Poker Tournaments on RCCL

[PhoenixDawgCruising]

This is why when we want to play poker, we leave a nice little note posted on the community board by Guest Relations, and we set up a game in the card room for anyone that wants to play for real money, not an unfree free cruise.

 

We always find people that want to play, sometimes enough for 2 or 3 tables.:)

[Submariner]

This is why when we want to play poker, we leave a nice little note posted on the community board by Guest Relations, and we set up a game in the card room for anyone that wants to play for real money, not an unfree free cruise.

 

We always find people that want to play, sometimes enough for 2 or 3 tables.:)

 

Mighty fine idea, that! I will look out for that on my next trip...

[arc918]

This is why when we want to play poker, we leave a nice little note posted on the community board by Guest Relations, and we set up a game in the card room for anyone that wants to play for real money, not an unfree free cruise.

 

We always find people that want to play, sometimes enough for 2 or 3 tables.:)

 

great idea - I like it!

[justtrustmedude]

I love cash games. The problem is that once people have spent their money on ridiculous tournaments, their spouses are angry and they don't play the cash games.

[curley23]

The tournament they have going on right now on RCCL is a total rip off. They advertise that the winner gets a FREE CRUISE. Here is a rundown of what it costs to win the so called free cruise.

 

First of all, it costs $70 to buy in. (for that you get $1000 in chips) but anytime your stack gets to be less than $1000 you can buy another stack of $1000 for $40. Sounds great, right? It's not. By then the blinds have gone up so $1000 chips doesn't get you very far. It is also disheartening that every time you finally knock out a player, they just buy back in over and over again. Finally when the blinds are astronomically high, they give everyone at the table one more chance to re-buy which forces you to do so or else you'll likely be short stacked.

 

At the end of the tournament, all the money from all the players (buy-ins and endless re-buys) goes not to the winner, but to the casino. The winner of the tournament gets NOTHING. He or she gets a seat at the final table on the last day of the cruise. Well, there are lots of tournaments and most people, if they didn't win yet, they play again and again. Losing hundreds of dollars every time.

 

On the final day, the day of the big tournament. Every winner sits at the final table with the amount in chips that his table collected when he won. It may be completely unfair. On some tables, there are 9 players who each did a gazillion rebuys so that player comes to the table with, say, $30,000 in chips. On another table, people had already lost a lot of money and made a decision not to rebuy and so the winner on that table comes in with only $7000 in chips. There is an argument that the first player had to knock out more people who had more money so he must be better, but that's not necessarily true. If you get 9 very average players at a table at one time, someone is going to win eventually.

 

Some people play over and over again. A couple on our ship played in every tournament and never won a seat (kept coming in second or third). By the end of the cruise, they had EACH lost almost a thousand dollars to the tournament)

 

Did you actually think the RC is going to just give out a potential of hundreds of cruises for nothing?? The tourn. is designed to generate revenue to pay for those free cruises, and then some.

Just another gimmick to generate $$. I would doubt if you were the winner for the week, that there would be any chirping here.

[MomtoCCC]

This is why when we want to play poker, we leave a nice little note posted on the community board by Guest Relations, and we set up a game in the card room for anyone that wants to play for real money, not an unfree free cruise.

 

We always find people that want to play, sometimes enough for 2 or 3 tables.:)

 

DH and I like to play also. I've wondered about setting something like this up. RCCL doesn't mind if people are playing in the card room for money?? Much better than the tournaments and electronic poker table :)

[Submariner]

DH and I like to play also. I've wondered about setting something like this up. RCCL doesn't mind if people are playing in the card room for money?? Much better than the tournaments and electronic poker table :)

 

Plus, assuming you have a few people interested, you can all buy your chips from the casino and play with those - instead of using your own...

[frito58]

I have been on cruises where they were doing 10% rake no limit :eek::eek: and these people couldn't understand why I would not sit down . I said you can not beat the rake in this game. But people wanted to play the cruise ship could care less becaue there is so little money for them to make in poker even with these outlandish rakes. They make their money on slots and the table games that favor them. I love to play poker but not on cruise ships.

[PhoenixDawgCruising]

I've had poker games for $$ in the card room on several ships, nobody from Royal ever seemed to care in the slightest. In fact, had a crew member in a game once, shhhhhhhh, don't tell.;)

 

And I bring my own chips, they don't take up much space.:D