally decent.
* You can eat the so-so food at the table. This wouldn't be a problem, except for the fact that there's regulars who LOVE to eat fish and chips, which is pretty smelly.
* The games, at least at the lower limits, are sometimes limp-fests. There's a lot of retirees playing for the high-hand jackpot and to kill time. You sometimes get grumbling for calling a $1-$2 hand where UTG limps and you raise to $10. "Ugh. But I could win high hand with this!" is a not-uncommon refrain ("then call the $10, grandpa.").
* The tables are weirdly high. I'm pretty tall, and they feel high to me; someone of average height might want to bring a cushion to boost their seat up!
* Rake is relatively high, 10% to $6, plus a $2 jackpot at $20 (unfortunately, this is the norm in Florida). Also, some dealers treat it as no-flop-no-drop, but I've seen some bring in a preflop raise that steals the blinds, pull a $1 for rake, and drop it. At a $1-2 game, that's 1/3 of the profit going down the drain!
* Sometimes there's a half hour or longer wait for seats -- if there's 5 names on the list, they won't open a new table (and ask existing players if they want to move to the new table), they'll just fill in seats as they come.
