Quick Tahoe Trip Report

[Milky]

Thought I'd post this in case anyone is wondering about the games in North Shore. I don't think I've seen anything on 2+2 about it. Not a very exciting report but here goes [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

My wife and I got together with a couple friends of ours and we headed off to Tahoe for the weekend. We were staying in North Shore so it was a drive to get to any good cardrooms (namely Harvey's). We decided to check out the casinos at North Shore, hoping there would be a cardroom in one of them.

Luckily there was. The Golden Nugget has a "card room". I use the term loosely because it was two poker tables surrounded by slot machines and a bar. My friend and I got there around 11pm on Saturday night and both tables were full playing 2-6 spread limit. You could bet anywhere from 2-6 on any street and a raise PF would make it 8 to go. Not that bad of a format... My friend and I got our names on the list and we were told that we were behind two people. About an hour later we were seated. The game was filled with about 60% locals and 40% tourists and the competition was fairly soft. Ended up making about $35 which just about covered what I spent on video poker waiting for a seat at the table [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Also, we hit up Harvey's on Saturday. Definitely the place to play some poker when you're in Tahoe. Got there around 12pm and there were around 6 tables going. Had to wait about an hour for a seat and it was worth it. The play was pretty loose/passive and after someone hit the bad beat jackpot on my table (quad 8s were rivered by a straight flush) I was up about $150.

Overall it was another fun trip to Tahoe. We'll probably be going back in a couple months and staying in South Shore so we can get some more poker playing in.

[LetsRock]

It sure is funny how differnt people have different reactions to a cardroom.

As it turns out, I was in Tahoe on Staurday and played poker at Harveys for the afternoon. 2 of my friends were on the bad beat table when it hit.

We got there just before noon and we were all simply appalled that they had only 3 tables working (with 7 or 8 empty) and waiting list that was about 75 deep for the 3/6 (only games in progress), 20 deep for the 5/10 which had yet to have been spread, and a handful for the NL game (Also not yet spread.

We couldn't believe it when the brush siad something to the efect of "We can schedule the dealers, but we can't schedule the players." Huh?

To us that was totally unacceptable to have that many open tables with that long of a list on a Saturday afternoon. Very poor planning. ANother thing that was a little bit annoying was that a lot of the shuffle machines weren't working and they (management) just didn't seem to care. They lease those things for something like $500/mo/table. You think they would have been all over getting them fixed because it's costing them ~$80/hr in rake.

The action is good there though.......