Jackson Rancheria Review
A largish Indian casino just south of Sacramento, Jackson Rancheria offers a nice poker room in addition to their standard tables games and slots. The complex also includes a hotel and conference center.
Game Character: A lot of beginners at 3/6, and many fairly unskilled players even at 4/8. This leads to a lot of loose passive play, although an occasionaly maniac can spice things up.
Posting: New players do not need to post.
Shuffling: All tables have Shufflemaster machines
Wait Time: Varies from time to time, but will generally be from 0-30 minutes. For larger limit games, wait can be enormous.
Smoking: none
Tournaments
* Sun-Thu 10am NLHE 25+5, 1x25 ao
* Fri-Sat 10am NLHE 50+10
* Sun-Thu 7:30pm NLHE 55+5
Jackpots and Promotions
* Bad Beat Jackpot: AAAJJ or better beat by anything = $14361 (Feb 2007).
* Bonus Hands: showdown the hand (both hole cards must play) to win the prize:
o JJJJ or better quads = 100
o straight flush = 250
o royal flush = 500
Atmosphere
Since the expansion in late 2006, the Jackson Rancheria poker room is now a quite nice and reasonably-sized poker room. At peak times (weekend evenings, especially), it's completely full, but it's almost exclusively low limit players. On a recent Saturday night, while all 15 tables were running, there were no 6/12 tables, and only one 4/8. The room caters to the beginner player - at 3/6 dealers patiently explain to players about protecting their hand, betting out of turn, proper bet amounts, etc.
Recently remodeled, some high-tech advances have gone in: each table has electronic signalling for "seat open" and "service" (but the room has no chip runners, buy chips from the brush or from the dealer themself). Nice automated software for running the board is visible not only at a screen at the main desk but also on four large screens posted around the room, so all players can watch the wait list grow. Four largish LCD TV's are also hung on the walls for player enjoyment.
Neighborhood: As with most Indian casinos, it's in a remote agricultural area. In this case, it's nestled in a hilly area south of Sacramento, on a remote country road. Nothing around for miles, but driving there can be a bit nerve-wracking - the two-lane hilly road that goes there is often loaded with cars zooming in both directions, so watch yourself.
Parking: Lots of parking in the large parking structure in back.
Tables and Chairs: extra-large 9-seat tables with short-cropped green felt that is unusually slick, and nice black vinyl. Decent fixed-frame padded metal chairs.
Service and Comps
Standard casino cocktail service; free drinks etc. Apparently the iced mochas are particularly good, since a lot of people were drinking them. Pretty good service frequency; waitresses come by about every 30 mins.
Artist/Author: PokerWiki April 1, 2007 | |
