Poker in Florida?
 

Anyone know? Going to the Tamba Bay area in June.

Thanks in advance,

KC

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Hard Rock Tampa. 1/2 and 2/2 LIMIT Hold em only. good luck.

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$2 is the maximum allowed bet in Florida.

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I have seen the people at the hard rock pay $8 each (capped) just to see their cards.. kinda stupid, considering your pretty much pot committed after that with any kind of out

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I was Just in Tampa.

The Hard Rock is about as bad as it gets. The room is decent, but the play is beyond bad. But for the couple dollars a bet - it's a good time.

If you want to play for some higher stakes, look into the boat cruises. There are a whole bunch over by Clearwater Beach, Maderia Beach, etc.

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I am too lazy to search but I have a post about florida poker titled Steamboatin's Florida Poker tour.

If you want real poker, the Ocean Jewel is out of St Pete. You take a shuttle boat out to a ship.

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in miami the hard rock casino, has ghey 1/2 limit, but it spreads 130, 250,540 buy in sng tournaments around the clock, and has $65 rebuy tournaments/$165/$300/$600 buy in freeze out multis with around 200+ players...

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Hard Rock isn't the only game in town. Derby Lane offers $2 games ($2 on all streets) and $45 tournaments, mostly NLHE. I don't know about the juice, since it doesn't say on their Web site, and I've never played there - I live 15 min. from Hard Rock.

Tampa's horse track, Tampa Bay Downs , also spreads a similar range of games, but only when the track is running. They close for the season tomorrow, May 8.

Track poker rooms, for the time being, can only deal while their original game runs, be it dogs, horses, or jai-alai. Hard Rock is 24/7.

I've never understood why everyone throws such a fit about Hard Rock not being "real" poker. I mean, if a guy sitting next to me wants to raise with any ace, and call with any card of a spade royal to try and hit the jackpot, I will gladly take his money. Sure, every now and again you get your aces cracked by 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]4 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], like I did last night, but if in the long run, I will win those sort of hands and profit, right? I thought the alternative, a table full of rocks who know how to play properly and profitably, was a "bad" game - am I wrong? Give me a table full of chip-spewing maniacs any day.

Also, one note about Hard Rock I didn't see - smoking is encouraged. The room is a hazy cloud - next time I go I'm taking a mask. At the tracks, smoking is not allowed at the table.

Oh, and Hard Rock now has $30+$10 (yes, that's right, $10 to the house, or 33%) sit-n-go NLHE tournaments. The problem? The prize is a ticket to their $200+$40 weekend tournies. Second gets a refund. They also offer an assortment of tournaments, all of which have ridiculously high house fees.

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Oh, and Hard Rock now has $30+$10 (yes, that's right, $10 to the house, or 33%) sit-n-go NLHE tournaments. The problem? The prize is a ticket to their $200+$40 weekend tournies. Second gets a refund. They also offer an assortment of tournaments, all of which have ridiculously high house fees.

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So it's really a $28+$12?

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As a matter of fact, you're right. They call it a $30+$10, but $20 of the prize pool isn't awarded, making it, in effect, $28+$12. Which makes it that much more ridiculous.