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 Post subject: Re: Poker in San Jose
PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:03 pm 
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JazzboCR wrote:
This tourney has passed but gives you the scale at this magnificent venue:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=38661 >> PS--He doesn't call himself Vegas Bob for nothing


Why would you call the palacio a 'magnificent venue'? There is barely any action there whenever I go. Maybe I'm missing something?


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 Post subject: Re: Poker in San Jose
PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:37 pm 
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Hangman wrote:
JazzboCR wrote:
This tourney has passed but gives you the scale at this magnificent venue:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=38661 >> PS--He doesn't call himself Vegas Bob for nothing


Why would you call the palacio a 'magnificent venue'? There is barely any action there whenever I go. Maybe I'm missing something?

I meant the physical appointments in the place, not any action therein. But look here and judge for yourself:
http://www.barcelo.com/BarceloHotels/en ... o/Home.htm

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 Post subject: Re: Poker in San Jose
PostPosted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:49 am 
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CRGolfer wrote:
Del Rey has a game going by about 4:00pm each day. Game ends by 4:00 am. Expect one full table and on Friday/Saturday expect two tables. The normal limits are 1/2 with the occasional 2/5 game. Mixture of tourists and local poker die hards. Good action and an improving game as far as the management is concerned on a daily basis. They have a new casino manager who did the right thing about two months ago when he mentioned the bad beat pool would be going up but needed to verify it with the accountant who had just returned from vacation. Sure enough the jackpot his that same night! Within 30 minutes he heard about it and came back and stood by his word and raised the jackpot without waiting for the accountant and payed the players on the spot. One player, a local, had already left the table and he tracked him down and paid the difference the following day

Barcelo San Jose Palacio has a poker room, No Limit Club, on site. You can search for their page on Facebook if you so desire. This is THE PLACE for ALL POKER action in San Jose. Daily tournament, cash games, Hold 'em, Omaha, 1/2, 2/5, 5/10. On Friday and Saturday you are likely to see Humberto Brenes or his son Alex playing in the 2/5 or 5/10 games. Even better and more intersting players who you will have never heard of unless you play in Bobby's room at Belagio are also staples of this poker room. Palacio is also the current home to Poker Hispano Tour events. You can check out pokerhispano.com for information on upcoming events. Usually once a month they host a $30k guaranteed event that brings out a log of the poker players from around Costa Rica and even some from Panama. I played in the Poker Hispano Tour main event in January (may have actually been first week of Feb) which was $150k guaranteed.

As far as I know, at the moment the games that once existed in Sleep Inn and Horseshoe are dead. Dunn Inn had a great game going for a week but after some changes of opinion on behalf of the management that place is and will always be dead to me..... rob me once by about 20% on the exchange rate and I will NEVER forget.

Outside of San Jose there are some good regular tournaments scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. Info can be found at costaricapoker.org for these events. Tournaments take place at two different casinos, one is at Hotel Riu's casino... Casino Las Olas and the other location is the old Coco Verde casino in Playas del Coco. These tournaments include several players who have cashed in multiple WSOP main event and other WSOP events as well as winners of Poker Hispano Tour events and a couple of players who have made it to final tables of Poker Stars Sunday Millions events. Even one player who was childhood chess buddies with Gus Hansen and co-host of the World Series of Backhamon with Gus Hansen just a couple of years ago. Cash games usually happen on occasion after some of the bigger guaranteed events (once a month is a $3k guarantee event at Casino Las Olas and last week the prize pool was I believ $4,400ish)



WOW!!! thats AMAZING about the BAD BEAT Issue you mentioned!! IS it yet ANOTHER NEW Casino Manager, from when I was there, and they said HE was New?? That was MArch 20, 2010. Nice guy, Supposedly worked at ceasars or something.,.

And Humberto Brenes and or his son Alex. CMON NOW!!! R U SERIOUS!! I Love wtahcing Humberto Play! GREAT PLAYER AS WELL!!

As previously mentioned by others, som GREAT INFO HERE! Thats


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 Post subject: Re: Poker in San Jose
PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 8:59 pm 
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doberso wrote:
Good evening.  I read a lot of posts and I decided to add my own opinion.


I will say you have been doing lots of reading........ You managed to dig up a thread that is 8 years old and then had to post about a crappy gambling website..... I highly doubt the contributors to this thread have any interest in online gambling as the poker games they are referring too are live games with humans.


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