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Memorable Defunct Poker Rooms (Live And Online)


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Come in and talk about what you liked and didn’t like about long gone poker rooms (both brick and mortar, and online sites).

 

One of my favorite defunct brick and mortar rooms was the old Las Vegas Hilton room. I had my biggest live win there. It was relatively quiet and usually had close parking. The room just had a relaxing vibe. I also played against Hall of Famer Tom McEvoy a few times in that room.

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Poor Tom. AK never holds up for him.

(Ace rag) held up for him against me.
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I also liked the old Holiday Casino (shaped like a Showboat) poker room; now Harrahs. It had some senior citizen world class rocks in its old 4-8 limit game who were easier to read than Dick and Jane 1st grade books.

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There was this one site, that had really nice software but not much action, Poker Mountain. TJ Coultier was their big celebrity endorser... It didn't stick around very long, I guess hitching your wagon to a old texas road dog like TJ isn't exactly the way to attract online players.

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There was this one site, that had really nice software but not much action, Poker Mountain. TJ Coultier was their big celebrity endorser... It didn't stick around very long, I guess hitching your wagon to a old texas road dog like TJ isn't exactly the way to attract online players.

Cloutier's adage "If you limp with Aces, you don't go busted with Aces," was pretty good advice. I might have checked out Poker Mountain if I knew he was an endorser. Too late now.
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Bruce Buffer's poker room at the luxor was like my personal atm for a couple of my vegas trips. I think the most tables I saw going there was two unless it was nightly tourney. but game was always cushy.

 

the poker room at hard rock was always a blast. i remember sitting down with a bunch of Fins once. we wanted to keep the game closed so the room said they would just call it a short handed table so no one else could sit until one of us left. we had all kinds of side action going and were doing things like the entire table taking shots when someone was all in etc.

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Cloutier's adage "If you limp with Aces, you don't go busted with Aces," was pretty good advice. I might have checked out Poker Mountain if I knew he was an endorser. Too late now.

 

With advice like that, it's so weird that he went busto.

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On 12/17/2015 at 12:15 PM, BigDMcGee said:

With advice like that, it's so weird that he went busto.

Speaking of busto, I believe it was Doyle who wrote about how (King 9) got the name "the sawmill" hand.

 

Apparently this is a true story and goes something like this. Two guys were driving back to Houston from Dallas after playing in a big No Limit game. The guy in the passenger seat is upset with himself because he went broke with King 9. They drive by a sawmill where a guy is working out in the lumber yard. The guy who went broke looks at the worker, shakes his head and says, "Jeez, that guy working at that sawmill wouldn't have gone broke with King 9.

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Speaking of busto, I believe it was Doyle who wrote about how (King 9) got the name "the sawmill" hand.

 

Apparently this is a true story and goes something like this. Two guys were driving back to Houston from Dallas after playing in a big No Limit game. The guy in the passenger seat is upset with himself because he went broke with King 9. They drive by a sawmill that's up on a hill. The guy looks up at the mill, shakes his head and says, "Jeez, those guys working at that sawmill wouldn't have gone broke with King 9."

 

False. IT was Cowboy Wolford #KnowYourRoadGamblers

 

Well, Doyle might have wrote about it, but it was cowboy that story was about.

 

https://books.google...Everett&f=false

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False. IT was Cowboy Wolford #KnowYourRoadGamblers

 

Well, Doyle might have wrote about it, but it was cowboy that story was about.

 

https://books.google...Everett&f=false

Actually what I said wasn't false, so you were incorrect. I said the story goes "something like this".
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did you read the rest that post you quoted?

I didn't read the external url you brought in, what does it say that's relevant to my post #13
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I think someone's just a little jealous of my superior knowledge of Texas Road gamblers.

Just remove the word "false" in post #12 so it's not a non sequitur.
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Of course the legendary Stardust poker room is defunct as is unfortunately the hotel and casino. Actually there was nothing special about the look of the room but it was "the" place to play for high stakes poker in Vegas during the mid-1980's. Johnny Chan honed his skills in that room and eventually won the WSOP main event in 1987, 1988, and came in 2nd to a young Phil Hellmuth in 1989. A remarkable feat that will probably never be repeated. Yes, the Stardust poker room will always hold a special place in the heart of the players of that era.

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Of course the legendary Stardust poker room is defunct as is unfortunately the hotel and casino. Actually there was nothing special about the look of the room but it was "the" place to play for high stakes poker in Vegas during the mid-1980's. Johnny Chan honed his skills in that room and eventually won the WSOP main event in 1987, 1988, and came in 2nd to a young Phil Hellmuth in 1989. A remarkable feet that will probably never be repeated. Yes, the Stardust poker room will always hold a special place in the heart of the players of that era.

 

David Williams is another man that has an appreciation for remarkable feet.

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David Williams is another man that has an appreciation for remarkable feet.

I guess I'm guilty of following the screenwriting rule of never worrying about spelling or grammar when writing. That can usually be fixed when proofreading. But I guess the grammar and spelling police will always be lurking online.
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I guess I'm guilty of following the screenwriting rule of never worrying about spelling or grammar when writing. That can usually be fixed when proofreading. But I guess the grammar and spelling police will always be lurking online.

 

Look man, I'm the last person to give a shit about prescriptive grammar and usage, I truly am. But any chance I get to make a David Williams foot fetish reference, I'm going to take it.

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How about defunct online sites. One of my favorites was PokerRoom.com . I liked it's green coloring. It can trace its beginning back to 1999-- practically ancient history.

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sounds like a good scene for your next script.

There will be no next script unless someone pays me upfront to write one. If you can't get the major studios to look at a script that's won 3 honors what's the use.
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