Poker

David Pristupa says on Jan 15, 2008, 17:10:

You could start a meetup on meetup.com
if you can't find a venue or folks that
play.

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RAAAY says on Jan 15, 2008, 21:24:

Yes...........in most of the casinos.............and one of the nice things about poker here is, the natives can't play for shit................it's like taking candy fom a baby...( as the yanks might say )..............

.........Its useless to argue with ignorance

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spigrimace says on Jan 16, 2008, 07:00:

Im surprised no one has started a poker room in Medellin. I met the gentleman that has a poker room in Bogota. He says it´s a nice little stream of income. I could fix up the 2nd floor in my place and do it but I have no clue as it´s not my thing and I never play, so if anyone wants an easy start up with many gringo and colombian clients with a few pesos to burn that already frequent and wager on sports/horses here at the sports bar and wishes to sub-rent a nice space on the 2nd floor here that is very private, let´s talk. spigrimace at yahoo.com.

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rhydewithdis (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jan 16, 2008, 08:50:

kenbone says on Jan 16, 2008, 11:21:

Sweet!! I love killing time playing cards. Do you have any idea what the structure is? Limit or no limit. Can you get in a game and make a few hundred bucks? Thanks!


Spigrimace,

Can one just start a poker room there as you suggest? Would there be laws against that or is it the type of place where no one would care?

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Saltador says on Jan 16, 2008, 12:52:

One night in Cartagena at LaPerla I made about 700 bucks playing Texas Hold Em. It was pretty fun. I would have made more (I was HOT) but my girlfriend kept bugging me to leave because she was aburrido. Very rude of her :-)
But they have changed one thing at LaPerla since then, now you need I think a minimum of 500,000 pesos to sit down and play. Before it was 100,000.

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droble77 says on Jan 16, 2008, 13:07:

My buddy made pretty good one night at the casino next to the Oviedo mall. I think in MDE, they don't allow no-limit games. In Cartagena, they might, or so my buddy told me. It think it's true the locals are not good players, but try not to take TOO much advantage, as that can probably land you in trouble. I wasn't too keen about stepping into a cab right outside of the casino with my buddy about a million pesos richer late at night. Plus we went to this bar in a shady part of town right after that, and he continued to drink himself selfless (I think they plugged him with 5 free cocktails at the casino!). Nothing happened, but I'm not too keen on his level of risk tolerance! :0)

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Saltador says on Jan 16, 2008, 13:18:

I wasn't really taking advantage of anyone, most of the players there play every night and some of them are not bad. I consider myself average. I just got hot, had some really good hands, and good timing, for instance I ended up with a full house the same hand some guy flopped an Ace high flush. He tried to slow play it thinking he couldn't be beat and wow was he pissed after he went all in and then saw what I had :-)

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spigrimace says on Jan 16, 2008, 13:21:

Kenbone, the gentleman who owns the poker room in Bogota said he simply went to the Alcaldia´s planeacion dept and got the permiso. In Medellin, my experience is that they say NO very easily however, I can not think all those hidden "casas" like over by the San Juan are registered in any way. So here in Medellin I suggest the following: 1) Find a private spot like my 2nd floor which has no windows, a door and private bathroom. Who would ever know about the thursday night poker game, that sells booze and takes a rake, up there????? 2) Go to the Alcaldia de Medellin´s dept de planeacion in the Alpujarra and ask what the reuqirements would be. I´d guess they´d want to issue a Casino license. That means also registering with the camara commercio, getting a RUT, etc. etc. etc. to open a business, paying taxes, like they would ever know how much volume you do.

Read this about gaming rules. The rules fall under a national level under Colombia´s servicio de salud:

http://www.saludcolombia.com/actual/htmlnormas/LEY643.htm

YES it would be illegal without permiso and also with the sale of licor and a rake, but everytime I have been to the Alcaldia de Medellin´s dept de planeación they are very frank and talk about tolerence. An un-registered, 6 guys in a poker game where the biggest winner/loser is $500,000 pesos even with a rake I think would be left alone. A $10 millones buy in tournament with 100 participants would be a no-no I would think. They leave all the local park chess type gamblers alone. My suggestion is word of mouth without any flyers and watch who you give/talk to. I really think my place would be great because of it´s privacy, and no one would suspect anything even with cars outside due to the bar next door open until 2am. So my suggestion is you close the game at 1:45am and all out the door at 1:55am and no one is the wiser. Good luck.

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ujay says on Jan 16, 2008, 13:50:

there is a guy in medellin that runs a card game ,i seen it in one of the posts.
but you want to play in bogota ,you get the players i will get you the place to play.

http://www.jukelightning.com

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