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=== Games === |
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| + | '''[[No-limit spread-limit hold 'em]]:''' 2/4 blinds, spread is $4-$200 per bet. Max $200 buyin. Essentially, it's small stakes NLHE. Occasionally, a 3/6 kill game will get going, but usually it's spread now. |
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The spread limit game actually starts whenever enough people have busted out of that night's tournament and are ready to play. That usually happens around an hour after opening time. |
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'''Rake:''' $3 + $1 jackpot per hand; the rake is taken directly out of the pot after the flop. |
'''Rake:''' $3 + $1 jackpot per hand; the rake is taken directly out of the pot after the flop. |
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+ | '''Game Character:'''This is a small card room that is filled with pretty much only local regulars. They speak Spanish a lot, to each other and to the dealers and staff, though the game is nominally run in English, and most dealers make an effort to use only English, or at least repeat things in both languages. |
The game is pretty darn loose aggressive. |
The game is pretty darn loose aggressive. |
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Revision as of 08:10, 4 August 2006
Garlic City Casino
| Hours | Tue-Sat, 7pm until approx 2am |
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| # Tables | 4 |
| Address | 40 Hornlein Ct, Gilroy |
| Region | Bay Area, California, USA |
| Phone | 408-847-3777 |
| Website | (none) |
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 7pm until around 2am ("whenever enough people leave or get tired, we close"). Friday and Saturday, open at 5pm. Closed on most holidays.
Located on Monterey Rd, south of downtown, behind the "Taqueria La Hacienda" restaurant near the CalTrain station. The casino is actually connected to the taqueria through a door. Call ahead if you aren't sure they're open: 408-847-3777.
Games
Basically, the club spreads whatever enough people who are there want to play. During most of 2005, that meant 3/6 limit with a full kill, or 4/8 with a full kill. In 2006, it now means:
No-limit spread-limit hold 'em: 2/4 blinds, spread is $4-$200 per bet. Max $200 buyin. Essentially, it's small stakes NLHE. Occasionally, a 3/6 kill game will get going, but usually it's spread now.
The spread limit game actually starts whenever enough people have busted out of that night's tournament and are ready to play. That usually happens around an hour after opening time.
On early Saturday afternoons (around 1pm) they apparently spread Pan 9 for a hardcore group of Pan players.
Rake: $3 + $1 jackpot per hand; the rake is taken directly out of the pot after the flop.
Game Character:This is a small card room that is filled with pretty much only local regulars. They speak Spanish a lot, to each other and to the dealers and staff, though the game is nominally run in English, and most dealers make an effort to use only English, or at least repeat things in both languages.
The game is pretty darn loose aggressive.
A dollar chip
Wait Time: Because there's only four tables, and usually only one or two are actually in use, wait times are either nonexistent (take an empty seat), which is common, or can be half an hour if the table is full of regulars who aren't done playing yet, and there aren't enough people waiting to form an extra table.
Shuffling: All tables are hand-shuffled
Posting: New players need not post
Oddity: When carding for the button when a new table starts, ties between ranks are not broken by bridge suits, as is usual: they are broken by "first player to the left of the dealer with that rank".
Tournaments
- Tuesday 7pm: WSOP satellite tournament from Jan-June. No tournaments July-Dec
- Wednesday 7pm: Limit holdem, $110 buyin, no rebuys
- Thursday 7pm: Limit holdem, $40 buyin, unlimited $10 rebuys, 1 $30 addon
- Friday 5pm: No tournament
- Saturday 5pm: No-Limit holdem, $55 buyin, 1 $50 rebuy
Typically, a tourney has between 20-30 participants. Separate "high hand for the tournament" jackpot is $100.
Jackpots
Bad Beat jackpot: Aces full or better beaten by quads or better, pays $500. Monthly high hand jackpot is $300.
Interior of Garlic City Casino
Atmosphere
Small town (very small) card room. Feels as though it's an underground speakeasy, like you need to know the password to be ushered through the restaurant into the casino in back (though the casino has its own door to the outside in back, it's hard to see from the outside and in fact doesn't open from outside, so they usually prop it open so people can get in).
Very much "everyone knows everyone", a bunch of friends who get together to play poker every night.
Tables and Chairs: Four tables: two of them have nice felt and nice vinyl, two have the plasticky "astroturf" felt instead. The tables seat from 8-10 players each.
Neighborhood: Slightly run down area of town, but not bad. Right next to the nice CalTrain station.
Parking: Moderate amount of parking available, both behind the club (about 20 spaces) and in the city public parking lot next door (about 20 spots).
Smoking: Not allowed inside the building, due to California law.
Service and Comps
No service, no comps.
The gang used to go in together on a McDonald's run or similar, but since the restaurant they're connected to changed from a bad "99 cent fast food" place to a pretty good taqueria (sometime in mid-2006), the players generally just walk through the door and get a taco platter, or a burrito, or a Corona. Small "street style" tacos are only a dollar each and are quite tasty; fountain sodas are only $1.
Wheel-up drink holder tables make it easy to drink while you play, but somewhat harder to eat while you play. They have eating tables in the room in a separate area, so you can at least watch the play while you eat, but I'm not sure you're allowed to eat while you play.
Links and Notes
- Nearest competitor is probably Garden City Casino in San Jose.
- Visited by MarkT many times in 2005 and 2006.
| Poker rooms in the Bay Area (Map) |
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| Artichoke Joe's | Bay 101 | California Grand | Garden City | Lucky Chances | Oaks | Palace Hayward | Casino San Pablo | Garlic City |