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Today I am putting my house up for sale. Sometime soon I will say good-bye to theMississippiGulfCoastand move to theSherman,Texas area. That is about 60 miles north ofDallas. My two years as a working pro down here have been successful, but love has conquered me, and I will be marrying my childhood sweetheart. I will get an “honest” job, but would still like to play poker occasionally, like maybe a couple of nights a week. I have never played in home games before.

1.  Can any one give me any tips on where to find a low limit game?

2.  Any tips on playing home games as opposed to casino games?

Answer 1:

Your best bet for Casino poker isBossier City LA.The Horseshoe is one of the best poker rooms in the South. They give you $29 rooms and plenty of comps for food. They spread 4-8 up to high limits in holdem and plenty of action on all. They also have a poker room South of Memphis in Tunica MS. It is an excellent poker room also.  Jack Binion runs both and I highly recommend play there.

Answer 2:

Wayne, welcome toNorth Texas. There are many home games in theDallas area all the way from 3-6 up to 10-20 for the lower limit games. When you get located inShermanand are interested in finding out more about the games, give me note. Also, it is about a 3 hour drive fromShermanover to Bossier for poker at the Horseshoe.

Answer 3:

I live inHoustonand play everyday, I know of some games inDallas. You will find overall, atleast to my experience that you are treated better than in a casino.  The rake is higher usually than the casino, but for the recreation player, you get free meals and drinks. Plus you make some friends in the area to show you around so to speak.

Any suggestions for a good local card room inSacramentoCAfor a visitor who doesn’t want to get hometowned in a 1-table joint?

Answer 1:

Some ofSacramento’s players are still relatively new to holdem. So you’ll find plenty of no foldem holdem. About six years ago the town as still all lowball. I haven’t been there since January. But the Sun Downer was my favorite. And they’ve got the $20 limit lowball action. But now they’ve got holdem also. The Lucky Derby is a good place to play. There used to be many, many card rooms inSacramento.

Answer 2:

Usually two tables going, Omaha & Hold’em. Mostly 3/6, bigger games occasionally when there’s interest (for a while they had the biggest game in town spreading a 15/30 Hold’em on tuesday nights, but it has fizzled out). Scores low on incidentals (food, etc.) PhoenixLounge: one or two tables of 4/8 Hold’em. On rare occasions a 6/12.  Very good food/drink. Friendly place. River city: one or two tables, mostly Hold’em (3/6, 4/8) but will spreadOmahaor Lowball with interest. Saturday night has tournaments and usually gets a 6/12 going plus two tables of 4/8. Pretty good incidentals. Make sure you check out my picture on the wall (won anOmahatournament). Sundown: 5-6 tables of Lowball (6 and 20) and small-stakes hold’em (2/4, 3/6). Bad neighbourhood, mediocre food. Basically a dinosaur pen. Silver Fox: one table of 4/8 Hold’em. Wildest game in the country; pots capped routinely with anything. Very dangerous, though, as collusion seems to be tolerated as is speaking Vietnamese. I wouldn’t play here unless you have developed very good skills at reading when you are being sandwich-raised and can sit quietly on the nuts while they bet for you. If you get steamed at bad beats, stay far, far, away. Very, very bad neighbourhood as well.  Decent food. Rancho’s club: One table, occasionally 2 of Ohama/9 (yes, 9). Lots of loose aggressive play. Some Friday nights he spreads a 5/10Omaha.  Very bad neighbourhood, mediocre food (except when owner Ruben brings in his own home-cooked Mexican food).

Answer 3:

The Lucky Derby has had its Tuesday night $15 & $30 Hold-’em game up a running for at least the past two Tuesdays, October 12 & tonight, October 19, 1999. The game usually starts right around 8 PM.

I plan to take a trip to Vienna in the near future.  I would be interested in playing in a tournament or two (I prefer no limit HE events) while I am there. Can anyone provide me with information on where to play, types of tournaments available, etc.? I would also be interested in information on ring games that are available.

The ‘official’ casino operation company (where you will also find BJ, roulette, craps and slots):

Answer 2:

In Vienna there are two main poker clubs – The Concord and Poker World.  They both are open 24 hours, have lots of cash game tables, and run regular tournaments with buy-ins ranging from ATS100($8) to ATS500 ($40).  The $40 tournaments usually have a prize pool guarantee of ATS100, 000 ($8,000) and are run on Tuesdays & Saturdays at 7:00 pm at the Concord and Fridays at 8:00 pm at Poker world. The concord is known for regularly having ATS100-200 Stud and HE tables running, while Poker world has lower limits usually 20-40, 30-60 and 50- 100.  Both offer Pot Limit Omaha, typically with 2 blinds of ATS 50 and a buy-in of ATS 2000.  The Omaha games come and go, depending on the mood of the players at the time.  Best times are tournament nights as well as Monday nights, don’t ask me why. There are also government-run casinos in Vienna, Velden, Baden, Seefeld, Bregenz, Innsbruck, and maybe other places as well, but these have limited hours, limited number of tables, the rakes are high, the toke expectation is ridiculous and the personnel treat you like you are there to serve them and not the other way around.  I personally avoid these like the plague. I think another poster gave the websites of the above casinos.  In addition there is http://eppa.bigfoot.com which is the site of the European Poker Players Association (EPPA) – worth checking out.

Answer 3:

For a list of upcoming major tournaments in Austria and the rest of Europe, go to <http://www.yeayou.com/pokertour> This is a travel website I operate for major poker tournaments in Europe (primarily) with descriptions of the events.