3rd day only 6 interested player and they were unable to start a tournament the rest of the cruise. As such, if there were actually a 10 person poker tournament started three times a day there would be total entry fees of $ 1,800 out which the would keep $ 450.ġst day overflow of people wanting to play a poker tournament. On sea days, three poker tournaments were schedule for each day. (3) POKER TOURAMENT - Entry fee is $60, 10 people per table and the casino keeps 25%. Due to the high rake, most days there was not enough players willing to play to get a poker game started.
Even the best professional poker players can not win with this high of a house rank. Which means the Fortunes casino is taking from $ 400 to $ 700 dollars an hour off the poker table. Most land based poker rooms have a 10% rake up to $4 or $ 5. Since most player were not interested in betting $ 25 or more per bet, most of the time the table was completely empty. Seldom saw anyone play Craps for more than 15 or 20 minutes. Which is a huge increase in the house edge against the player who wants to play less than $25 on the pass or come bets. (1) CRAPS games allows only two time odds if the pass/come bet is less than $25.
I was not expecting the various tables to have even average casino odds for the players, but actually shocked at how bad the table games on my two week cruise.
