Hello, Welcome into another episode of the Lowloman Cash Games podcast, and today
we'll be doing another poker room review for you. Today's a little bit of
a treat for me because I'll be talking about a room that I know all
too well. This would be the e Bro Greyhound Track and Poker Room.
Don't really run greyhounds anymore, but it's poker room. They have some pit
games like pigau three card poker and things like that. It's located about twenty
minutes north of Panama City Beach, Florida, and I spend a ton of
time playing in this room, so I'm very capable of speaking on this particular
room. Let's get into it. Shawe about sixteen tables, I would say
rarely, if ever, do they run all sixteen tables. I do remember
a promo day. I don't know if it was Memorial Day or Veterans Day
or Labor Day, but I remember that day. I think they had every
table in there full. But generally there's some tables they just don't really typically
open. Like there's one in the tournament area that's back up against the wall
that usually has tables and cup holders and various things on it that if they
open that table, you know the place is packed. But nevertheless, sixteen
tables in there. They spread one two no limit with a four hundred dollars
cap, which is a pretty deep one two game, one three no limit
with a two k cap, which is a crazy deep one three game,
and the two five no limit is no cap. Of course, they will
spread five ten if you get a game going for it. They'll also do
one three two five five ten plo. They will do, you know,
on a high, high low if there's a call for it. One three
one two one three two five Pineapple crazy Pineapple. They'll spread those games as
well. Those will get a pineapple game going in there. Sometimes we get
a round for round pineapple and hold them going. So that's fun. Not
often happens from time to time. I'll talk a little bit more about those
games a little bit later. There's a six dollars rake. It's slightly more
than ten percent the schedule that it's dropped on, but from what I can
see around Florida, this is pretty typical for what you see everywhere. Six
dollars rake, and there's a two dollars promo drop. Generally they have one
hundred dollars hourly high hands is how the promo dollars get distributed back to the
players have our own holidays and other special occasions. It can be anywhere from
one hundred to two hundred, as frequently as every fifteen minutes. Those days
you tend to see the room act out. They do have a Royal Flush
bonus as well, five hundred dollars if you hit a Royal flush in any
suit except spades, and if you hit a Royal flush and spades you get
twenty five hundred dollars. And there is a one hundred dollars table share.
That's what's going on now at the time. I am recording this object to
change weekday actions. So if you go in on a Tuesday at noon something
like that, you may see two or three tables going earlier throughout the day.
At nights, weekday nights, you may see like up to five tables
going. Would say, what is it? Four nights a week they have
tournaments. So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday nights they have tournaments.
Those start at six o'clock, so you will actually see more than five tables
going, but they won't be cash. So you may see like three cash
game tables and four tournament tables, so maybe seven total going at night,
So Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday night it could vary.
Friday and Saturday night you may see five cash game tables going and five tournament
tables going. And then on Sunday, the big tournament of the week happens
at two pm, So generally it'll be kind of slow on cash games Sunday
when they open at ten am till round two. Then that tournament will usually
be maybe up to five tables and you'll have one or two tables of cash.
It varies, though this past Sunday I was in there there was four
I think four tables of tournaments and there was like four or five tables of
cash. It was pretty crowded for a Sunday afternoon and the action was really
good. So if you are looking for the bigger games, like we talked
about, they run randomly, but usually at night. Almost always there's a
bigger game that happens on Friday and Saturday. You may see one pop up
on a Sunday night, you may see one pop up on a Thursday night,
but typically your best bet for the bigger game is going to be Friday
or Saturday. So let's talk about those games, shall we. So the
one two, four hundred cap game, it can play pretty big. It
can after a table has been running for a couple hours, it's not uncommon
to see five hundred thousand dollars stacks spread around the table fifteen to twenty dollars
raises pre flop, so you're essentially playing a two to five game. The
one to three game has a two K cap, and I play in this
game pretty much every time it runs, unless it's just a you know,
lineup I'm just not excited about. I may pass on it, but I
would say ninety percent of that I might play this game when it runs.
So it's a one to three game one three zero limit. There is a
two k cap. I would say on average, people are buying in for
a thousand. You will also see several people with two thousand. And it
plays like a five to ten when it plays small, and it plays like
a ten twenty when it plays big. So you're opening raise sizes are going
to be twenty five dollars raises on the small end. On the medium end,
you'll see raises to thirty or thirty five and then I've been in this
game many, many nights where the opening raises pre flop were fifty dollars,
sixty dollars, seventy five dollars. I recall one particular night where somebody raised
to I think fifty dollars, and there was two callers, and I raced
two hundred dollars and I got called by six people. So that game can
get quiet out of hand. The two to five game is a no cap
game, so you can buy in for however much of your little heart desires.
I would say the two to five game, they push for it a
lot. They'll only you'll let you run it twice in the two five games,
so you can't run it twice. In one two, you can't run
it twice at one three. In the two to five game, you can
run it twice. A lot of people tout that as a reason to play
the two to five game, but I have to tell you the one three
game plays pretty much identical to the two five game. Like in the two
to five game, raise sizes are still about twenty five dollars. Some nights
they're thirty five dollars, some nights they're forty five or fifty dollars. It
just varies by the lineup, but I see no difference in play between the
two games. I actually prefer the one three game because you'll find a lot
of players come and take a shot in the one three game, whereas when
it's a two five they're just far too intimidated to come take a shot.
But you know, I generally go with what the table wants. At the
table says, hey, let's make it a two to five. You know,
I don't hold out. I realize sometimes it is gonna make the game
worse, but I try to be a friendly person. So I hope that
explains the action. The one three games can get insane. These one three
games are some of the craziest games I've ever played in anywhere. I really
wish we could do a live stream of the one three game at this poker
room, because it would be one of the most entertaining things you've ever seen
in your life anywhere. And again, it's not a one to three game,
it's a five to ten game on the low end. Let's talk about
the food. The food is pricey, but it's almost always better than average.
I would say the times that I've ordered food here and I've been playing
here a very, very long time. I would say times that I've ordered
the food here and was disappointed in it. I can count all one hand,
and if you see how many hours I play here and how much money
I spend on food here, and how many years I've been doing it,
that's a pretty good record. The weight staff is pretty phenomenal. A couple
of them some of my favorite weight staff on Planet Earth. And ranking the
dealers I would give the dealers at EBRO eight point six. Now. I
talked about this in the last episode. What I've decided to do to try
to give rankings to dealers on how proficient they are and how good they are
at their job, is when I play in the room, every dealer that
comes down, I've decided I'm going to do a room review, So I'll
pop out my notepad and when a dealer sits down, I will rank how
they do one to ten, and every dealer that deals to me during that
day, I'll rank them one to ten. When it's over, I'll add
all those rankings up. I will divide it by the numbers of dealers that
dealt to me and give you an average. And I actually did that today
earlier today, and we came up with an eight point six. That's a
pretty high rating. So I've actually told the poker room manager there. I
think I've told him twice. I know I've at least told him once.
I actually came back from a trip to Austin, Texas, and I'd been
in Austin, Texas for a month playing at the lodge. There's also a
room review on that by the way, if you I'm going to go back
and look. But I came back and I told him, I'm like,
man, I would just put our dealers here in this little poker room up
against any dealers at any card room I play at, Like sure we have.
There's a few dealers here that just you know, maybe aren't the greatest
in the world, but on average, they're all pretty amazing, some of
them incredibly amazing. And I'll even go so far as to say, and
I won't name names, but there's one, perhaps two, for sure,
one the best dealer I've ever had anywhere at any card room. I would
say. The only dealer that comes close to this particular dealer is a dealer
that I mentioned when I played down at Derby Lane in Saint Peter, Florida,
and I actually mentioned him in the room review I did for Derby Lane.
That's a room review you can go back and check out that I did
in the past. So let's go over some pros and cons. The pros
of Ebro Poker Room, twenty minutes north of Panama City Beach, Florida.
Loose action matter. There's always plenty of action. Very rarely do you sit
down on a table and they're it in action. So if you like action,
you like getting in the mix, you will find plenty of it.
The staff and the players are all very friendly. The food is good.
They have free player accounts which I use, so they don't have like the
safety deposit box type things, but they do have a free player's account.
So if you don't like traveling in and out with large amounts of money and
you're gonna be there for a week, or you're gonna be there for two
weeks, or maybe you're a snowbird coming down and staying for three months,
you can set up a player's account and you just keep money there in the
cage and you don't have to worry about taking it in and out when you
leave. I would say there's a few cons. Every room has its cons.
One is the pricey food. Food is, in my opinion, very
pricey. I always compare it to best Bet Jacksonville. Best Bet Jacksonville just
just such a great job with food, Like they have a phenomenal menu and
it's very affordable. Like rarely when I go to best Bet Jacksonville do I
spend more than eight dollars for a meal. For example, I can get
their chicken tenders and fries eight bucks. If you get the chicken tenders and
fries at Ebro, it's going to be thirteen dollars, So it's a pretty
significant difference. Now that being said, the chicken tenders and fries at Ebro,
they're a favorite. You can never go wrong with them. They're really
good. Food's good, but it can be pricey. The music repeats.
It's amazing how many times I'm at the table and we're just having a discussion
about this is the sixth time I've heard this song today. They have playlists
there that they play repeatedly, and I don't know how many playlists there are,
but it seems like maybe there's only two or three different playlists, and
they maybe only have thirty or forty different songs on them. So if you
play a six hour session or eight hour session, you're just gonna keep hearing
the same songs over and over and over again. It's not uncommon to hear
the same song, you know, five or six times. Like I remember
one day I heard this what's this song? You got a fast car?
I got it? I heard that song. I swear to god, I
heard seven times in this in one day, and it was just driving me
batty. I don't know why, but you know, carry earbuds. I
carry earbuds. When the music gets too annoying, I just pop the earbuds
and listen to whatever I want. Uh. It can be difficult to get
a bigger game going sometimes, so for some reason, they have this rule
about they have to fill all the empty one two seats to be able to
start a bigger game. So let's say that you have like four to one
to two tables going, and spread out amongst those four tables, there are
eight players who to play one three, and or maybe there's even nine or
ten or eleven players in the room that want to play one three. They
will not take those eight players off those one two tables and start a one
three game until they have enough one two players to come in in a waiting
list to fill those empty seats. It's inexplicable to me. What's weird to
me is and good. I don't run the poker room, so you know,
the things I've learned in my life that I'm professional at, or I've
always been really good at, it annoyed me when people tried to tell me
how to do what I did, so I try to keep that in mind
when I'm thinking about what other people do. But it seems to me that
one two is the game that the most people are coming into play, Like,
filling those seats just can't be hard. Like that's ninety percent of the
people that walk through the door are coming in there to play that one two
game. So you know, the one three game is the more difficult game,
and you know, finally we get eight, nine, ten players.
There's seems to me we could start it and the one two seats would probably
fill up pretty quickly thereafter and it wouldn't be an issue. I will say
this, This rule about waiting or something varies by floor, so some floors
are more accommodating than others. Nevertheless, it's a quirk. Every room has
its quirk, and it's not a deal breaker by any stretch, but sometimes
it can be mildly frustrating. I would just like to say, you know,
this is my homeroom, and although I do travel and I spend at
least half the year of the year playing here, I spend about half the
year traveling to other rooms. So you know, over the course of the
past five years, six years, really I've been traveling a lot. I
would say I've played close to one hundred poker rooms and I've not moved anywhere
else, and I've not made any other poker room my home poker room.
That should tell you something about this, because I have the freedom and liberty
to live and play anywhere that I want, So that should tell you a
little bit about How about the room I had. I remember I had an
issue one time. It was I don't know if it was super serious,
but it was, you know, it was a point of contention, and
I actually had the poker room manager got my cell phone number from another player
there and called me at home on my cell phone to discuss it and resolving
to make things Things were good. And I just don't know how many poker
rooms, you would get something like that from it's. It really is a
you know, it's it has kind of a local, kind of a hometown,
you know, very very friendly vibe, like they're all business and everything,
but it has a very friendly, local kind of vibe and I appreciate
that a lot. I will say, it's a dog track that I believe
was built back in the nineteen fifties, so it's not the most modern of
facilities now. I do understand that they maybe have plans here in the near
future that they will be building a new a new poker room and its own
structure, and then maybe in the sold dog track and it's three stories of
grand stands down. But for right now, it's you know, it's in
any old he's been a very old dog track. So it's not the most
modern facilities. But man, it's very friendly, just great action. It's
professional staff, great dealers on average, and it is my home room for
a reason. If you stop by some time, maybe your vacation in Panama
City Beach, Florida, step in and say, hey, I have you
heard that guy that does that podcast around here? Late I'd like to say
hi to him. That'll wrap this one up. I hope you guys are
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