I only played $1/$2 and $2/$5 NL Hold Em while at The Village club. The games were very loose (typical California wild poker) and extremely profitable! My favorite part of The Village club was definitely the in-house restaurant. They had a wide variety of food and they brought it right to your table. I am not talking a greasy sandwich and fries, I had shrimp fried rice and it was spectacular. I live in Vegas and this is still to this day one of my favorite poker rooms!
This room has to be the loudest, most cramped room I have ever been in. Any surface of the floor big enough to hold a table, does, The fact that you have to put 11 chairs AROUND the table doesn't seem to stop the management of the Village Club Poker room from cramming them in there, literally back to back. God forbid if the guy on the table right behind you weighs in at over 300 pounds (and don't think THAT won't happen at the Village) you literally are pinned in between your seat back and the edge of your table. Add to this the pai gow players who have learned that, in order to increase their odds, they must SLAM!! their tiles, or dominoes, or dice or whatever on the table making everybody in the place jump. The Village is divided into two rooms, one more cramped than the next. I was ushered into the back room and had to sit at a table with high backed bar stools. Precarious to say the least. After a few orbits I was taken to "the main game" in the front room and shown to my seat wherein I got "pinned" for the next 45 minutes and couldn't get out. They serve food and beverages, neither of which you can pay with chips and both of which take forever to get to you. Keep a grip on your expectations in the food department because it is low on quality too, particularly compared to other rooms in California like the Hawaiian Gardens and Oceans 11. Also a little pricey I thought. Unless you are in that part of town, the room is hard to get to. It's in Chula Vista, somewhat south of San Diego, past the stadium, past the exit for Coronado. If you see a sign that says "Bienvenidos a Mexico" you over shot it. Chula Vista, by the way, means "nice view." Go figure. If you are in the San Diego area and you MUST play some poker, I would recommend the Village over the Palomar, but not by much. Oh, and bring lots of cash because everybody plays the hell out of their hands. Pocket 8s? All in, baby!
