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Have found myself back in the UK but still some distance from a casino. I'm pretty much slap bang in between Bristol and Reading (both an hour away),but the bigger better casinos are a couple of hours away. I've always had a casino fairly close by, so its a bit of a new one for me to consider.

I'm very limited for a weekend hits (kids), but want my 'live' fix. Obviously though travel costs/time need to be taken into account for proper BRM.

It got me to wondering just how far people travel for their regular mid week games (not the big tours/DTD etc) and if me driving 1 + hours is excessive...

As an aside, has anyone got any thoughts on Bristol Gala or Maxims Reading?

Depends how much value you put on the entertainment aspect. Without that, travelling long distances for small buy in comps has to be -EV imho.

Can rarely be arsed mid week nowadays........

Hey. I regularly travel to DTD from home which is one hour away from my home. I don't have family commitments so I dont have that issue to think about, and regarding the drive, although it is definitely not a great idea - especially with the rising costs of petrol, I actually quite like it. Can remember several nights where I've had the drive home to be either excited about a big winning session or can just chill if things haven't gone so well. As was said above though it really depends on how much you value the entertainment side of it, I make my "bill-paying money" online but really love playing live so much better, so for me personally, I find the travelling costs worth it. As someone who says they need their "live fix" i suspect u might be the same :)

id travel to play live if i lived within an hour of DTD but as i dont i just cant be arsed because there are too many bellends that i dont want to share a table with in london.

10 minutes. I used to travel about 15 minutes. That's the most i'd be happy with. Any longer and I wouldn't be playing very often.

If you are going to travel that far it is worth going just a little bit further to Maidenhead http://maidenheadpoker.co.uk/ (http://maidenheadpoker.co.uk/)

LOL.  I live 15 minutes from DTD, and wouldn't consider that journey much of a chore.  You must really hate travelling.

Used to travel 40 minutes to play at DTD, when I could have gone to Walsall or the Ricoh which were closer.  That said I was playing cash so guaranteed to be playing all evening, not sure I'd do the same for a standard mid-week comp (wouldn't be much fun travelling that far only to bust out early and spend more time travelling than playing).

+1

It seems to be compulsory in London for every poker table to feature a dull and unhygenic knobcheese who will just not STFU.

There is one dude that plays at the empire that tilts the fuck out of me. I've never heard a guy just talk and talk and talk so much about absolutely nothing........ >:(

There's absolutely no mid-week action worth speaking of in Essex, despite there being two casino's in Southend.

I travel down there most weekends to play some cash and the Sunday tourney at Maxim's.

We used to travel the m62 corridor 5 nights a week Playing £20-£50 rebuys with pots between £10-13k. Some nights would only involve an hour to Leeds or Bradford but a couple of nights would be 2 hour journeys from scunny to Manchester Stockport etc. These comps died off a couple of year ago and know I think only naps Sheffield on wednesdays gets anywhere near £12k pots on a school night. Once the pots drop below 8k then it's pretty hard to make a decent profit so ain't worth leaving the house for and you either play on line or do as I did and play bigger comps at the weekend and over 2 or 3 days

I just seen smahsed again has posted? I gurantee it is about travelling for £20 rebuys :)

personally I prefer not to travel too far on a school night as am work at 8 in the morning. however from Cardiff I would travel to Swansea or Bristol if there was a decent game on (i.e.There used to be a £100 1rb/add on on a  Tuesday in Swansea that got 80+ runners) but the 40 minute or so drive home was a killer as all I could think about was my alarm going off at 7.

Where abouts are you? Sounds like Swindon would be handy for you.

http://www.kcclub.co.uk/poker.aspx -looks er...limited but depends what you want

(Please note: new Members who wish to play poker need to register either online or in person 48 hours before they intend to play at KC's.)

Oh and Bristol Gala is  a fairly nice casino, mostly dealt but regs fill in when short of dealers. Standard is mostly poor with some notable exceptions. Cash games are pretty lively- both NLHe and Om Pl

Happy going to DTD which is around 80mins away from me any day of the week.

Love poker, so have done trips to Edinburgh in the car (about 6-7hrs) lasted 3hrs in the tournie  KK vs AA.  Had fun tho.

May not do that again mind, but driving is a big part of my job, so never bothers me distance or time.

lol. i'm runnin out of material.

only now you realise it?!

and went to vegas for wsop. day 1a was a thursday. does that count?

Tell us the one about the time you had JJ on a 7 9 J board on the bubble of the DTD 300 Jase.

I always love that one.

thats in the Joke section. idiot has QJ  i check min raise he jams i wink at tighty call him off and the turn comes 10 river 8. still stunned it came but thats pretty std.

i remember the boy band travelling down to stoke from Leeds for a £15 FO with 30 entrants and a crap strucutre. The good old days...

I used to travel 45 mins regularly for a game at walsall.

To add to what Rudders said (if you're indeed in swindon area) there's often poker tournaments at the matchplay snooker club in stroud (i think), and i think as well as the bristol and SW poker meetup group there's also a swindon poker meetup group, who both hold home games.

40-50 minutes to Luton for me depending on traffic (a bit less on the way home now there are no roadworks or speed cameras :))

Plenty of places closer, but not an enjoyable atmosphere.  I play poker because I enjoy it, not to make money though (which is just as well really....). If it were the other way round then I'd go somewhere more local with lots more value.

I'm not 100% sure on this Rudders, but I know a lot of the KC Club (Swindon) regulars, & I'm pretty sure that the Club is temporarily closed for now, being re-furbed or something.

I think Quinny told me, in fact.

JH is so gold.

This is not something you need a consensus on my friend. Do what makes you happy.

Have to agree