I was in CR in November. I stayed in the Amon Plaza (great hotel, great CRT rate, attached to Casino Paradiso). I was told they spread No Limit Hold 'Em. I stayed 8 nights. Only one night did a game go off, and that was because some gringos who all live and work in CR (work for an internet sportsbook) told the owner they wanted to come play a game. Basically, they have 1 table and will spread a game if their is enough people interested. Their dealers were good though.
The Casino Europa (very close to Amon Plaza) had games every night. They have a NLHE game with $1-2 blinds. Unfortunately, the max buy-in was only $100, which is a pretty bad structure for NL. Some of the players were simply terrible, which is good. The other games they had were a ridiculous NLHE game with blinds of 100-200 colones (litte less than 25c-50c) and an initial max buy-in of like 6K colones. Obviously you would only play this for fun (low low stakes and horrible structure). I sat in this game by accident (language problems).
I wish I could tell you about the tournaments, but I always missed them. I always got to the Casino Europa way too late (had other things to do, like whoring). If you want to play poker, you have to get there early. It was not like any card room in the US, where you can stroll in at 11 PM and many games are going strong. I would stroll in at 11 PM and only 4 people would be left in the $1-2 NL game. They said they often started at 4 PM and the game would start thinning out at night.
Other games I saw were peopling playing bridge, playing Chinese poker, and playing Pot Limit Omaha 4 handed. The blinds of that short handed PLO game were $5-10 I think. It might have been a rotation game.
The poker room manger is Luis Szlak. He speaks English. This should be his email address: lszlak@racsa.co.cr
You can ask him what nights the tournaments are (I know 3 nights a week, but I forget which). Also, I think he can get you a poker rate room at Hotel Morazon (close to Del Rey), because supposedly they have the same ownership. I highly recomend the Amon Plaza though (very quick and cheap taxi ride to the Casino Europa, and you might get lucky and catch a game in the Paradiso).
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...and not just for the chicas. See you at a table sometime 2nd week of Nov.
. I have heard another poker room is being built and developed here in town, but will withhold any info until it is verified.
