Other Australasian casinos (not Crown or Burswood)

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If anyone is in the Gold Coast on a Sunday at noon, or a Tuesday night at 8pm, they have tournaments running.

Sunday noon is a 30 player max (20 min), $200 buy-in. $4-$6k in the prizepool with top 6 (if 30 players) getting paid.

Tueday 9pm is a 20 player max (14 min), $100 buy-in, $1.4-$2k in the prizepool with top 5 paid. Winner gets $1k (if 20 players).

Might go down and check it out next week.
 

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Might actually start playing down the goldy, what do they do tournament wise???? anything????
 
$200 buy-in at 12 noon on Sundays, $100 buy-in at 8pm on Tuesdays.

Also play tournaments on Mondays and Wednesdays, not too sure what they're all about though.

Play $1/$2 (when busy) - $100/$250 buy-in. $2.50/$5 (going most of the time) - $200/$500 buy-in. $5/$10 - $500/$1000 buy-in.
 
TheTrav said:
Might actually start playing down the goldy, what do they do tournament wise???? anything????
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If you're heading down there, can you constantly hassle them about a few things:
- more tables
- more dealers
- drop this bullshit that you have to say raise to raise :rolleyes:
- stop the deck change bullshit where players have to take a break from the game
- don't allow ratholing, that is, taking money off the table (although that may have stopped)
 
FWIW, I've been 3/4 times in the last month and:

More tables - Valid concern, I had a chat to one of the guys working there and he said they're working on it, but it's hard because of space/dealer constraints.

More dealers - More dealers wouldn't necessarily be an increase in tables. The poker zone there is extremely small, with just 4 tables and then a further 2 in a separate room. There isn't really the space to increase it either (well there is, but they'd need to get rid of a few of the blackjack tables which are never in use).

I don't think you have to say raise to raise. I usually verbally announce my raises anyway, but I think a few people just put the chips in and it was considered a raise. If you put a $5 chip in and want to raise to $5 (playing $1/$2), you have to verbally say raise though, otherwise they just take it as a call.

Didn't change decks, just like normal casinos in that regard. Have 2 decks, rotate in the shuffler. They deal from a shoe though.

Still allow ratholing.
 
Maybe the raise situation has changed. But in the past, if the bet to you was say 25, and you put out 60 in chips in one motion, that would be a call if you did not say raise. This was a couple years ago before NLH was introduced and PLH was the big game.
 
I was in Jupiters Gold Coast on Tuesday, I would have been happy to drop some $ but with only 4 tables and a waiting list I couldn't be bothered, they didn't seem to have many tourists going through as all seemed like pretty regular locals in the time that i waited.

Like most poker players I'm not interested in playing their other games so the lack of tables is definitely a wasted opportunity for the casino.
 
As you probably know, I make a lot of plans and don't always follow through. Well, at least I did get to Vegas last year, I followed through there.

Latest idea is 6 days in Adelaide, stay at the Hyatt across the road from the casino, Adelaide Oval is a not-too-far walk from the hotel, and they play backgammon on Tuesday nights at the Hilton which is also not too far:

Code: 
Thu 03/12 - arrive
Fri 04/12 - 2nd Test Day 1; poker
Sat 05/12 - 2nd Test Day 2; whatever
Sun 06/12 - 2nd Test Day 3; poker
Mon 07/12 - 2nd Test Day 4; poker
Tue 08/12 - 2nd Test Day 5; backgammon
Wed 09/12 - depart
 
It's pretty decent at SkyCity.

Only s**t thing is that they don't start until 7:30 on weekdays, but if you're going to the test matches that shouldn't be a problem.
 

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fantastic_crows said:
FWIW, I've been 3/4 times in the last month and:

More tables - Valid concern, I had a chat to one of the guys working there and he said they're working on it, but it's hard because of space/dealer constraints.

More dealers - More dealers wouldn't necessarily be an increase in tables. The poker zone there is extremely small, with just 4 tables and then a further 2 in a separate room. There isn't really the space to increase it either (well there is, but they'd need to get rid of a few of the blackjack tables which are never in use).

I don't think you have to say raise to raise. I usually verbally announce my raises anyway, but I think a few people just put the chips in and it was considered a raise. If you put a $5 chip in and want to raise to $5 (playing $1/$2), you have to verbally say raise though, otherwise they just take it as a call.
Didn't change decks, just like normal casinos in that regard. Have 2 decks, rotate in the shuffler. They deal from a shoe though.

Still allow ratholing.
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Yes, if I'm going to raise I'll announce it, but I'm pretty sure you don't have to.

Fairly sure most people do announce a raise before putting chips in anyway, but... don't think it's a rule in there anymore.

But yep, your second point is right, if you want to raise to $5 in a $1/$2 game, you need to say raise when putting in a $5 chip, otherwise it's just a call of the BB and your change will come.
 
TorresIsGod said:
But yep, your second point is right, if you want to raise to $5 in a $1/$2 game, you need to say raise when putting in a $5 chip, otherwise it's just a call of the BB and your change will come.
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"An overchip is a call" is a fairly universal rule. I was playing 1/2 ages ago and thre out a 25, next guy also throws out a 25. Note that I never said raise, I needed to change down. SB calls, BB checks. SB flops trips and guy on my left stacks off with Aces. Silly boy.

I've also this situation. In a 2/5 NL game, MP raises to 10, button calls, BB has a 5 out and throws out a 25. I have seen the dealer say this is a call of 10, not a raise to 30, again, going back to the rule. Pays to know what the house rules are or to just verbalise your bet. Me being lazy prefer to not say how much I'm betting, I just put it out there.
 
red+black said:
"An overchip is a call" is a fairly universal rule. I was playing 1/2 ages ago and thre out a 25, next guy also throws out a 25. Note that I never said raise, I needed to change down. SB calls, BB checks. SB flops trips and guy on my left stacks off with Aces. Silly boy.

I've also this situation. In a 2/5 NL game, MP raises to 10, button calls, BB has a 5 out and throws out a 25. I have seen the dealer say this is a call of 10, not a raise to 30, again, going back to the rule. Pays to know what the house rules are or to just verbalise your bet. Me being lazy prefer to not say how much I'm betting, I just put it out there.
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IMO if the person grabs back the 5 then throws out the two chips together its a raise, if they add it on top its a call without the verbal.

Personally, if you are to lazy to make your intentions clear to the dealer you should take your medicine when you occasinally mess up...

And personally its the guys fault for flatcalling with Aces anyway...
 
It's actually a decent venue for playing poker. It'd be a lot better if it opened during the day, but decent amount of tables, never really a huge waiting list, and a fair few asian fish that go all-in with bottom pair and when you call and flip over the nuts say 'I put you on AK'.
 
fantastic_crows said:
It's actually a decent venue for playing poker. It'd be a lot better if it opened during the day, but decent amount of tables, never really a huge waiting list, and a fair few asian fish that go all-in with bottom pair and when you call and flip over the nuts say 'I put you on AK'.
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You know it's a good table when people say that.
 
Drummer_19 said:
You know it's a good table when people say that.
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Haha that's so true, last week playing on the same 2/3 table as my mate. He raised it up in LP button calls, flop came down 536r my mate puts out a pot sized continuation and the guy shoves in $250, mate calls and flips Aces, guy turns over A5os and said "I thought you had AK" - so bad on so many levels. My mates response "Oh yeh, it was always going to be AK or Aces, unlucky man" :p
 
I just stopped by Star City to get my bearings before tomorrow's tournament, and witnessed the biggest hand I have ever seen live.

The game was 10/20 No Limit Holdem with a buyin of 2-5k. There is a young guy (YG) sitting in front of me in seat two with a big stack that I estimate to be at least 10k, and former APPT winner Grant Levy (GL) shortstacked in seat 4. I picked up the action preflop, where the young guy (YG) had raised to about 120 UTG, and was reraised by GL to about 420 (leaving 1k behind). A middle eastern guy (MEG) on the button flat calls the 420. Now YG announces raise and throws a 1k chip on the table. GL goes all-in with his last 1k chip and MEG flat calls again. YG calls the 300 more. Pot is now nearly 4500. Flop comes Q:club:T:spade:3:club:. YG bets 2500 into the sidepot. MEG goes all-in for about 6k total. I catch a peek of YGs A:diamond:A:heart:, and the turn comes the miraculous A:club:. Miraculous, because MEG turns over his monster Q:heart:T:diamond: as the blank falls on the river. YG drags the $16000 pot with barely a murmur. Poker is so easy.
 
What the hell is the MEG doing there? Put him on Kings or Queens pre-flop, sick flop with justice on the turn. Grant Levy was (is?) a terrible player - at least what they showed in that APPT event.

Did anyone react at all? Surely a few words were said?
 
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