OutSyder

It's an electronic poker table and all actions are done via the touch screen which makes up the table top. You can view your cards and then you are presented with call, bet, raise or fold options. Not really many rules to remember as its all laid out in front of you. I don't think anyone would be aanoyed at newbies joining so sign up and have fun!

17 minutes ago, KillerSnake said:

$50 into the prize pool, that leaves only $10 worth of chips to play with.  Not much of game to me.

 

Or is this one those places that give you $10K face value of playing chips and then if you win you get 50% of the pool?

 

What are the starting Blinds? Straddles? 7-2, Stand up or Nit button? PLO Bomb pots? How far into the game before the level of Blinds kick in? Is this $5-$10, $10-$20? Or $1-$2?

 

Its a tournament so there are no straddles. Just off the Regal yesterday and our tournaments started at 12 noon on sea days with signup at 11:00 am. 5,000 in tourney chips and blinds go up every 15 minutes. The start times for the tournaments were always posted in the patter but they didn't mention there was a signup at 11 so there was a lot of confused people who showed up at 11:55 only to find out the tournament was full.

How is the snorkelling from the beach?

We are going in February and we have booked with EZ air flying in a day early. Since we are flying out of YVR we were able to book direct flights. Would it be an option for you to fly out of YVR?

Moorea and Bora Bora.

8 minutes ago, shpur said:

I’d contact princess. I saw on this blog yesterday that it was fixed 

It's not fixed. I'm on the March 6th sailing and yesterday we got our notification that we will not go to Princess Cays as well our revised itinerary for the remaining ports.

5 hours ago, goneall said:

This was just posted on the TA roll call suggesting the generator problems have been fixed.  Any other news or updates from folks on the more recent cruise?

 

 

I really hope that's true about the generator but I wouldn't want to place a bet on it.

I was surprised this morning that I had a voicemail from Princess regarding the email I sent about this subject. The caller told me that the price for water was back to its previous cost and she also spoke to the other two points I had in my email.

I wish that I had been available to answer the call and thank her for the phone call. It has mostly restored my faith in Princess.

I too have sent an email

Vegas has plenty.

Thanks for that Capt Obvious

Did you happen to notice if they had any poker tournaments?

Its not a glitch. I'm pretty sure its part of the sail & play promotion

I hope this cruise is everything you have hope for and more!

Have a great cruise.

I believe it was in 2003 when we did Hawaii, French polynesia, Hawaii b2b cruise aboard Dawn Princess. Each leg was 12 nights. After leaving the Hawaiin islands its a 2 day sail to Christmas Island and then 2 more to Bora Bora. Flying to and from Hawaii is much more affordable than flying to Tahiti. I really wish they would bring this cruise back.

In all my Princess cruises (19) I have never missed Princess Cays when we were scheduled to stop there. I have however missed St Kitts due to it being to windy and that's not a tender port.

Just the luck of the draw I think.

Please stop throwing the word "discrimination" out there. Its not discrimination. Don't buy the Princess product if it doesn't agree with you. Its as simple as that

Nope, not interested at all

PokerPro is now just the $1/$2 No Limit cash games. It was probably a money thing - tieing up the table for the length of the tournament..

On the Emerald Princess a while back they would occasionally hold tournaments. They were always full and several people on the wait list. We would constantly ask for more tournies and were told no, its 1-2 no limit now. The table sat empty the entire time. I could never understand that.

I wish Princess would offer more Hawaii - Tahiti - Hawaii cruises. We did it as a 24 night B2B in 2003 and it our most memorable cruise ever.

I don't have a lot of faith that these contests are or have been awarded fairly.

Very much up to the manager and his team as to what the tournament schedule will be. On my last cruise on the Emerald, the casino host would rather see the table sit empty waiting for 1-2 NL than to run more than one tourney a day. Tournies were always full with a waiting list and people asking for a second tourney and the casino host steadfastly refused. On that sailing it was rare that there was anyone playing 1-2 NL.

In his noon announcement, Captain Stenzel announced that the thruster issue had been fixed and all six thrusters are operational. Good news!

Thanks so much for taking the time to keep those of us on the next cruise updated. I really appreciate it.

We froze are as off for 20 days during Nov./Dec.Emerald sucks!

Awesome to have your positive attitude back Tom!

At any rate, I can not remember the pools on Princess being anything but cold. I really wish that they would keep them a bit warmer

Bavarian night is my favorite and I don't eat most of the stuff. But, I love spaetzle, red cabbage and the sauce/gravy from the goulash which goes on top of the spaetzle. There are lots of different kinds of schnitzel/sausage; I don't eat any of that. I believe they also carve a ham on that night too.

 

And of course black forest cake and assorted rolls; twists and others.

Thats exactly what I eat on Bavarian night. It's the one meal I really look forward to

I've been to Jamaica once and that was plenty. I'll never ever go there again