"Irish Mike"
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Sep 30, 2007, 6:45 PM
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I've played at Canterbury several times and liked how the room was run.
They had a zero tolerance policy toward rude, disruptive players and
excessive profanity. I was so impressed that I asked a shift manager how
they did it. He said that when the poker room opened they brought in some
floor people who had worked in Calif. poker rooms and were sick of the bull
shit players got away with. So, they decided it was going to be different
at Canterbury. He said they found the six or eight biggest loud-mouthed
jerks and kicked their asses out. The other players got the message and
started behaving better and following the rules. I couldn't help thinking
that most of the Atlantic City, LA and Vegas poker rooms should have fired
their semi-useless floor people and brought in these guys.
Irish Mike
"Scott/sjakma" <scott@scottadams.com> wrote in message
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> Nice trip report. I have not played at Canterbury Park for about 2
> years. Are they still getting the massive crowds on the weekends? The
> last few times I was there, I had to wait 3 -4 hours to get a table and I
> felt like the floor staff spent too much time filling the 2/4 limit tables
> and forgot about the people waiting for the higher limits. Still a very
> nice place and I always look forward to playing there when I visit Minn.
>
> Scott
> On Sep 30 2007 12:12 PM, danc55344 wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After a rained out golf outing in Prior Lake I stopped by Canterbury
>> Park yesterday after a long hiatus from poker.
>>
>> I quickly learned of a couple changes. First, the rake on games 8/16
>> and below went to $5 plus a $1 jackpot drop. It was a little
>> startling seeing those redbirds going down the chute. They appeared
>> to try to soften this blow by offering a $.75 per hour rakeback in the
>> form of comp certificates in their MVP Rewards program.
>>
>> The players at the 8/16 table I was at noted Canterbury added a $1
>> jackpot drop to the 15/30 and 30/60 games, there had previously been
>> no jackpot drop on those tables. I believe they also reported the
>> 15/30 and 30/60 rakes were kept at $4.
>>
>> Full disclosure, I hit a bad beat jackpot at Canterbury in 2005 so I
>> got my money back out of the jackpot drop. Still, it was nice to be
>> able to escape that drop at 15/30.
>>
>> I could not find any rake information on their website, but there are
>> some blurbs on the MVP Program. One very nice unadvertised bonus for
>> poker players is that if you ask nicely the floorpeople will always
>> validate your valet parking ticket. Saves you $6 when you don't want
>> to trek in from the parking lot in bad MN weather.
>>
>> Play at the 8/16 games was very much the same as it always has been.
>> There were two very juicy 8/16 games going the times I was there. I
>> spent the afternoon getting run down by horrible players calling any
>> draw. Frustrating to lose so many at the river, but that makes for
>> great games. Sure is fun when they miss!
>>
>> The staff is still excellent and they run games very well. They went
>> to an electronic board some time ago, that I still don't like. As a
>> customer looking for games, the whiteboard provided a very quick and
>> easy visual reference of the location and status of every game in the
>> place. I think the electronic screens work well for the staff, but
>> the information players need is nowhere near as accessible.
>>
>> Still a great place to play but that rake increase is a bummer.
>
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