Crown Casino (Melbourne, Australia)
I recently spent a week playing tournaments at Crown Melbourne and played some cash games, when I was trying to find information on the poker games I found limited info so I figured I would post my newfound knowledge! I only played up to 5/10/20 NLHE and PLO.
Limits:
1/2-2/5 are always running and often at least one 5/5+ game. Limits 2/3 and lower are probably not beatable due to the rake.
Rake:
1/2 - $5/hr + 10%/$8 - $80 max buy-in. Don't play this.
2/3 - $5/hr + 10%/$8 - $200 max buy-in. Don't play this.
2/5 - $10/hr + 10%/$6 - $500 max buy-in.
5/5/str - $25/hr - $1000 max buy-in.
5/10/str - $25/hr - $2000 max buy-in.
5/5/str PLO - $25/hr - $1000 max buy-in.
5/10/str PLO - $25/hr - uncapped buy-in.
The 5/5+ games have live straddles and often get placed by all players when agreed upon.
Other games:
There were a few other games running during my stay at various times: 1/2 plo, 10/20 limit omaha, 20/40 limit omaha/hold-em, 25/50 plo, 100/200 plo.
Hope this helps!
A rare concession from Crown. The rake on 10/20 and 25/50 NLH and PLO has been reduced from 10% capped at $50 to 10% capped at $30.
A rare concession from Crown. The rake on 10/20 and 25/50 NLH and PLO has been reduced from 10% capped at $50 to 10% capped at $30.
Wasn't the earlier $10 cap already the highest in the world? The current rake is just legalized theft! I see them ripping $25 out of 2/5 pots and think the dealers should all be wearing stocking masks over their heads. Shame Crown shame!
Anyone know what kind of numbers the Sunday tournament has been doing?
There were 83 players at last Sunday tournament.
The 10th money seems around 1000 dollars.
The first place around 10000 dollars.
Last Sunday tournament had 120ish entries with about $14k up top.
I wish I knew it at the time because got there a bit later but need your members card and you need to buyin with casino chips for it.
Going back 15+ years, you have always needed a Crown card to register for tournaments,
But these days you need a card to play anything, so the queue to sign up for a card can be long. On NYE, I’d say people were waiting at least an hour.
I’m planning on playing the Wednesday tournament on Jan 24. Given the 7:15pm start, if things go as expected, I will probably be home by 9pm!
Given the structure, I don’t think it runs that late. I might play next week, not sure yet.
FYI it takes about 3 hours or more to get in the money.
I played the wednesday tournament at last month and got in to the final table .it was almost 12:30am,when I finished ( I got the second place.)
There were 215 entries at that time.so you need to leave enough time for the tournament if you are planning to get in the money.
Fair few players tonight talking about a Monday Night Terminator being added to the room's weekly schedule in two weeks. ~$300 buyin.
I do love myself a KO tourney 8-)
I am thinking about spending a few days there over CNY. Not primarily for poker, but anyways, just wanted to know with the crazy new laws I heard about can you still buy in and cash out AUD cash as a foreigner?
Terminator event starts Monday 29/1
I am thinking about spending a few days there over CNY. Not primarily for poker, but anyways, just wanted to know with the crazy new laws I heard about can you still buy in and cash out AUD cash as a foreigner?
First thing you need to get a Crown rewards card. Depending on when you go, this could take 1-2 hours, so get this done ASAP and ideally not at a peak time if you don't want to line up for a long time. eg. Feb 9/10, especially at night, would be a very bad time to sign up for a card. You will need to set a spend/loss limit (I think this is only on slots and electronic machines, not table games). A friend of mine asked what the maximum is, and she said, yeah, put that down.
I don't play anything other than poker but I will ask some questions at a Rewards desk when I'm next at Crown (prob this Wed/Thu). I think they might only issue cheques for payouts of $1,000 and above, but I'm not sure. This is not the case for poker, at least not for <$10k (not sure about $10k+).
Poker less than $10K AUD no paper work or forms needed for cash in and cash out
As Kerr mentioned, you need to sign up for a free players rewards card to play and get on the list. Go off peak like during the day, and walk around to find an empty crown rewards desk.
You’ll need to show your passport to get a members card, but that’s as far as it goes.
The biggest regular game that gets up is the 5/10 which often has a $20 straddle.
It’s normally very soft, softer than Macau 50/100 for sure. Most of the good pros have stopped coming since COVID, but you may be seated with a shark or two with 6 figure+ Hendon mob. Games very beatable though
2/5 is the smallest game thst runs at peak times, and it is probably one of the weakest 2/5s you’ll ever find
Have fun and tell us how you enjoy it
Thanks guys for the detailed explanations, very helpful. Still figuring the out the travel but will report back if I can make it.
Do you guys know if the tournament results are posted anywhere? I am not able to find them on hendonmob.
Back when the poker room was managed better, they were active on social media, their website would display tournament results and live cash game lists (without names), and HendonMob would get updated.
I have no idea if the current state of affairs is due to incompetence or Royal Commission restrictions.
TEMINATOR POKER Tournament
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