The action and game selections are great for the most part. It is the largest room in Houston by far. Rake is 12$/hr but if you put 100 on your card at a time you get 12 hours worth of time. Which is a very good deal. As far as Covid goes masks are required and tables are 8 handed with no dividers. However a large percentage of masks aren't worn properly and some aren't worn at all so it is definitely not enforced properly. They have some unique pot limit Omaha rules to be aware of. If you are heads up on the river and bet more then the pot that bet is allowed to stand as a good bet unless the other player asks the dealer to take it down to the size of the pot himself. Also opening raise is allowed to be 5x instead of 4x. So if you are playing 5/5/10 opening raise is 50. However if someone limps and then someone raises pot the bet is still 50. You would have to get two limpers to raise to 60. They let you run it twice in NL and PLO but only one flop and two turns two rivers.
Johnny Chan's 88 Social
- Phone:
- (713) 434-6161
- Poker Tables:
- 65 Tables
- Minimum Age:
- 21
Announcements from Johnny Chan's 88 Social
Johnny Chan's 88 Social closed in December 2021. The same property has reopened (on December 28, 2021) under new ownership as 101 Poker Club Richmond. Visit https://www.pokeratlas.com/poker-room/101-poker-club-richmond-houston for information and live action at 101 Poker Richmond.
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