I only recently heard about this place, and decided I would go give it a try last Friday since I had a couple hours to play with in my schedule. They run NLHE Thurs-Sat from 4pm until close (2am I believe) with a $5 every half hour 'raffle ticket' purchase which stands in for the rake. This seems to be how they get their charity designation, and they do have a certificate of such from the city of Buford in their foyer. I'm still not sure it is in full compliance with state laws but this is better than any of the other games in town I'm aware of, all of which are technically illegally raked home games.
Table and chairs were alright. Nothing amazing but serviceable. The chips were kind of meh at best though.
The primary game when things get busy sounds like it is PLO5, and the players who sat down to open the first table certainly represented that. A lot of chasing draws and speculative preflop calls, even more than I'm used to in loose splashy $1/$3 at the casino. The stakes here were $1/$3 with a minimum $200 max $300 buy in but I was also in a three way AI within the first five hands massively ahead of two players who seemed to just be chasing bigger stacks. Several people joking about how they don't play good poker until they hit their third buy in, that sort of thing. Somehow still lose both runouts on that all in when I agree to run it twice. Despite that after only 2 hours of play I was in for $400 out for $340 and would have happily stayed longer for the soft game if I hadn't had other obligations that evening.
Anyway, I know games in Atlanta can be hard to come by so I thought I should share.
Table and chairs were alright. Nothing amazing but serviceable. The chips were kind of meh at best though.
The primary game when things get busy sounds like it is PLO5, and the players who sat down to open the first table certainly represented that. A lot of chasing draws and speculative preflop calls, even more than I'm used to in loose splashy $1/$3 at the casino. The stakes here were $1/$3 with a minimum $200 max $300 buy in but I was also in a three way AI within the first five hands massively ahead of two players who seemed to just be chasing bigger stacks. Several people joking about how they don't play good poker until they hit their third buy in, that sort of thing. Somehow still lose both runouts on that all in when I agree to run it twice. Despite that after only 2 hours of play I was in for $400 out for $340 and would have happily stayed longer for the soft game if I hadn't had other obligations that evening.
Anyway, I know games in Atlanta can be hard to come by so I thought I should share.
