oh that's too bad. i was hearing about it maybe 8-12 months ago that it was a good place to play, but it's not a place that's frequently discussed, so i hadn't heard anything further. hopefully the poker room turns it around.
The first time I played there was in the early 2000's. To be fair, I have not played much at the local casinos at all. The poker room used to be in the main building, and got a lot of traffic. A few years back, the poker room was moved out of the main building, across the street into the secondary building nearer to one of the parking structures. You lose a lot of your fish that way.
After black friday, there was a migration of online players to Canada. With our close proximity to Vegas, it meant a lot of players came to Vancouver. The games just got tougher.
Comparatively, the games in Washington are generally much softer. They shut down online poker before black friday, so the players there started venturing occasionally to the casinos. The difference was that these generally weren't online pros, but the occasional player looking for a fix. Washington also has some strange rules at the different casinos (tribal vs state) when it comes to 'no-limit'.
If you're looking at places to go to play a lot of poker, I wouldn't suggest BC or Washington. If you're looking at places to go to experience things, while also having close proximity to casino poker, then absolutely come here.
Mike
