Voodoo Card Club, a thank you

General Zod

Hello All,

Last night myself and the fiancée ventured into a card club for the first time to play a tournament. My only experience of poker before was online on Paddy Power or in games with friends and aquaintances, so I was going in as a very noobish player.

The tourney was a 6000 deep stack freezeout for €20, and was run very well.

I made a few noobish mistakes (as to the etiquette of playing) but learned quickly. Played a few hands well and a few hands not so well. I wasn't first out at my table, so I regard that as my victory for the night

a big thanks to Derek for making us feel very welcome and for taking the time to chat to me about tournament play and poker play in general.
a good night and a very positive first experience of tournament poker.

connie147

So good to read a report like that.

Its so much better than seeing the "noobies" getting flamed by the "experts" as in "how did you call me with that" etc etc etc. One of my pet hates in the game as we should be doing everything we can to get online players and new players to play live and treat them well enough so that they want to come back.

Well done to the staff there for making it an enjoyable experience for the op and his girlfriend.

Connie

miju

myself and the girlfriend play regular in the Monday & Tuesday night tourneys and just to echo your comments. Herself in particular has been in a few other clubs and had bad experience with players on her table / dealers etc.

But in the Voodoo they are completely the opposite and that's why we keep going back there :-) . Voodoo Lounge is filled with VERY friendly, chatty, helpful staff, chatty / helpful players and well run tables of course.

So kudos to the Voodoo Lounge for a great place to play cards (now do I get a free Voodoo t-shirt like I was promised before LOL)

zuutroy

Yep, definitely a nice play to play.

big_iain

It is funny you should post these comments. Mrs. Big_iain has had the same experience at some clubs and a one time completely put her off poker for 2 years.

A dealer once gave out to her becasue she made a simple mistake when raising. Obviously used to electronic dealers doing everything so she wasn't up on all the ways and means.

The dealer made her feel like an idiot. So there was one extra night a week I didn't play and she cooled on poker.

Thank god that tosser doesn't deal anymore. In fact he is a bouncer now at a different club. And when you leave the building you are lucky to get a grunt. Just what you want when you've had a bad beat.


Good luck to couple friendly or should i say normal clubs everywhere.

@Connie. Unfortunately, i have an instigator of this telling people 'what did you call me with that for' i have tried so hard to stop. There should be a new group set up called 'don't tap on the aquarium anonymous'

Moneymaker

They do an awesome fry up too.

petethebrick

+1

A great new addition to dublin poker scene

Suited

Really enjoy the club. Seems to be really picking up over the last few weeks. Good numbers there on Tuesday.

BillyBones

Just posted on another thread about the Voodoo. The way they are trying to do things is the way it should be done. Poker players in general should be happy a new club is out there which can only make the rest of the clubs up their game. From what I can work out the people at the Voodoo have a background in poker and it shows. If there was an award for the friendliest club the Voodoo would be the big favourite at the moment.

miju

BillyBones wrote: »

Just posted on another thread about the Voodoo. The way they are trying to do things is the way it should be done. Poker players in general should be happy a new club is out there which can only make the rest of the clubs up their game. From what I can work out the people at the Voodoo have a background in poker and it shows. If there was an award for the friendliest club the Voodoo would be the big favourite at the moment.

+1 QFT

PocketAces

Yep another positive experience of the Voodoo Card Club here... Was in the deepstack FO last Tuesday and had a great time. I wasn't woahfully out classed as I had feared , had some nice people at the table, had a lovely panini and chips when I got knocked out ........ and couple of my mates had the same experience. Had a sneaky pint in some pub during the interval ! Is there a bar in the casino? Missed it if there is !

Anyways, nice place, I'll be returning if not this Tuesday then probably next

monoP54

Okay. I'm convinced. Any card club that can avoid that all too familiar cliquish closed shop feel will do well in Dublin. Definitely going to see what all the fuss is about in the next few days.

J_Mac

Its nice to see smaller stakes tournments in action . My pet peeve in live poker has always been the general high cost of playing in tournments. I think all card clubs should have at the very least, 1 low buy-in game a week.