S04E36 - Win! Derby St Pete - Room Review

Today is a poker room review episode. I will be reviewing Win! derby in St Petersburg Florida, also known as Derby Lane.

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Recap of todays episode.

Derby lane, Win! Derby

Tall tables, big tables. 9 comfortable
Good dealers (Randall)
Good food

1/3 prime $200 to $1500
7 +3 rake
$3 JP 1@ 10, 20, 30
$7 Rk 1@ 5,15,25,35,45,55,65

$1 JP is just for prime tables. Any quads you get instant pay $500

The other $2 JP puts you also in for room high hand promotions which were good every day i was there.

All drinks free, even alcoholic

You accumulate $3 rake back which you can claim for food at 5 hours. So $15 food voucher

When you log 50 hours a month you get $500 cash redeemable the following month

I’ve done some math and these comes out better than the 6/2 rake at a lot of poker rooms in Florida with the kick backs. Especially if you normally eat food while you okay. It’s way better than rooms like Jacksonville that take a piece even if there isn’t a drop which is egregious. Derby is no flop no drop.

You are encouraged to play solid tight aggressive poker because of the rake. And play bigger pots. Consider a $35 pot 7 will come out. That’s 23%

To get the full rake to reasonable you’d need a $200 pot at which point they are taking 5%.

I founds this wasn’t a problem as my $25 raises over one or two limpers was usually called by a couple of players.

I found that most players played at least $500 and higher with the occasional &200 stack sitting in.

I didn’t play the 1/2 game but a dealer was explaining it to a player at the table.

1/2 has an instant high hand payout as well for quads but it’s only $150. If you have logged 60 hours that month and you hit then you get double. $300.
No free drinks. No food comps.

Cons.

Win! derby. What a name lol

Chips are horrible. 5 different designs and colors.

Several days with 8, and 10 tables only one waitress. Took forever to get drink orders. Jessica was amazing tho. She did a 14 hour shift one day and I was there entire 14 hours and she worked her ass off.

Charge you for the entire meal if you just order the protein with no sides. My first two days I ordered only the chicken or the fish no sides they cut a small discount. The last day , Jessica the same waitress , said I put it in as $8.95 and they put it though but said to tell you from now own you pay the full meal price of $16 for the meal. Even if you only get the meat.

Way to nickel and dime people. But it’s not just them. Lots of rooms do this. But for the record. It’s dumb. Cut carnivores a break. It’s less work for cooks and less food you are sending out.

One person can over ride bomb pot during promo hours.

Staff cleared our entire table one day with transfers.

Didn’t pay high hand because floor didn’t make it to table until 2 minutes after high hand period ended. Dealer confirmed it happened before. Unacceptable