Seattle-area folks, FYI

[Demana]

Silver Dollar Trip Report

Location
The Silver Dollar is easy to miss as the neon sign on 167 is small and obscured a bit by some trees. If you're going there, just take the first exit off of 167 South and turn right onto East Valley Road. Follow it North for 1 mile and the Silver Dollar will be on your right.

Service
The first waitress sucked. She hardly ever came by the poker table and was s l o w. Even the dealers bitched about her.

The second waitress kicked butt. She came by the poker room every 5 minutes and was very prompt with your order.

Food
They have a (small) $6 poker menu and will comp you for it if you are in a game.

Dealers
Friendly for the most part. Most were competent with only 2 mistakes: pushed one pot to the wrong person and mucked a guy's winning hand. Both mistakes were caught by the table and corrected.

Jackpots
No bad beat, but Monte Carlo jackpots for everything else with one $1125 jackpot for a royal flush and separate jackpots for each straight flush suit.

The jackpots were all fairly low (only three of them over $70) and they are slow to go up due to the low number of tables.

There is also a hourly high hand payout, minimum $100. It doubles if there are at least two 7 person games going and triples if there are three.

Tourneys
Daily $25 buy-in, $20 rebuy NL tourney.

Games
They have $3/6 games and will start a spread limit $2-6-12 game if there is enough interest. Soft games with lots of people chasing to the river. The only drawback is that in the 4 hours I was there, we had a full table once and two tables of 7 the rest of the time.

[jordanx]

I was out there last night...

The high hand bonus is pretty sweet. They had 3 tables going most of the night, so it was up to 300$ An Ace high flush won 200$ and before that, the fish to my right hit quad kings to win 515$ monte carlo + high hand right as he ran out of chips.

I, of course, got trash all night and spent about 10 hours losing all of 6$. I had to scrape and claw for any pots I did manage to drag. I did get a few beers and steak and eggs out of the deal though.

Not a bad place.

[heyrocker]

I am heading out there if anyone wants to come by. I have shortish dark hair, glasses, greying on the sides. Tall. My name is Greg. My first Seattle poker room, it better be cool or I'm moving back to the snow!

[plaster8]

Greg,

I think I was at your table for a while -- but I hadn't seen your post, so I didn't know to look for you. Sorry I didn't say hello. (I was the big guy with the red goatee.)

[jordanx]

I was out there tonight as well but didn't see your post until now. I managed to drag the high hand.

I was there from about 7 to 10, mostly at table 2 until it turned into the spread game.

P.S. how many racks did you take off the obliterated guy w/ the Seahawks gear?

[plaster8]

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how many racks did you take off the obliterated guy w/ the Seahawks gear?

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I don't know if this is the same guy (I was there from about 2-5), but a guy in a Hawks jacket hit the royal jackpot when I was there. He left, but may well have come back with his $1200 later on. Maybe he decided to blow some of his winnings ...

[jordanx]

Yeah, probably the same guy, he had about a grand in front of him when I sat down and dumped about 700 in under two hours.

His favorite move was to limp-re-raise or limp-cap with garbage.

I took down a large pot with AK-high. This guy was incoherently drunk and just giving chips away.

The table was compensating by playing overly aggressive on top of it, was a good game until he and a few others busted out.

I also hit the 200$ high hand + 68$ monte carlo w/ quad 5s.

Not bad.

[heyrocker]

Hey guys. I left around 8:00. I suspected who plaster was, since the logo on his jacket matched his avatar, but I didn't say anything because i wasn't sure. I missed Jordan because I was on the main table while he was on the side game.

The guy in the seahawks gear was hitting stuff while i was there, so he was killing us. A game like that is really frustrating. I'm not exaggerating when I say that 25% of the pots were capped preflop with 4+ players for a while. The freakishly agressive guy was literally capping with any 2, i saw him show down 84o (and hit the straight!) in a pot he capped preflop. All I could do was get in with really solid drawing hands and pray, because the pots were so big it didn't make sense not to call down any hand with outs. I mean, $100+ pots at 3/6 were not unusual at this table. Sadly I hit none of them and went through a pile in the five hours I was there, that is not the kind of game I'm most comfortable in. I need to remember that if I get in a game I don't like, there's other places to play. I'm not used to that prospect. I was doing OK before that guy showed up.

The high hand thing is a total draw, I'm definitely checking it out again. Hope to see you guys.

[plaster8]

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I suspected who plaster was, since the logo on his jacket matched his avatar,

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That's right -- Expos, baby! (Or maybe I should say Nationals, baby!)

Hope to see you out there again. I'm going to try to play as much as I can while they have this high hand thing going. It was pretty wild again tonight -- I was there for three hours, and one table (not mine) hit quads three times in one hour. Good times, especially with lots of EXTREMELY loose players.

[jordanx]

I'll be out there again this week also, I'll look out for you guys and try and say 'hi' if I see you.

I usually wear a Redsox hat, glasses and am wonder bread looking (white and soft).