From: mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako)
Newsgroups: rec.gambling
Subject: Re: Cameo Club Update
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: mitch@lsil.com
Organization: LSI Computing Systems

In article 15863@kpc.com, why@kpc.com (Will Hyde) writes:
>In article <5txn9np.slick@netcom.com> slick@netcom.com (Martin Veneroso) writes:
>>mitch@lsil.com (Mitch Sako) writes:
>>>I stopped by the Cameo to checkout the no-limit holdem games this weekend
>>>and to my surprise, they have changed the holdem games, for the worse.  It
>>>seems that the city council of Palo Alto has gotten into the act and has
>>>really screwed them over.  The first change is that time collections are now
>>>collected on the button and chopped from the pot instead of being paid on
>>>the half hour.  Although this is probably a change for the better it doesn't
>>>play out that way.
>  C'mon mitch, you been around longer than that.  Consider:  The "new
>  regulation that allows only 8 players per game" occured simultaneously
>  with the change to raking the pot on a per hand basis (from time) ...
>>>The second change (and most brutal) is that the games are all limited now
>>>to eight players.  Heck, I thought the Garden City was bad news at nine 
>>>handed but now, eight handed?  Get real.  The city council must be on the
>>>payroll of Artichoke Joes AND the Garden City.
>  City council my ass!  If they could get away with limiting the games
>  to four players, don't you think they'd do that?  Considering that
>  they are taking their cut per hand now....
>  I worked in that joint for fifteen years, back when Leo Brandt had it
>  and all the action was no-limit lowball ... the city council never,
>  not once in fifteen years, interfered in the operation of that joint.

I'm pretty sure it was the city that put this regulation in the books.
8-handed games are going to kill the joint.

>  Don't lose any sleep over the fate of the Cameo Club.  Marko and the
>  boys already own the Sutter's license ... watch for them to build a
>  new 50-table joint somewhere in San Jose ... and the Cameo Club is
>  only moving.  The new joint is already in the works.

The Sutter's license and subsequent opening at the Italian Gardens is
not a sure thing yet.  Sutter's has been leveled however they are on
some kind of suspension for rules violations.  The Garden City is
greasing many palms now trying to subvert the Stadium Club (George
Hardie's place in Santa Clara) and the Italian Gardens.  It's not a
sure thing yet.
>
>  Again, it's bullshit.  Zoning regulations, phooey!  Do you have any
>  idea what that property is worth?  Measure it in $k per sq. ft.  The
>  parking lot alone is worth a fortune.  Look for condos on that
>  property ... and don't look for card players to be buying them....
>  Boy!  Could I tell you some stories about the Cameo Club....  But,
>  of course, I ain't got the balls!

I've heard all the stories about cheating at the Cameo.  I don't know if
they are true or not.  The one thing that I do know is that the 8-handed
game is absolutely brutal.

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