Houston, TX Area Poker
This thread is for discussion of news/events in the Houston area, as well as a place to ask questions about poker in the area. This is also the place for discussions about the smaller card rooms in the area that do not warrant an individual venue thread.
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anyone know anything about clubs that aren't listed on pokeratlas? i drove by a place called "lucky aces" but they don't seem to be listed on poker atlas, what rooms like that are around and how many of them run cheap/free tournaments? are these places less likely to be quasi-legit?
There used to be a Lucky Aces in the Houston area but I thought it closed. I know they were running other casino games like BJ and Pai Gow as well as poker.
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I'm in Austin so haven't been to the Houston market to play yet.
What's the deal with Prime Social? Was looking at pics of the room and it looks stunning, but doesn't seem to get much traction?
I'm in Austin so haven't been to the Houston market to play yet.
What's the deal with Prime Social? Was looking at pics of the room and it looks stunning, but doesn't seem to get much traction?
Prime is in a location of Houston that is heavily saturated with other established rooms, notably two. From Prime, it's a 4 min drive to TCH Houston (not to be confused with TCH Spring on the northside) and 6 min drive to Legends. Legends has been well established for a few years now as the prime action spot for PLO in the downtown area. There were some pretty damning videos and accusations made some months ago, but Legends appears to not have suffered much at all. I haven't played at Legends in many months but would love for a reg there to comment on this (looking at you, Bull - I know you look at this once a week or so, damn it!)
TCH Houston opened up last year, and it did take several months, but they now have consistent 24 hour cash games, a daily $2/$2 PLO game as well as $1/$3/$6 popping off. I chalk up their increased traffic to their established brand as well as tournament hosting over the past year or so.
Aside from these rooms, there are three more I can think of off the top of my head that you can get to from Prime in under 8 minutes.
EDIT: Not sure how I left Champions Club out. Although 15 minutes away from Prime, Champions is also in the southwest Houston metro area and is very popular.
Prime is in a location of Houston that is heavily saturated with other established rooms, notably two. From Prime, it's a 4 min drive to TCH Houston (not to be confused with TCH Spring on the northside) and 6 min drive to Legends. Legends has been well established for a few years now as the prime ac
Was checking Poker Atlas last night and Prime had zero games running. And yeah, sounds like they have some stiff competition close by.
Champions I've heard great things about, but they don't seem to get more than 2-3 games running from what I've seen (outside of their series)
Houston poker is skirting the legal issues. I heard several rooms, including Capri, have started taking rake and eliminated the time charge. I saw a video of a raked pot there.
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Houston poker is skirting the legal issues. I heard several rooms, including Capri, have started taking rake and eliminated the time charge. I saw a video of a raked pot there.
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Not new news, really. Bulltexas clarifies earlier ITT that the majority of rooms are now raking. Only rooms we're aware of that still take time payment:
TCH Spring
TCH Houston
Prime Social (at least as of 5 months ago)
Spades - Webster location
TCH Houston is the spot right now. Legends still gets decent PLO action, but more and more faces from there are popping up at TCH.
Prime's demise is one of the great mysteries: game and cardroom running is an art and, despite a fantastic physical space, they've just collapsed.
How frowned on is it to try to actually freeroll the "freerolls" (as in not going for staff bonus, etc)? would it result in being banned if one were to make it a habit?
