Yeah, same thing here. "Free" is only to get around the laws. This group brings the tables and chips, and most importantly the people, and the bar gives them a cut of the bar tab since they brought in a boat-load of people. This gives the group the ability to give away prizes. Last time it was a 40 dollar electronic dart board. One of the nice ones too.
They even have a "Tournament of Champions" at the end of the year. All the people who won a tournment throughout the year then play at the end of the year. The winner of the TOC tournament wins a trip to Las Vegas to play in some 1000 dollar satellite for the WSOP.
My experience has been that there are good players, but you gotta weed through the drunkards and loose players before getting to the truly good players. The final table is always solid play.
As for Think's post,,, I have the same complaints. The smoking just gets out of hand. I feel like I am the only non-smoker in the bunch, and I always come home feeling like I need to hose off before going inside.
All in all, its ok play, not great, not bad. I still prefer a home game.  |