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Originally Posted by links_slayer  Any CT'ers played here? A buddy of mine are heading up to the Twin Cities to visit his brother in a few weeks and he mentioned hitting up the tables there. |
This is my regular card room. I play there probably 3 times a week in the winter and once or so a week in the summer.
The Games they have:
They only have limit, but have 40 tables so it is a big card room. On a Friday night the place will be buzzing with most of the 40 tables filled up and lots of fish. I concur that they will NOT do a spread limit game. Limit is the only game here. Most of the out of town Indian casinos/card rooms have spread limit but not Canterbury. They do have NL SNG & NL Tourneys. You have to check the schedule for that but Limit is the main game at Canterbury. They have 2/4, 3/6, 4/8, 6/12, 8/16, 15/30, & 30/60. On a Friday night they will most certainly have multiple tables of all limits going. 5 bets caps it unless you are heads up and then there is no limit to the number of bets. You can keep re-raising as long as the other player does the same until one of you runs out of chips. They do have a bad beat jackpot. The hold-em jackpot is $47,311 as of this afternoon. It goes up every day at 4:00pm and generally goes up 5 grand or so a day.
The games I play:
I usually play 6/12, but have been known to play 4/8 and occasionally 8/16. the 6/12 game is usually quite a bit more conservative than either of the other 2. The fact that 6/12 is a 3 chip game and both 4/8 & 8/16 are 4 chip games makes for bigger looking pots. For some strange reason this seems to influence how people tend to play. They will be significantly looser in the 4 chip game than the 3 chip game. If you do decide to play 8/16, especially on a Fri night, be prepared! There is a decent chance that you will find yourself in a game where it gets capped 5 or 6 ways preflop quite often. It can get pretty wild at times. Even though most of the players will show up at the table with 1 rack of $2 chips for the 8/16 game this is not nearly enough in this type of game. I would not suggest playing at less than 4/8 as the rake is pretty stiff as a % of the pots at the lower limits.
The cardroom:
As far as the card room itself and chips go. I think it is a pretty nice room. It is not brand new or super glitzy or anything but it is clean and smoke free. It is generally a pleasant place to be. They have lots of TV's and a computerized board for the wait list. You normally won't wait more than 10 or 15 minutes to get in a game unless you are there at an especially busy time. It is quite large (40 tables) The service is decent. The food is all pretty good. High on my list are burgers, club sandwich, soups (best value) noodle bowl & stir fry are both excellent. Comps are ok, 60¢/hr on blue chip games and 75¢/hr on yellow chip (6/12, 8/16). not sure on the 15/30 &30/60 as I don't play that big a game. You don't need to do anything special other than ask for a VIP card to get the comps so you might as well just get it right away and start earning some free grub.
Chips:
Chips are Bud Jones with the brass insert. I actually don't mind them so much. I prefer Paulson's or any Clay chips, but after a while you get used to them and they handle fine. They are not slippery, they stack well and you can even get used to shuffling up to 20 or so at a time pretty easily. They do tend to stick to each other a bit more than clays do but this particular version is much less prone to that than some of the others.
Nanook
