Poker in Perth

[gundog]

Getting to Perth was a long drawn out saga, the aircraft was an hour late for boarding, then we sat in the plane fror another 20 mins while the baggage handlers unloaded the baggage as there was a miscount of the luggage,they finally found the missing bag.

We arrived in Perth around 4.30, bus to Burswood Holiday Inn, get the room keys chuck my bags in the room and head over to the Casino to register for their Monday $30 rebuy event. Just as I get to the counter to register I get told I have just missed out by a minute, oh carp!

Oh well dinner is in the Carvers dining room in the Casino, it's one the those all you can eat for 16 bucks, so I filled my guts up with an array of tasty food before returning to the Poker Room to get on a 2/3 table.

I played for about 4 hours with my chip stack getting not much over $180, its around 1am I'm on the button and delt pocket Kings, the player UTG raised to $50, she has been betting big like that often holding small/medium pockets or AK AQ, everyone folds around to me, I think my Kings are good so I jam all in for $180, she tanks it for a minute or so chatting to me trying to gain info, in the end she calls and shows QQ, the flop has a Q, the turn and river dont help me at all, thats it for down $100.

Tuesday is taken up with a conference and dinner all day and well into the evening.

[gundog]

Wed I finally surface around 9 not feeling the best, so the day was spent relaxing by the pool (It was 24 deg here) taking my medicine in brown bottles, I decide not to play the Casino tonight surfing the net for a pub game somewhere the are 2 pub providers in Perth WA Poker League and another one who;s name we don't mention.

WAPL games were both a fair way out of town, so I decided to play with the other mod, to their credit they excellent and very professional staff hosting the night.

On arrival at the venue in Northbrigde, I was given the option of playing the Free Roll or the Pro series $30 buyin, both events start at the same time, I decided to play the pro game as according to the venue staff they take the poker fairly serious where the freeroll was less serious a bit of a giggle. I busted out in 16th from a field of 35, there was about 27 freerollers.

An interesting side game which is fully licenced and legal, they run a 2/3 table just like the Casino, the table starts while players are registering and at the start of the other game it shuts down untill the first break, this table is to be a fund raiser for a charity or sporting club, how it works is the rake is 10% to a max of $25 of each pot, I'm not sure exact split between the provider and the charity but I think it was something like 80/20 in the charities favor.

[bennymacca]

$25 of each pot!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

WHAT THE FK?

[Larx36]

$25 of each pot!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

WHAT THE FK?

I'm guessing he means 10% of pot capped at $25 giving max rake of $2.50 per pot?

[AceLosesKing]

$25 of each pot!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

WHAT THE FK?

I'm guessing he means 10% of pot capped at $25 giving max rake of $2.50 per pot?

This is what I took it as, otherwise wtf.

[bennymacca]

that would be capped at $2.50 then

[gundog]

no 10% with a max rake of $25.

ie if the pot has less than $10 its nil, to get 25 the pot needs to be $250 or greater

[bennymacca]

no 10% with a max rake of $25.

ie if the pot has less than $10 its nil, to get 25 the pot needs to be $250 or greater

that is a ridiculous amount of rake

[Caleb]

who in their right mind would play that?

assuming the buy-ins are the same standard $2/$3 buyins ($200 max) you'd be looking at 1/8th a buyin of rake in a capped pot.

Stuff that.

Adelaide looks golden in comparison.

If I wanted to support said charity/sporting club I'd just hand them money, not money off my stack that prohibits me from potentially making more money.

[gundog]

who in their right mind would play that?

assuming the buy-ins are the same standard $2/$3 buyins ($200 max) you'd be looking at 1/8th a buyin of rake in a capped pot.

Stuff that.

Adelaide looks golden in comparison.

If I wanted to support said charity/sporting club I'd just hand them money, not money off my stack that prohibits me from potentially making more money.

I think most are missing the real point, this is a 2/3 game in a pub, this puts them up against the Casino in some respect so I assume the rake is detirmined by the WA Govt. Just for comparisin Burswood also has a 10% rake capped at $12.

How is the pot capped in NLH?, from my perspective if there was a2/3 game available in the outer burbs and country I'm sure it would be popular as was the game last night it had 3 or 4 on a waiting list to join.