Also I would love to learn more, my husband is almost a pro, he plays every day but he is not very patience with me.
I realized that for now my biggest problem is when I raised pre flop and when the flop comes and I don't hit anything I 'm still doing a continuation bet .....

What is the difference between foxwoods and mohegan? is foxwoods better?

Ohh, I forgot to say my real name is Liisa, and yes it is spelled that way. Mom was Finnish, Dad was Finnish and Swedish. Online, I am BlondeeWon (wishful thinkin!!) -- just so you know who you are stealin money from.....

Personal opinion.

Mohegan Sun Advantages

Nicer looking room
More comfortable chairs
More personable dealers on average
Faster dealers on average

Foxwoods Advantages

More knowledgeable floors and management
More games going
More variety of games
Better comps

If you're looking to play 1/2 cash games, my choice would be MS. You have a nice number of games to choose from. I don't play limit anymore, but I suspect the same is true at low stakes limit too. However, if you want play 2/5 NL, stud or any other game, you're pretty much going to play at Foxwoods. While MS might get 2-3 2/5 games going at best, Foxwoods will have 8-10 going at the same time. SNGs will go off regularly at Foxwoods while you could be in for quite a wait at MS.

Hope that answers your question.

And Foxwoods has cupholders built into the tables and closer bathrooms.

Let's not forget the important stuff!

+1

Mohegan is also a lot less smoky than Foxwoods, which to me is a big plus.

They also have cupholders built into the tables at Mohegan, and I would say the average walk to the bathroom is probably shorter at Mohegan for cash games than at Foxwoods, but longer for tournaments, but it obviously all depends on where you're seated in both rooms.

They do? I haven't been there for over a year, they must have got new tabletops. Well, yay! Also, did the move the poker room, cash? At Foxwoods, I can be literally 15ft frm the restroom door. At the Sun, it was like, five minutes away.

Tables without cupholders tilt me hard. I think I was the first person to destroy a table at the Aria when I spilled my diet coke all over the center like 3 days after they opened lol.

Dunno? When I was living out east I went to Mohegan like 95% of the time just because it's a much better room for 1/2 imo. At Mohegan they had the tourneys on the right side of the room as you walked in, & the bathroom on the left...I couldn't imagine it taking more than 2 mins to walk from one end of the poker room to the other, though, even at a leisurely speed.

At Foxwoods I thought that area that's tucked in to the left by the bathrooms when you come downstairs from the asian gaming was mostly for sit & go type stuff, but I could be entirely mistaken.

When I was at Aria last Friday night a guy spilled his beer all over the table. They just toweled it up & were good to go. I guess they learned from your mistakes

Do they not have side tables? O_o

They do...but do you want to be the 1 to tell the drunk fish to move their drink somewhere where they have less easy access to it & might forget to keep drinking it?

thank you for the reply!!!

Yup that's me! I just started it. If you have Skype or MSN you should PM me your info. I'm always up for RUSH strategy discussion. I've been switching up styles to see what works best. There's a lot of strategic elements in RUSH that you just don't find in other games which is part of the reason I like it. I'm certainly never bored playing it!

Ah, we may be getting close to solving the all-important bathroom-location mystery!! How long since you've been to either venue? It was..... last summer, I think that I was at Mohegan. Last week for Foxwoods.


(oh yeah - and what the he--eck is "asian gaming?" Really, I don't do a thing in a casino but play poker.)

I was living in MA from May '10 to February, and was a regular at Mohegan, and went to Foxwoods 3 or 4 times.

Asian gaming is the really smoky area by the main stairs to go to the poker room. One can avoid it by going through the other entrance, though. The bowl shaped configuration of the Foxwoods poker room allows large amounts of smoke to waft down on you if you are at one of the center tables.

Huh, so they have changed the tables at Mohegan. I wonder if they built a new restrooom or moved the whole shebang? I'll have to run out there.

I was really upset when they moved all the lower stakes cash out of the smoke-free area at Foxwoods. We've all complained about the smoke. If you get over by the wall at either end it's right by the restrooms. I won't play at a center table.

What?

The whole bottom floor remains non-smoking where all the cash games are played. The tournament area is next to the Asian games, so some smoke could drift over, although casinos are know for exchanging air every couple of minutes. In fact before the poker room was moved downstairs, the downstairs was the non-smoking section of Foxwoods.

I was just there Sunday (jpsychlady can confirm) and the cash games were all in a non-smoking area.

I believe what she's referring to is an area where a lot of smoke permeates, which is the center bowl area (the part with the higher ceiling) because it drifts down. She's not saying that people can actually smoke in the poker room, just that it is very present & noticeable, especially for those who strongly dislike cigarette smoke.

My bad. I grew up with two parents smoking, so I don't notice it unless someone is smoking directly in front of me.

If they had any money, they could solve the problem by having the air pressure of the poker room slightly higher than Asian room and have it stay out. But that's the engineer in me talking.

lol @ asian room

Right. That low-ceiling area you got to from the escalator from the non-smoking area of the slotmachines. The way the ventilation worked, it was always smoke-free. Quiet.

sigh

Right? That's what I told the mealy-mouth floor person who said, "There's nothing we can do about it." I hate it when people treat me like I'm stupid.

haha, glad to see they started this forum! I was watching the thread in ATF for a while, and then kinda forgot about it until now!

Anyway, I'm Andi, I live in San Diego, and yes, i am a skydiver. I have a degree in Aeronautical engineering that i don't use, a masters in electrical engineering that i also don't use, and I spent 10 years in the military. Being currently jobless, I have plenty of time to play poker while mooching off my loving husband, who has a great job. I'm 35, so a bit on the older end of the online spectrum, i'd guess.

As for poker, I started becoming interested about 2 years ago, when some friends asked me to play and i realized how BAD i was, and how fascinating the game was to a math geek like me. So being a geek, i immediately hopped online, downloaded pokerstars, and started playing, while searching the web for forums about poker. Of course, I found 2p2.

I donked around online for a while, nursing a $50 bankroll in the penny NLHE games, and learned enough to be break even at best. When I first ventured out into the local indian casinos, i fell in love with live poker. For some reason, I find it way easier to concentrate when I play live. Case in point, i'm currently on the bubble of a 4.40 180-man SnG at stars, and yet i'm posting here...

Anyway, fast foward to April of 2010, where i somehow luckboxed my way into winning a WSOP ME satellite at a local place. That's when i decided to work on my tournament game, and i've kind of transitioned from cash to tournaments since then.

Needless to say, the ME was the experience of a lifetime, and of course showed me how much i still have to learn. I busted out at about 10 pm on day 2, after being dealt an absolutely brutal table draw (oh hai, you're at the orange section feature table with a former POY, last year november niner, and some hot young internet pros! have fun, donkey!)

Good to meet you all, and if you watch the section of last year's ME coverage and you see them talking to Tom Schneider about how he has his wife recorded on his phone...you'll see me laughing in the background! At least I still had chips at that point =/

Hello everyone! At first I thought it was goofy to have a women's forum but so far I've enjoyed reading the posts.

I'm in the "older" group (over 39 but that's all I'll say on that ). Started playing in 2000 in Oregon, now live in AZ. Married to a poker pro - not one you'd know unless you live in AZ because he refuses to travel - but his game allowed me to quit my engineering job after our kids were born and now I play about 30 hours a week live in AZ. Mostly LHE but I'm considering a move to the spread limit games they have here. When I first started playing I played almost exclusively live MTTs but I'm so out of the NLHE groove I don't want to leave the comfort of my high-variance limit existence.

Looking forward to getting to know you all

Hi!

First things first, despite the name, I'm actually a woman; my name is Nicole. I'm 29 and I've recently moved from Vermont to Texas. I've been creepin' on 2+2 for a while, and I thought this forum would be a great place to make an introduction and move forward with my poker career. I've been semi-grinding small stakes SNGs for the past year and a half to see how much I like it. Turns out quite a bit. I'm planning to branch out a little and try some new stuff, and I look forward to seeing how this forum progresses.