SLIGO Casino/Poker room

Pócar Poker

There will be a new Poker Room in Sligo opening the end of this month. It will also offer the normal Casino games such as Brag, Stud Poker, Blackjack, Roulette and will operate 6 poker tables with nightly tournaments and cash games.

We are looking for young people who are are local to the Sligo area. If you are interested in poker and wish to be trained as a poker dealer please email info@pocarpoker.ie with your details.

Culchie

Wahey !

Lafortezza

Can you expand on the likely tournament schedule?

BrokenArrows

typical. Once i move out of sligo, out of the country for that matter they open a poker room there

5starpool

I might investigate once this opens on a weekend home. I'm sure Mick will update the forum here when he visits (hint hint).

Culchie

BrokenArrows wrote:

typical. Once i move out of sligo, out of the country for that matter they open a poker room there

It's all about timing!

Will report back once I'm issued with my press pass and free tourney entry fees.

One thing's for sure, it will be a busy spot with all those Donegal boys nearby and plenty of card players around, even if it's mostly 25's:)

sunzz

Looking forward to this, Am a regular player (and winner) on the sligo scene, I'd be interested in hearing about the structure of the tournaments and also cash games / rake.

Would also be interested in dealing as I live just up the road from where this is going to be going live.

Will email you with details.

Four of a kind

where abouts in sligo will it be situated?

sunzz

Talk on the grapevine has the emphasis on or close to the old "jolly rogers"

Dub13

A card room in Sligo,I think its safe to say Poker is now in the mainstream leisure market.

5starpool

Dub13 wrote:

A card room in Sligo,I think its safe to say Poker is now in the mainstream leisure market.

Look you, stick to what you know, and comment on the joyriding forum

Bloody jackeens

Dub13

Dublin should become a city-state.That would sort you lot out,you would have to sort out a little economy and us Dubs would no longer have to prop you up.

DeVore

Pocar Poker, GJP run a monthly 250 game up there (on this Sunday, in the Clarion from 2) and would like to chat with you about working together perhaps. Give me a shout or if you want to turn up please do!

DeV.

Pócar Poker

The days and actual amounts for the tournaments are not set yet but safe to say there will be …

Freeroll
€25 freeze out
€50 rebuy
€100 freeze out

we would like to find out first what tournaments already take place in the area so we can work around them, if you know of any please drop me a line.

Thanks

Pócar Poker

very intrested in working together, unfortunatly i won't be able to be at the event on sunday. but I will make an effort to be at the next event.

do you use dealers at your events, I would certainly like to find out what rules you use.

Tar.Aldarion

In Sligo near where Jolly Rogers was, I might like to be a dealer, hmm...

Anyway, good news!

sunzz

Any info on dealers needed have sent an email and pm but not reply.

When do you think your establishment will be open to the public ?

Culchie

I heard this up and running?

Anyone been?... any tournament schedules available?

bman

Anyone been in here yet? Is there many tables and whats the standard like?

JoeyJJ

Haven't had a chance to make it down to sligo yet, hope to get down in a couple of weeks, will report back when I do...

Bp!

Went over one of the nights at the weekend, was very impressed with it, looks really well and is very comfy....big leather seats for all the players and the tables are very nice as well, its pretty spacious too and well air conditioned

My one problem with it is its rake, I assume the S.E is the same (same owner?) but there is no actual rake per pot, only every player has to pay €5 rake every half an hour....thats very off puttin for me, if you intend playin for 4-5 hours, expect to pay €50 just to play...(winning or losing!)

When asked why not rake the pots instead, its "extremely illegal to operate like that"!

Apart from that its a very nice spot and I would defo recommend checkin it out

BigDragon

Bp! wrote:

My one problem with it is its rake, I assume the S.E is the same (same owner?) but there is no actual rake per pot, only every player has to pay €5 rake every half an hour....thats very off puttin for me, if you intend playin for 4-5 hours, expect to pay €50 just to play...(winning or losing!)

This will become standard. Used in many cardrooms in USA. It is a business transaction. IE you are 'hiring' the seat/table/chips/dealer from the cardroom. Easy to defend against the McDowell types.

Bp!

BigDragon wrote:

This will become standard. Used in many cardrooms in USA. It is a business transaction. IE you are 'hiring' the seat/table/chips/dealer from the cardroom. Easy to defend against the McDowell types.

Interesting..... Its a pity this wll be the norm

being card dead has just got more expensive !

JoeyJJ

see any tournie schedule while you were there BP?

How many hands can you expect per half and hour ? You wouldn't want to be sitting with some slow bucker, he would be costing everyone at the table money.

Bp!

Hey Joey,

I didnt actually see any tourney schedule but the floor staff were asking the players at the tables what kind of tournament they would like on Sunday... I think they decided on a €100/€150 freezeout so maybe they are in the process of drawing up their schedules.

At a guess Id say a hand was being played every 2 1/2 to 3 mins so about 9 or 10 hands per block...

JAMMYBSTD

will be in sligo next week and would luv to check it out,any chance of an address?

BrokenArrows

what cash games do they offer. Is it 1/2 NL/POT etc.

Where is it anyway??

Finally something to do in sligo rather than drink. That is once i get back from australia.

To me the 5e per 1/2 hour does not seem too bad. Thats cause im used to $1 per hand on the australian 5/5 tables and $30 per hour on the 5/10/10 tables.

wireless54

where is this located any one. i see they have a 250 freeze out this sunday

MrPillowTalk

tenner an hour is quite reasonable for rake in a cardroom granted the dealers are decent

JoeyJJ

wireless54 wrote:

where is this located any one. i see they have a 250 freeze out this sunday

Its across the road from the old Dunnes beside Better Body Gym.

bman

MrPillowTalk wrote:

tenner an hour is quite reasonable for rake in a cardroom granted the dealers are decent

I don't understand how this is decent, you'd have to be making 5BB/hour to just break even. Also you're not likely to get more than 20-30 hands/hour. I went in there and left after about 2 1/2 hours and was up €30, but i had to pay €20 to make that €30!

Is 10% rake not a better idea, since the winning player only is taxed?

MrPillowTalk

bman wrote:

I don't understand how this is decent, you'd have to be making 5BB/hour to just break even. Also you're not likely to get more than 20-30 hands/hour. I went in there and left after about 2 1/2 hours and was up €30, but i had to pay €20 to make that €30!

Is 10% rake not a better idea, since the winning player only is taxed?

10% rake is better for the losing players

if your a winner you should be chuffed with paying table time

bman

MrPillowTalk wrote:

if your a winner you should be chuffed with paying table time

Yeah, but your not going to be chuffed if your a winning player paying more in table charges than you would in rake anyway!

MrPillowTalk

bman wrote:

Yeah, but your not going to be chuffed if your a winning player paying more in table charges than you would in rake anyway!

then your not winning enough, a % rake levies itself on whoever is winning which is not fair at all, table time spreads the cost evenly.

sligobhoy67

JoeyJJ wrote:

Haven't had a chance to make it down to sligo yet, hope to get down in a couple of weeks, will report back when I do...

I was home from Manchester a couple of weeks ago and had heard all about it from some ofthe bhiys at home.

I was expecting some half arsed effort with the tables knocked together by a local carpenter, wooden stools just a couple of notches up from a home game.

How wrong was I - tbh I was blown away, really impressed - the tables are perfect, great comfortable chair, pro staff who really know what they are doing, good food and drink service, good standard of play etc etc etc

I couldnt praise the place more - I will be straight down there next time I am home and would recommend that anyone who is into poker/black jack/roulette and is in the northwest gets down there.

Congratulations!!! 5 gold stars and a big correct

califano

The raspberries taste like raspberries the schnozberries taste like schnozberries

5starpool

I might even wander in here some time I am back in Sligo myself.....

Culchie

Was hoping to go tonight but something else has come up....but I've heard nothing but good reports about this place.

Will get to one of the tourneys later this week.

sligobhoy67

Culchie wrote:

Was hoping to go tonight but something else has come up....but I've heard nothing but good reports about this place.

Will get to one of the tourneys later this week.

did you get a chance to go down yet?

gamblingIRE

Details: Adelaide Casino, Adelaide St, Sligo, Republic of Ireland.

tel: 0719150515 / 0879344258

Email: adelaidecasino@eircom.net

web-site:None

Gaming time:Thur-Mon 9pm Onward
Poker tournament Schedule


* Thur: €70 Freezout

* Friday: €50 Freezout

* Sun €100 Freezout

* Monday: €20 Rebuy

* Every 2nd Sunday of the month €250 freezout

sligobhoy67

Culchie wrote:

Was hoping to go tonight but something else has come up....but I've heard nothing but good reports about this place.

Will get to one of the tourneys later this week.

so did ya get a chance to go down yet or what??

Culchie

sligobhoy67 wrote:

so did ya get a chance to go down yet or what??

Just back from Hols. Monday night I hope.

Culchie

Popped down last night to check this out. €20 ReBuy

Finished 3rd, Buddy of mine 2nd.

Casino is very nice, lovely tables, nice leather chairs for players.

6 Poker tables and the usual house games, which are proving immensely popular with the chinese community of the North West. I never seen so much money being played on a roulette wheel my a family of about 18 chinese people .... I kid you not, that croupier was extremely business last night for a good 5 hours, and I left at 2.15 and they were not going to bed !

Poker standard was pretty terrible during the re-buy period, the worst I ever seen actually, the Celtic Tiger must have arrived in Sligo cos the €20's were certainly being circulated big time, as it was a complete all-in fest right from the word 'go'.

The last 6 or 7 players were decent enough, and I'll certainly be back.

Suggestion for management .... I'd swap that €20 rebuy game, and replace it with a 'fitz' style freeroll with €10 rebuys, and put all that income towards tickets for your monthly €250 game. From what I seen last night, you'll have 4 or 5 tickets every Monday easy enough.
You'll get a bigger crowd, and gives you a great recruitment tournament, and the better players will at least know that the money is going into tickets....and your cash games will be busier...and earlier.


Anyone down the North West, this casino is well worth a visit.

digiman

I must give this a try some night. What is the best night for tournaments with a buy in for around €50 and I would prefer double chance or a freezeout?

I was playing in Ardara last Friday at a €50 Double Chance tournament (which was pretty good I have to say) and someone was saying that there is plans for at least one casino to be opened in Letterkenny soon. Anyone hear anything about this?

Culchie

digiman wrote:

I must give this a try some night. What is the best night for tournaments with a buy in for around €50 and I would prefer double chance or a freezeout?

I was playing in Ardara last Friday at a €50 Double Chance tournament (which was pretty good I have to say) and someone was saying that there is plans for at least one casino to be opened in Letterkenny soon. Anyone hear anything about this?

I heard the same about Letterkenny, it may even be open already.

In Sligo .... €70 FO Thursday, €50 FO Friday, €100 FO Sunday (I think), and €20 RB Monday I think is the schedule ...just cash on Saturday.

Tar.Aldarion

Well, being from Sligo I must pop in there some monday that I am back home. It sounds really nice.

5starpool

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Well, being from Sligo I must pop in there some monday that I am back home. It sounds really nice.

ditto, except not on a Monday.

Tar.Aldarion

Yes, you are right to avoid my skillz with a z.

Ok, I get it, you are richer than a mere student.

5starpool

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Yes, you are right to avoid my skillz with a z.

Ok, I get it, you are richer than a mere student.

I am better off than your average student, but also more bored I believe. Work is decleverifying me I feel.

Mick - Are there dealers at all tables in tournies and cash games?

Culchie

5starpool wrote:

I am better off than your average student, but also more bored I believe. Work is decleverifying me I feel.

Mick - Are there dealers at all tables in tournies and cash games?

Hi Dom,

Yes, dealers at all tables, usual free refreshments etc...

Place can't be faulted tbh ....

Dub13

Culchie wrote:

usual free refreshments etc...

I bet they don't have penguin bars like the Fitz....:p