Blue Gums Hotel
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:12 pm
A reasonable venue with relatively cheap meals and friendly enough staff. With the Monday night tournament being held in the front bar, the room for meals is quite restricted but there is plenty of space for the poker tables to hold the usual 50 odd players that turn up to play.
Be wary when ordering meals/drinks in order to obtain stamps for your poker passports though. Should you order multiple items on one order, you will only be given a maximum of 3 stamps on a card, regardless of what you've ordered.
When ordering meals, definately make an effort to order just the meal and then purchase any drinks seperately afterwards to get maximum value out of your purchase for stamps. Also make sure to ask the price of beverages before ordering as anything under $5 and you'll only get 1 stamp period. Also buy a single drink at a time in order to get maximum value out of your money for stamps as two pints bought at the same time will only get you 3 stamps. Whilst this pedantic method of obtaining the stamps is quite annoying, particularly if it's your turn to buy a round, the venue just doesn't 'get it'.
USUAL TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Darren
FAVOURITE SAYING: "Is anybody listening to me??"
Be wary when ordering meals/drinks in order to obtain stamps for your poker passports though. Should you order multiple items on one order, you will only be given a maximum of 3 stamps on a card, regardless of what you've ordered.
When ordering meals, definately make an effort to order just the meal and then purchase any drinks seperately afterwards to get maximum value out of your purchase for stamps. Also make sure to ask the price of beverages before ordering as anything under $5 and you'll only get 1 stamp period. Also buy a single drink at a time in order to get maximum value out of your money for stamps as two pints bought at the same time will only get you 3 stamps. Whilst this pedantic method of obtaining the stamps is quite annoying, particularly if it's your turn to buy a round, the venue just doesn't 'get it'.
USUAL TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR: Darren
FAVOURITE SAYING: "Is anybody listening to me??"