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word... thanks!

I don't understand why people complain about timed rake. If you are getting 12 hands per down at a $5 rake per hand, that's $60 off the table every half hour. That's the same $60 that comes off the table with $6 per player per half hour. Granted, the max rake won't be taken every hand, but most dealers also are closer to 15-18 hands per half hour too. The difference is negligible imo.

Not to mention that every time I've ever played with a timed rake (granted this is only in AC), the players were all eager to do a time pot. Many players, even at higher limits, don't make any strategy adjustments whatsoever for a time pot hand, so it was pretty easy to implement a different strategy for those instances that would gain an extra edge.

Does Charlestown take a jackpot drop? If so, is that apart of timed rake or do the drop a buck every hand?

What do you mean by "timed pot" hand? Is that the last hand before rake is dropped? How is it any different from normal hand?

So I take that you like Charlestown?

I haven't been to dover downs yet. My cousin raves about the casino but he doesn't play poker. I heard it's a 4+1 rake there.

I bet the action is awesome during a NASCAR event there.

On a side note, Harrington poker room is total crap.

I'm Jmanslow as well.

Yeah, I'm going to be out soon. Best hand I've played was As10s and I only won the blinds with HC A.

ive got ~9500 and catching a few hands here and there

I have just been skating by, I've got 5K, but the hands I've been seeing have gotten slightly better.

Pointless to keep track as of now imo. Latest news is it wasn't getting added in

Gambling measure will never fly but good man for trying, IMO...

I usually do a lot better at 2/4 then 1/2 but I just don't usually have the money to burn if need be. 2/4 I found to be easier for my bluffs to push out people playing crap but I usually ended up with more aggressive play but I don't know I've seen it play out a bunch of different ways. One difference I liked is usually with a raise I would end up with very few people in a hand and not everyone trying to play anything

I wouldn't say that it's they are too dumb to beat, but more or less that they are too dumb for you to be able to determine the optimal line a lot of the time. They don't understand things such as relative hand strength which often times either makes you either miss out on value or value town yourself. I've seen awful players confidently value bet a flush on a double paired board and I've also seen players not raise the 2nd nut flush after they backdoored it on unpaired boards. These things always make playing against really terrible people tricky, but tricky in the sense that they are so bad that you aren't quite sure if you should bet, raise, call, or fold in certain spots.

I don't know how many of you were around when I won a freeroll tourney at the Sands (RIP) in AC, but this was the exact scenario.

The Sands would hold a monthly (I think it was monthly) freeroll tournament for slot players. It was a vehicle to get them in the casino. Only the final table cashed 9-3 getting $1K, 2nd getting $2.5K and 1st $15K. The one I was in had about 250 players. I lucked into an invite.

The challenge was that no one knew the value of a hand. All raises were called by multiple players. You also couldn't get a read on their hand strength because they viewed many marginal hands as strong (A/9, KJ). You couldn't be aggressive unless you had cards. There was only one way to play it. Wait for premium hands and bet big.

Point is, in this case, in a room full of awful players you couldn't "outplay" them (to an extent). You had to catch cards to win.