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This poker room is great. The chairs are comfortable. The setting is nice. The dealers are good. The 1/2 games they run use only $1 chips and have a $100 max buy in and it plays like a 1/1 game, which I really like because the stakes are more reasonable. The management is friendly. I also played a tournament which was well run. You can't get alcoholic drinks from table service.
There's only one problem: the rake is too @#$% high. For the $1/2 game it's $4 PER HAND. Plus $1 for the promotion. And they always take the $1 for the promotion whether there is a flop or not. They just take the small blind every hand. The rake is just too high for the game to be anything but just for fun. I play for fun, but I like to try and win. If you get in 25 hands an hour, that's $100 per hour. Plus $25 for the promotional fund (which you theoretically should get back since you play for the BBJ).
Really irks me that what would otherwise be a great room just charges up the wazoo. If you're going to make it a flat fee per hand, charge $3 or $2. You're paying $14 or so an hour just to play poker. So this room is good if you don't care about that.
