Saturday, August 12, 2006

Carnival Cruise - Celebration!

Well, I'm back and we had a fantastic time.... the poker however was a little suspect! They advertise their cruise lines as the FUN SHIPS and they were.... but I wouldn't sign up just for the poker. They had two Hold 'em tables stuffed over in the corner just outside the Casino. The games, either $2/$4 Limit or $3/$6 Limit based on the table preference and I never could get them above the $2/$4 game. The house rake should be spelled with a "p" and not a "k." They were pulling $1 on $10 up to a maximum of $5 being raked. Minimum buy-in of $20 for the $2/$4 and (theoretically) $30 on the $3/$6. So basically it was a table full of donkeys all day every day. And if you do the math, everytime a guy sits down with $20, the house takes that in rakes every 5 hands. LOL. Nice!

The ship was great! The staff was great! The food was great! The weather was great... but the Hold 'em sucked.

I did play and I won everytime I played which was amazing considering the suck-outs that went on at the table..... I'll tell you about them in a little later post, but it was a great cruise and we had a great time, but don't schedule it just to play poker.

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