well why dont you try and get the poker club to try some small (£50-£300) freezeouts also to try some different games a little bit of PLO and PLO8 as well as stud will give guys a break from holdem nothing drastic once a month or somthing
if they put on a £100-£300 PLO or PLO8 freezeout i might even travel down for a game
Mikky to be honest we are thrying to get away from the types of Play/structure/times of the river boat - we are trying to get the opposite actually
Rod, stick to the plan mate, we will manage to get plenty for 8pm start
Ironside, i dont play anythinbg but Texas Hold'em tourneys
Couldn't agree more... The problem is that the riverboat has always had to contend with is, management actually want to change the prize structure, but the last time they did it, 2 of the regulars went nuts after it went to a chip count, 5 prizes, but they demanded their 50%/30% prizes as the prize structure had just been changed... so they changed it back again :/
With the times, I'm unsure why they are unwilling to move the times. What pisses me off is that the other clubs are all trying to run a similar game, competing by just being clones of each other... hmm, yeah like that will work.
They are losing players to the Maybury over in Edinburgh. The likes of Trento, Ellen, Rob Gillion will go over to Edinburgh and pay because for the same amount of money you are getting a much bigger prize pot (more players & deeper pockets means more rebuys) and also Maybury are now doing 2 £50 games a week.
From September, the Tuesday game at the riverboat will now be £50 every week (to compete with CinCin's £20 + cash added to the kitty).
I'd love to see more freezeouts and double chance games being introduced. The biggest thing we need to do is bring more players into the game. The old timers are too set in their ways to do anything about changing, so the only way to bring players in is as you say, change the times and the game formats to cater for their needs.
Who knows, you may also see some crossover. I'll still be playing the £5 Monday riverboat bingo nights, but there's plenty of other days of the week
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