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City: Centennial
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City: Naples
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Description: Located in the Port of the Islands, Naples, Florida. Angler's Cove provides a great atmosphere with great food, great service and excellent entertainment.
Managing Dealer: Ryan Martin
City: Naples
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Description: Located in the Port of the Islands, Naples, Florida. Angler's Cove provides a great atmosphere with great food, great service and excellent entertainment.
Managing Dealer: Lady D
City: Jupiter
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Managing Dealer: Lady D
City: Jupiter
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Managing Dealer: Sean Ryan
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Long tenured Venue in Cape Coral with some of the biggest crowds and cool kids!!
Managing Dealer: Al Cotten
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Long tenured Venue in Cape Coral with some of the biggest crowds and cool kids!!
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City: Boynton Beach
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Description: NOW NON SMOKING INSIDEMASKS ARE MANDATORY
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City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Friday
Description: American pool hall with great food and drinks!
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City: Lake Worth
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City: Lake Worth
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Description: Awesome food with a fun atmosphere! Great wait staff. TV's throughout - FULL NFL & NHL PACKAGES, all sports events broadcasted. Pool table.
Managing Dealer: Fred RIP
City: Lake Worth
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: 12 Pool Tables ( Free pool for poker players ) and Lots of TV's including big projection TV's.
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Davenport
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Managing Dealer: Dania Ellis
City: Royal Palm Beach
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Managing Dealer: Hannah Rebecca
City: Boca Raton
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: Fun, friendly Irish Pub, located in Mizner Park Boca, right on US1. Black Rose has a great beer selection. There's a huge outdoor patio, with tons of seating available.
Managing Dealer: Hot Tub
City: Delray Beach
Game Night: Monday
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Managing Dealer: Hot Tub
City: Delray Beach
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Situated on the Intercoastal Waterway on Atlantic Ave. in all the action of downtown Delray. This British cuisine is Zagat-rated, and The Pub has been in the spotlight of numerous news stories because of mischievious ghosts.
Managing Dealer: Leila Negron
City: Port Saint Lucie
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Cigar Bar with Full Liquor! TV's throughout to watch any game. Friendly staff and Great atmosphere! Longest Running Treasure Coast Venue! One of the original in the Beginning of all NPPT!
Managing Dealer: Leila Negron
City: Port Saint Lucie
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Cigar Bar with full liquor, and nice ambiance! One of our long running favorite locales on the Treasure Coast! Big screen TV's throughout to watch your favorite sports game, electronic darts, and Silver Strike Bowling
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Managing Dealer: David Finney
City: Lehigh Acres
Game Night: Monday
Description: Bowland Lehigh features 12 modern synthetic lanes and automatic scoring. This is the perfect place for socializing---whether with friends in a league or open bowling.
Managing Dealer: Michael Kastner
City: North Fort Myers
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Welcome to Cactus Jack's. Food and drink specials every day. Outdoor Tiki Bar & live music. Family & dog friendly!!
Managing Dealer: ANGELA
City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Wednesday
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Managing Dealer: Max Garcia
City: Bradenton
Game Night: Monday
Description: Live Music, Never a cover. Full Liquor, Kitchen open 11:30am - 9:00pm Sunday-Wednesday,open till 11pm on Thurs,Fri,Sat. (21 and up after 9 p.m.) NTN
Managing Dealer: Dan Hanson
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Island time ALL the time! Live entertainment, great food, real outdoor tiki bar, and laid back, festive atmosphere.
Managing Dealer: Fred RIP
City: Royal Palm Beach
Game Night: Thursday
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Managing Dealer: Zach Hinkle
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Saturday
Description: VOTED #1 POOL HALL IN THE U.S. FOR 2008! 10,000 sqft of Pool, Darts, Poker, Full Bar and Kitchen
Managing Dealer: Zach Hinkle
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Thursday
Description: VOTED #1 POOL HALL IN THE U.S. FOR 2008! 10,000 sqft of Pool, Darts, Poker, Full Bar and Kitchen
Managing Dealer: Pedro Perez
City: Punta Gorda
Game Night: Friday
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Managing Dealer: Pedro Perez
City: Punta Gorda
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Managing Dealer: Pedro Perez
City: Punta Gorda
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Managing Dealer: James Holbrook
City: Naples
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Latitude meets Attitude
Managing Dealer: Ryan Martin
City: Naples
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Latitude meets Attitude
Managing Dealer: Amanda Vititoe
City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Sunday
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Managing Dealer: Chris Lastra
City: Oakland Park
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Great British Bar with all your favorites. Plus they play all the soccer matches.
Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Parker
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Sports Bar
Managing Dealer: Pedro Perez
City: Port Charlotte
Game Night: Thursday
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Managing Dealer: Leila Negron
City: Fort Pierce
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: The first and currently only NPPT venue in Fort Pierce!
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Clermont
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Kick back in our casual neighborhood setting, full service bar, and receive friendly service from our all-star staff. Enjoy the hand painted graffiti on the walls and tables by local artists.
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Claremont
Game Night: Tuesday
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Managing Dealer: Lady D
City: Palm Beach Gardens
Game Night: Monday
Description: Games all night! 7Pm, 9:30Pm and manic 3rd game! Drink hands and scratch off bounties!Second Game $25.00 extra gift cert
Managing Dealer: ANGELA
City: Lantana
Game Night: Tuesday
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Managing Dealer: Max Garcia
City: Bradenton
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: We have it all! NFL, Center Ice, MLB sports packages and much more throughout the year to fulfill your sports cravings! Come in for an order of delicious jumbo chicken wings or 100% angus beef burger along with many other pub grub items!
Managing Dealer: Eric Nalitt
City: Boca Raton
Game Night: Sunday
Description: AMAZING IRISH PUB WITH FANTASTIC FOOD IN EAST BOCA, WITH PLENTY OF TELEVISIONS FOR ALL SPORTING EVENTS.
JUST RATED BEST PUB IN BOCA per The Sun Sentinel!!
Managing Dealer: Derek Isola
City: Boca Raton
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Local Irish Sports Pub with Fantastic food, great atmosphere, and great drink specials.
RATED BEST PUB IN BOCA per The Sun Sentinel!!
Managing Dealer: Brittany
City: Jupiter
Game Night: Friday
Description: Host of NPPT's Main Event and countless Bahama tournies! The Mecca of bar poker in Florida! If you haven't played here yet, come this week! Right across from Roger Dean stadium in Abacoa.
Managing Dealer: Brittany
City: Jupiter
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: Host of NPPT's Main Event and countless Bahama tournies! If you haven't played here yet, come this week! Right across from Roger Dean stadium in beautiful Abacoa!
Managing Dealer: Fred RIP
City: Palm Springs
Game Night: Thursday
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Managing Dealer: Fred RIP
City: PALM SPRINGS
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Managing Dealer: Chris Lastra
City: Fort Lauderdale
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Managing Dealer: Jen and Britt
City: Loxahatchee
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Awesome atmosphere, food, drinks and staff. Congratulations to Gail Norton for winning last seasons bar leader!
Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Lone Tree
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Coffee/Pizza/MusicRestaurant
Managing Dealer: Andres Valencia
City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Wednesday
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Managing Dealer: Hot Tub
City: Greenacres
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Tradional Irish and local Seafood Sports Bar. Has a neighborhood friendly staff! Tons of TVS and we have ALL the games! NFL, NBA, NHL, MBA, College!Florida State Bar! Sound ON for ALL FSU games.
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Clermont
Game Night: Friday
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Managing Dealer: Al Cotten
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Sunday
Description: The Original Cape Coral Venue for Poker.
Managing Dealer: Adam Spencer
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: The Original Cape Coral Venue for Poker.
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Davenport
Game Night: Sunday
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Managing Dealer: Andrew
City: Boynton Beach
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Managing Dealer: Amy Wadsworth
City: Lake park
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: A legendary local hang out!
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City: Palm Beach Gardens
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Thursdays 7:00pm & 9:00pm
Managing Dealer: Dan Hanson
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Monday
Description: Local Neighborhood Sports Cafe
Managing Dealer: Michael Williford
City: Loxahatchee
Game Night: Monday
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Managing Dealer: James E.
City: Loxahatchee
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Awesome atmosphere, food, drinks and staff.
Managing Dealer: Nina
City: Loxahatchee
Game Night: Thursday
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Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Lone Tree
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Sports BarRestaurant2 BAYS OF INDOOR GOLF FULL COURSES
Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Lonetree
Game Night: Thursday
Description: American
Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Lone Tree
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Sports BarRestaurantOff Track Betting/Gaming
Managing Dealer: Jeff Doney
City: Sarasota
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Ted & Sue Gill, formerly of New Jersey, are celebrating 13 years as the owners of the Grog Shop and The Rendezvous Lounge. Come hang with the Cool Kids!
Managing Dealer: Jeff Doney
City: Sarasota
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Ted & Sue Gill, formerly of New Jersey, are celebrating 10 years as the owners of the Grog Shop and The Rendezvous Lounge. Come hang with the Cool Kids!
Managing Dealer: Mason Cote
City: Lake Worth
Game Night: Monday
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City: Staten Island
Game Night: Friday
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Managing Dealer: Sean Ryan
City: N. Fort Myers
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Managing Dealer: Jeff Doney
City: Palmetto
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Rodney’s Jamaican Grill is the restaurant that locals visit to experience the taste and sounds of Jamaica. With our warm atmosphere, tasty Jamaican food, and endless supply of Red Stripe, you are ensured a great experience.
Managing Dealer: James Holbrook
City: Marco Island
Game Night: Monday
Description: Awesome local sports bar in the heart of Marco Island!!
Managing Dealer: Alex Molitor
City: Punta Gorda
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Great neighborhood place with pool tables and darts. A neighborhood place to have fun and hang out with the locals.
Managing Dealer: Alex Molitor
City: Punta Gorda
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Great neighborhood place with pool tables and darts. A neighborhood place to have fun and hang out with the locals.
Managing Dealer: Bob Schield
City: Fort Myers Shores
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Cool Joint on 80/Palm Beach Blvd. in Fort Myers Shores.
Managing Dealer: Marco DeRostaing
City: Port St. Lucie
Game Night: Monday
Description: PSL'S 1st BREWERYSide Door Brewing Company is located just East of US1 off of Village Green behind Dunkin Donuts in PSL. All brewing is done on premise and can be enjoyed in the tasting room or while relaxing at the bar. www.sidedoorbrewingcompany.com
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City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Treat your family to a great meal and good times at Sidelines Sports Bar & Grill in Fort Myers, Florida. Independently-owned-and-operated.
Managing Dealer: Dirty J
City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Monday
Description: Smoke Inn Headquarters
Managing Dealer: Dirty J
City: West Palm Beach
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Hottest New Smoke Inn Cigar Bar Location! Completely Remodeled! MOved next to Reel Clips Barber Shop!
Managing Dealer: Anthony Hemp
City: Altamonte Springs
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Authentic English PubOpen: Monday-Thursday 2PM to 1AM; Friday 2PM to 2AM; Saturday 12PM to 2AM; Sunday 12PM to 10 PM
Managing Dealer: Ryan Martin
City: Cape Coral
Game Night: Monday
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Managing Dealer: Dan Hanson
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: Locally owned and operated sports bar. Come for the food, Stay for the sports and Fun. Daily Specials and entertainment.
Managing Dealer: Al Cotten
City: Naples
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: Come for the food, stay for the sports.OFFERING THE BEST RIBS, BEST BURGERS, BEST WINGS, AND BEST CHICAGO PIZZA.
Managing Dealer: Marco DeRostaing
City: Port Saint Lucie
Game Night: Friday
Description: Thee Best Sports Bar in Port St. Lucie!
Managing Dealer: Marco DeRostaing
City: Port Saint Lucie
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Thee Best Sports Bar in Port St. Lucie!
Managing Dealer: Chris Lastra
City: Deerfield Beach
Game Night: Monday
Description: Great New Sports Bar in Deerfield with tons of T.Vs.
Managing Dealer: Derek Isola
City: Boca Raton
Game Night: Thursday
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Managing Dealer: Kari Schiff
City: Fort Myers Beach
Game Night: Friday
Description: Serving SWFL since 1963
Managing Dealer: Michael Kastner
City: Naples
Game Night: Tuesday
Description: Brewpub, Craft Cocktails and restaurant. Join us for live music, sports and the best atmosphere in Naples. We look forward to serving you.
Managing Dealer: Al Cotten
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Thursday
Description: Live Music Sports Bar with Rockin' Bands and Awesome staff!!!
Managing Dealer: Bob Schield
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Saturday
Description: We have four (4) different dining/entertainment venues,and three (3) fully-stocked liquor bars for yourenjoyment and convenience.
Managing Dealer: Bob Schield
City: Fort Myers
Game Night: Wednesday
Description: We have four (4) different dining/entertainment venues,and three (3) fully-stocked liquor bars for yourenjoyment and convenience.
Managing Dealer: Amanda Vititoe
City: Lake Worth
Game Night: Friday
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Managing Dealer: Andrew
City: Delray Beach
Game Night: Monday
Description: Family owned and operated. The pub's bar has a comfortable home away from home feel. Awesome LIVE music! The Whiskey selection is vast and we feature a pair of separate draft systems to keep the Guinness at the perfect temperature.
Managing Dealer: Paula Pipitone
City: Jupiter
Game Night: Monday
Description: Amazing waterfront location with that familiar name. Tons of great food & drinks in a beautiful setting!
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Managing Dealer: Amy Wadsworth
City: Jupiter
Game Night: Saturday
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Managing Dealer: Amy Wadsworth
City: Jupiter
Game Night: Sunday
Description: Famous local country bar on Indiantown, in Jupiter! Almost double the size now since knocking down the walls next door. Great feel, with lots of our friendly gang. Poker, Pool, Darts, Music, and great food at Micks!
Managing Dealer: Allen Pleasant
City: Boynton Beach
Game Night: Saturday
Description: No Limit Pub Poker games played at the Boynton Beach VFW Post #5335 in boynton beach. Games start at 1 & 3:30PM, food is usually provided for any donation of your choosing. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MEMBER TO PLAY HERE!!!
Managing Dealer: Michael Kastner
City: North Fort Myers
Game Night: Thursday
Description: We are very blessed to have such loyal, amazing customers.
Managing Dealer: Curtis Patterson
City: Parker
Game Night: Thursday
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Description: Brewery
Managing Dealer: Ryan Martin
City: Naples
Game Night: Sunday
Description: We are a New Orleans-inspired restaurant and embody the laid back atmosphere of a Speakeasy for sipping on Whiskey. Designed with a relaxed approach to good food and alcohol in mind.
Managing Dealer: Derek Isola
City: Boca Raton
Game Night: Saturday
Description: Best TV's in Boca to watch all your favorite sporting events!Giant big screens line the walls for all the big games!Great late night atmosphere, so the fun never stops!We meow have a pool table and dart boards!
Managing Dealer: Baby Gap
City: Kissimmee
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Robert Woolley
The three most common venues for poker are casinos, home games, and online. However, there’s a fourth venue that presents its own special set of challenges, but gets little attention in the usual poker media outlets — bar poker, also known as tavern poker.
I moved a few years ago from the center of the poker universe, Las Vegas, to Asheville, North Carolina, which is a poker desert. We do have Harrah’s Cherokee casino about an hour away with its small poker room. But other than that, professionally run live poker requires an all-day drive to places like Maryland, West Virginia, or Mississippi. That means in between trips to Cherokee, I have had to scratch my poker itch with home games that some friends organize.
In the last few months, however, a bar poker club started weekly tournaments in town. I’ve been participating in many of those games, and have noticed ways in which they differ from any other poker I’ve played before.
The fundamental difference setting bar poker apart from other venues is that very little is at stake. Bar poker leagues have to be careful not to violate laws prohibiting unlicensed gambling.
The general legal definition of gambling is a game of chance, with prizes of value, and “consideration,” meaning what you have to pay in order to play. The fact that a measure of skill is required to play well does not remove poker from the realm of games of chance, in the eyes of the law. And if there were no prizes at all, few people would play.
What sets bar poker apart from every other form of poker, then, is the “consideration” element — you don’t have to pay to play. That fact has both direct and indirect consequences. The main indirect effect is that the prize pool is small, made up of just what the sponsoring bar puts up in the hope that the game will attract people who will come and buy drinks while they play.
The most prominent direct effect is that people feel they have nothing to lose. If you’ve ever wondered how poker would look if you had nothing at risk if you lose, and little or nothing to gain if you win, find yourself a local tavern poker game and give it a try. It’s an ongoing embodiment of that very experiment.
To be sure, there are some decent prizes to be had through large organizations like the World Tavern Poker, which is the outfit that runs my local game. If you accumulate enough points in a poker “season” through a combination of frequent attendance and finishing high in the weekly local tournaments, you can earn a seat in a regional tournament. Do well in that, and you might earn a seat in the annual national finals in Vegas, where you can win entries into the following year’s World Series of Poker.
A chance for a free WSOP seat is great, right? But you need to think this through in advance. Will you be able and willing to travel to the regional event if you qualify? And if you do well there, will you be able and willing to take time off of work and spend money on flights, hotels, and food in Las Vegas, all for the chance to win a WSOP seat? If not, then don’t enter the local events fooling yourself that it’s an easy road to the WSOP.
You need to be honest with yourself in advance about whether you are going to take it seriously and commit to a substantial investment of time — and, eventually, money — to get to one of the few big prizes at the end of the rainbow. If not, then you just have to decide if you think playing for grins and the social experience is a worthwhile use of your time. (Some pubs also give token prizes to weekly winners — t-shirts and baseball cap, for example.)
Should you decide to participate, either in an earnest chase for a prize of real value or just for fun, I have a few pieces of advice.
1. Be prepared for the games to be self-dealt
By and large, tavern games are going to be self-dealt. In Las Vegas, I briefly participated in a tavern poker series that had off-duty professional dealers, working for tips only. That’s because Vegas is full of unemployed and under-employed dealers. However, every other bar poker venue that I have heard about has the players taking turns shuffling and dealing. The dealer button actually does mean just that in these settings.
2. Be prepared for loose, poor play
In these games you’ll witness some of the worst, loosest, most incomprehensible poker play you’ve ever seen. It’s rather like the play-money side of online poker sites. There are two driving forces behind this. First, these games attract people with the least poker experience — because once you’ve played for real money, it’s hard to find it enjoyable playing for nothing. Second, when there is literally nothing to lose, players are quick to move all in, or call an all-in bet with some of the weakest holdings imaginable.
3. Know that bluffing is generally a bad idea
The obvious implication of the above is that you should turn down your bluffing frequency to nearly zero. If you are heads-up in a pot with a player who has shown himself to have a little discernment about when to call a big bet, then fine — a bluff might be worth trying. But generally, you should expect every bet you make to be called by somebody.
4. Be ready for an incredibly fast structure
My local club runs two games every Tuesday night, with the first tournament at 7:30, and the second at 10:00. That means that there’s time to play out a two-table hold’em tourney in two hours, with a 30-minute break for pizza (which is provided free, one little perk of playing). You can just imagine how fast the blinds have to increase to keep to that schedule. That pace means that you have to be willing to make your all-in moves earlier and with weaker holdings than standard tournament strategy would dictate.
5. Be nice to the novices
People who came to the bar with no idea that there was poker going on will decide to join just for the heck of it, even if they have never played before. Be super nice to them. Get them hooked on how easy and fun it is, and you may get to take cold, hard cash from them when they’re ready to move on to the real games in either the nearest casino or somebody’s living room.
6. Help out the tavern
You can help keep the game viable by being a good customer of the sponsoring establishment. This is a point of advice that’s tricky for me to follow, because I don’t drink, but I at least buy a couple of their bottles of water at roughly 12 billion percent markup.
7. Don’t count on strict rule enforcement
In these games you shouldn’t expect strict adherence to the rule book. In keeping with the geared-to-beginners vibe of the whole endeavor, nobody makes too big a deal out of exposed cards, out-of-turn action, string raises, talking about the hand in progress, and other conventions that apply everywhere else. A tavern poker game is absolutely the worst place to be a rules Nazi. Let things slide that you wouldn’t and shouldn’t in other settings.
Whether you decide to tackle the marathon of playing that it will take to work your way up to one of the really substantial prizes, or decide to participate just for some cheap entertainment, I think keeping in mind the above points will help you succeed and have more fun in the unusual world of tavern poker.
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Photo (still): “World Tavern Poker.”
Robert Woolley lives in Asheville, NC. He spent several years in Las Vegas and chronicled his life in poker on the “Poker Grump” blog.
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