Niagara?

When you walk in friday night, theres 10-20 1/2 tables, a few 2/5s and a 5/10 usually

they run plo sometimes

hotels aren't too cheap, but u can drive 20-30 mins away and get good deals. gps / smartphones help w/ this

quite sure games run 24/7

i've played all nighters there before

the 1/2 is kinda sick soft, the 2/5 is usually 5 nits 2 tag/lags and a couple recreational players

the 5/10 rarely has straddles or doubles, it plays like nl10-nl50. usually 1-2 fish, rest are decent but easily exploitable.

Good Luck,
RYan

Here's what I got so far...

As far as I understand it, there is a Niagara casino, and Fallsview. I believe NL200 is standard at Niagara, I think the rake there is unreal. Whereas at Fallsview, you pay $6/30min, and the lowest limit there is 2/5. I remember QJ's podcast, where DN said that a competent player in NL50 can beat 2/5, I'm not sure how true this is, but I consider myself a pretty solid NL50 player, and the rake structure alone is very tempting over the NL200@Niagara (for me, anyway). I do have some experience of playing live because I've been getting invited to homegames around town for last several months, and been working on my live game.

A place to stay is definitely an issue so far. Every place seems to charge like $150 a night..-_-... I don't drive, so I'd like to stay close to the falls. Also, I'm going with gf, so maybe I'll just drop extra money... not sure just yet what will happen.

double post =/

Theres a Niagara Casino thats closer to the strip where everything is and they run a 1/2 game thats near the Sheraton Hotel.

The Fallsview Casino is different and its located closer to the actual falls and it runs at a minimum of 2/5$ and Im pretty sure they take $6 every... 45minutes-1 hour, I'm pretty sure $6/30minutes is a little steep. Only played at those limits a couple of times so not sure.

The Hilton runs pretty good rooms for $100/night and there are a lot of budget hotels that run under that, and they're still close to the action like Holiday Inn, and lots of second-rate motels etc.

10-20 minutes away, there are MAD bed and breakfasts. Like hundreds of them.

make sure you take pictures

i once played at fallsview for 2-3 weeks straight of live poker

its not bad, they have 1-2 through 5kNL

but ins are 100bb, but i always bought in for 150bb+ and no1 noticed, they dont count your chips no1 cares.
Rake is preety high but I think thats standard for live play? The players are horrible

For the record, I've only been to a casino once in my life. And that was Niagara Casino. I had to wait like ~3hours to get seated (it was like, during weekend night times I think), and got stacked pretty quick (hour or so), then I left. I was a huge noob at the time, and only went in with a BI trying to "test the waters" when I had next to no understanding of the game, thinking I was a hotshot.

If you guys wanna meet up and shit during my stay there, PM me

I firmly believe that 2/5 game at Fallsview is $6/30min (2.5bb/hour). And Niagara rake structure is 10% to a $5. max, $2. is taken on the flop. I don't exactly know how much bb per hour that is. I guess it also depends on how many hands you play. I may be more comfortable playing NL200 with my roll ._.

Oh, fallsview does have 1/2? Sick, I'll try Fallsview next time maybe. Niagara casino's environment was kind of depressing. That's funny that you bought in for +150bb and that no one noticed lol... wtf.. someone should notice hahahhahhhahha. What if you stack a guy who's +150bb as soon as you sit down? I'm sure that person will notice!

I'll prob buy in for like 130~150bb too since live doesn't have autoreload, and I hate playing with less than 100bb.

ariang i might go up to canada to play this weekend of next weekend

if u wanna go up w/ me n share a room msg me, be cheap on both of us and we can grind a ton

Naaaahhh. I live pretty far from the falls, so to casually go is difficult (coupled with the fact that I don't drive makes it even harder). But thanks for the offer. I mean to go at the end of next month; May. Good luck to you though, hope you win moneyz!

On April 28 2011 09:14 Arirang wrote: Oh, fallsview does have 1/2? Sick, I'll try Fallsview next time maybe. Niagara casino's environment was kind of depressing. That's funny that you bought in for +150bb and that no one noticed lol... wtf.. someone should notice hahahhahhhahha. What if you stack a guy who's +150bb as soon as you sit down? I'm sure that person will notice! I'll prob buy in for like 130~150bb too since live doesn't have autoreload, and I hate playing with less than 100bb.

I think you can give them a call and ask them which stakes are running
friday-sunday should be a little higher then normal since everyone gets off work and wants to gamble

yeah weekends are always juicy

don't throw drinks at head of security!

yeah its easy to buy in for more as slick Tom mentioned
the waiting lists are insane (esp fri-sat of course) so make sure u call them or go there go on list then come back, etc

afaik, Fallsview doesn't offer 1/2NL but I may be wrong...

If you get the Players Advantage Club you can take the Chinatown bus to Fallsview for only $5 =)