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Old 03-10-2006, 06:05 AM     Post subject: Long Island Poker Players #1 (permalink)  
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I just came off my first experience from http://www.freeportpokerboat.com/

Must say, if you want to avoid the trip to Foxwoods/AC from Long Island, or even NYC, this was pretty sweet. Nice setup in the poker room, pretty good food and absolutely horrible players.

The boat sets sail from freeport ny and once you are in international waters, you can gamble all you want... usually around 4 hours or so of decent poker action

It's 21+ and they have poker on Thursday thru Sunday. They had around 16 players (so its obviously small) and were playing 1/2 NL (60 min, 200 max). They are also planning to put together a tournament with a freeroll to WSOP and other stuff

Just passing this info along to any Long Island FTR members... definitely worth a check out and if you can imagine the type of people who go on these cruises, you can imagine the ones who play poker
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As for my trip report to it, all I can say is I played typical poker and that's that. Mixture of loose passives and some super tights (one guy was proudly laying down AK pre-flop to a 10 dollar bet). No real memorable hands - many of my hands never made showdown, although one hand I was betting the nut flush draw the whole time and when I missed, it went check check... and my ace high was goot.

One hand that wasn't mine actually won the bad beat jackpot... but since the poker room on the casino ship was new, it was only around 500 bucks... but here it went: guy raises with AA, three callers. Flop: Qd, 10D, Qh. AA bets, two callers. Turn: AC. River: 6D. AA flips over the boat: one guy flips Ad 7d and other person turns over Qc Qs. Since the dealer was new, the guys just left the table. When the manager came over (who btw, was incredibly friendly) asking about the game, we told him about the hand... and he went to get his chips and award the bad beat jackpot. Very nice personalized service.. managers right there, getting drinks for you and whatnot.

However, they are strict when closing... as soon as you enter US waters, its all over. But, it was 12:30 and the game was dying down... but if was nice to get a few hours in instead of slugging to foxwoods and AC
Dealer: bencathers has two pair, Aces and Deuces
Dealer: Tbags has two pair, Kings and Jacks
Dealer: Tbags finished the tournament in 256th place
Tbags [observer]: another scumbag gets there on this site lol
 
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Old 03-13-2006, 05:28 PM     Post subject: Re: Long [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Referrals/Island- #2 (permalink)  
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(one guy was proudly laying down AK pre-flop to a 10 dollar bet).
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Sounds like a good time!



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