StevieG
05-08-2005, 12:16 AM
I had a short business trip in Wichita Falls, TX this past week but managed to squeeze in a trip to Comanche Red River Casino just across the border in Devol, Oklahoma.
The room is very new. There are 19 tables, no shuffle machines. Brand new chairs, leather, well padded, comfy. It is a smoking room. Chips feel like they came out of a crate that morning.
Cocktail service was fine, I paid $1 for a 12oz draft Shiner Bock, and they came by often enough.
They were spreading 1/2 NL HE with a $100 max buy-in, 2/5 NL HE with a $200 max buy-in, and 4/8 limit HE. Only one table of limit. Seated up to 9 players, rake up to $5. I waited a while to sit at the limit table.
Good game. Often 6 or more to the flop, I was the only one raising pre-flop.
The pace was slow because players were mulling over decisions, and the lack of auto shufflers. No fault of the dealers, though. They were all just fine.
I finished down 12BB in just under a couple hours. I was fortunate enough to see good starting cards (QQ, JJ twice, AQo, 88, KQs) only to have either flops miss me or get run down. That's how it goes sometimes. The game was good enough that I would love to get back. By then maybe I'll feel good enough about my no-limit skill to sit down in that game.
The room is very new. There are 19 tables, no shuffle machines. Brand new chairs, leather, well padded, comfy. It is a smoking room. Chips feel like they came out of a crate that morning.
Cocktail service was fine, I paid $1 for a 12oz draft Shiner Bock, and they came by often enough.
They were spreading 1/2 NL HE with a $100 max buy-in, 2/5 NL HE with a $200 max buy-in, and 4/8 limit HE. Only one table of limit. Seated up to 9 players, rake up to $5. I waited a while to sit at the limit table.
Good game. Often 6 or more to the flop, I was the only one raising pre-flop.
The pace was slow because players were mulling over decisions, and the lack of auto shufflers. No fault of the dealers, though. They were all just fine.
I finished down 12BB in just under a couple hours. I was fortunate enough to see good starting cards (QQ, JJ twice, AQo, 88, KQs) only to have either flops miss me or get run down. That's how it goes sometimes. The game was good enough that I would love to get back. By then maybe I'll feel good enough about my no-limit skill to sit down in that game.