Best Places to play Poker in London? (1 Viewer)

Las Vegas.

Seriously though I'll be there next week just for a few hours (Wednesday evening, I think) - I was wondering the same thing.
 
I'm from the uk originally and i happened to ask a few mates that live in London this question a couple of days ago.

I was told the hippodrome is good if you are central. A bit further out in Stratford is Aspers, which I've at least been inside and was a fairly large casino by English standards. You can get there via the central line if I remember correctly.
 
Don't worry - I was just being "funny."

I'll be in London as well, not sure what places are where and whether they're decent.
 
Don't worry - I was just being "funny."

I'll be in London as well, not sure what places are where and whether they're decent.
Definitely the two I mentioned. One of my friends that made the recommendation plays for a living and he spends a lot of time in both by all accounts. Hippodrome should have plenty of cash games and tourneys running.
 
It was shiny at night. They were strict about no pics inside. I remember not liking the chips. Several cash tables were almost full but the poker room was in a weird crowded upstairs area. Overall not that many tables. Seemed to be a lot of local players who knew each other. It's been a couple years so I am curious on whether it has changed much inside.

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Played at the Hippodrome in Leicester Square a couple of nights ago (Friday night). They had 1-2 NL, 2-5 NL, and 1-2 PLO. There were about 8 tables spread when I got there with no open seats. They opened 3 1-2 tables within an hour. My 1-2 table played like a 2-5 table. You could buy in for 400 GBP and at any time add up to half of the big stack. Within 3 hours, one guy had about 2500. Everybody just kept buying up their stacks to be half of the big stack, and that guy just kept getting hit with the deck.

Definitely several regulars at the table who got some leeway. One regular even jumped in the dealer seat during a dealer switch and he jokingly started to deal a hand out. He'd almost completed the second round then stopped, laughed and sat back in his seat. New dealer acted like it was no big deal, nor did anybody else. I was a bit shocked. Never seen that myself, and not sure it would fly where I play.

Overall, players were nice, from multiple different countries, and had a mostly aggressive style. Lot's of big pots. I was in for 400, cashed out for 870 in 3 hours. I'd definitely play there again.

Oh yeah, Rake is 5% up to 10 gbp. No other drops for bad beats/etc.
 
was 1-2 the smallest stakes?
The smallest stakes at the Hippo is 1/2 but you will find 1/1 at the Grosvenor about 5 minutes walk down the road. In my opinion this is the softest game in London. The Vic also regularly has several 1/1 games and runs some very big games on occasion.
 

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