Anyone know if the beginner’s pot limit $5 buy in tournament at the Ladbrokes regency in London is worth playing? Is the buy in too low to get good action.
Depends entirely on whether you are new to the game or not. If you are it’s definitely worth playing in. You get a great mixture of decent, experienced players (chancing their arm before the cash games), bad but habitual players and total beginners. Top prize usually comes out at around the £300 mark which isn’t bad but, for a beginner, just the experience of playing in a casino, often at a self deal table, is worth the buy in alone. Be warned, during the re-buy period (1st 50 minutes) everything you’ve read about poker goes out of the window. It’s mayhem. People go all in with mediocre hands all the time, so you never know what you’re up against. I even saw one guy CALL all in with an only a little under the buy in amount, and he held 3 5 off-suit. All you can do during the re-buys is hang in there and hope to catch some cards. If you do you can soak up a serious amount of chips because, at £5, people don’t care how many times they buy in. After the re-buys are over things tighten up considerably and the tournament settles down. It’s a great laugh, the people are friendly and the staffs are great. I doubt you’d regret giving it a try.
Answer 2:
Something where the players will give you respect for a good hand rather than seeing it doggedly to the river with a pile of crap because it’s so cheap.
Answer 3:
There are other, neighborhood poker clubs in Paris — I’ve played in
the Marais near the Place des Vosges and in Montmartre. Though you’d better speak a bit of French if you want to play in them.
