I love playing stud. It is my 2nd favorite game of choice. And I'm not THAT old

It is actually chilly in here today!

I played Foxwoods today for this very reason. Tired of sitting at the MS tables with three regs taking up spots at the table while they walk around or play craps or slots or whatever they do.......dealers/floor hardly ever enforce the time limits or "3rd man walking" rule over there......if playing on the weekdays its often 6/7 handed recently.....and now they are limiting the table to 9 players. Foxwoods just seems to draw MORE players.

Awesome! Sounds like I need to convince the girlfriend I need to start hitting up the 'Woods on Friday nights instead of spending time with her....

I think it is more of a factor of being a tournament player (like many who post in that forum) and a regular cash player. A cash player like yourself is going to be recognized over time as having a clue. In a low stakes tournament, the odds of actually running into someone who recognizes you is pretty low.

That said, I've found just being myself is the easiest to do. Although I avoid wearing green (I got carsick as a child and puked in my green dad's car and associate green with puking. On the bright side, my parents stopped smoking in car because I was puky).

I don't know if everyone has heard but Rudy died last week. He was a Foxwoods reg, played 1/2 and was often seen smoking out in the vestibule. RIP Rudy

whats the good hotels/motels to stay that are close to the woods? gonna be up a couple days - dont want a total dump, but rather not pay for mgm

Which is exactly the point I wish to make. I feel like I need to apologize for being so vehement about defending my conduct at the table, but it is hard to restrain myself when someone who I have never met or associated with calls me out anonymously on a forum for doing something that I just do naturally and integrate into a part of my game and image.

Check out the Days Inn in Mystic. It's only 14 minutes from Foxwoods, and if you use hotels.com its like $80 on a weekend. Not sure for weekday cause I get free rooms at MGM, but on weekends I stay at the Days Inn. Pretty affordable I think.

waiting for your money

hopefully you've improved since your last strat post

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...raight-848682/

thanks ill check it out. planning on staying during the week.

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Stop @ any CT travel center, or even McDounlds & pick up the Green Book of Motel discounts, I've used them, the coupons & saved @ least $25 per nite.

Stud FTW and I'm 26

What's it like having a green dad?

Hey regs! I'm new to Foxwoods, just went on Saturday for the first time and had some questions I hope you can answer!!!

1. Is there a way to get to the poker room without walking through smoking areas? I felt like I was a smoker again when I woke up Sunday morning.

2. Tipping. I tipped $1 every pot I won (playing 1/2 NLHE if that matters) because I thought I read that as standard but noticed wide variation in others from no tipping to tipping half dollars to $2. Also if you win a tiny pot is tipping necessary (4 limpers bet and take it down for example.

3. Is there much difference between the 1/2 and 2/5 games?

4. Is there anywhere to walk or exercise that you would recommend to take a break in the middle of a marathon session.

5. I took the bus down from Springfield MA. If I wanted to get a nearby room that was cheaper than staying on site are there any local shuttle buses or would I have to find a cab.


Thx for your help and time. I'll be seeing you often on the weekends with such limited online possibilities.

1. Park in jlot and walk directly into the poker room. This means that you drive by all of the other entrances as if you were driving to the Pequot Museum or Two Trees Inn

2. I'll probably seem like a dickhead for this but I almost never tip at Foxwoods. At Mohegan I tip a lot because I feel like (most of) the dealers really seem to appreciate it more and they really remember when you do something extra generous. At Foxwoods there are certain dealers that I would really love to be generous to, but the pooled tips thing really turns me off. No way will I support that other dickhead who doesn't want to put a little effort into his job so he can make the game run more smoothly. So until they get to keep their own (which doesn't seem to be favorable), that's what you'll expect from me.

3. I haven't played 1/2 too often at FW but I think 2/5 is about 350 times better. Win with a set in 1/2 and make $8, or win with a set in 2/5 and make 800?

4. I think your best bet is to walk outside towards Jlot. There's a sidewalk that wraps around towards the front of the Hard Rock and if you walk back and forth a few times it could be sufficient.

5. Cabs are 'spensive.

That would be 100 times better

1. I have no idea where you bus dropped you off, but when I go I park in the Rainmaker garage. From there you walk through hallways straight to the stairs by the waterfall and have minimum smoke encounters.

2. Tip whatever you feel comfortable doing, not what you see other doing. Personally I don't tip if the post is small or there wasn't a flop - for the most part. Then I tip $1 for most pots won, maybe $2 or more if the pot is huge.

3. Yes, there's usually 4 times as many 1/2 tables as 2/5 tables running, which seems to means there's about 4 times as many clueless people playing 1/2. Honestly it all depends on your table. A soft 2/5 table can be easier to win than a hard 1/2 table but a hard 2/5 table is MUCH harder than a hard 1/2 table.

4. I walk outside the doors in the poker room by the old tournament/new stud area and just walk out there for a while, plenty of sidewalks and paths. Then you can go back in through the smoker's entrance.

The only reason I didn't is because I figured you and your buddies for Regs and it was to my personal benefit to listen for obvious reasons since I will be playing up there a bunch. If you didn't leave immediately after getting stacked I would have said something. Obviously we all need to talk poker with other players who's games we respect, but doing it at the tables is terrible, and assuming you are a professional you should realize this. As for putting a name to my post, I am the guy who calls off 200 bbs with flush draws.

But this just serves to illustrate my point, I can talk strategy time and again with someone who I hadn't seen in ages and who I never talk to outside of the table, and the net result is you calling off your stack as a 76/24 underdog with 40% pot odds with your newfound "information".

Apparently, what I wish to accomplish is working if I can project an image to others that allows them to make calls I usually only see at a 1/2 game. I left afterwards because I was steaming and I did not want to tap the tank, allowing the other people at the table to benefit from the fish to my left.

ETA: I am not usually this harsh. I also usually do not get criticized by strangers in all caps on a forum where over half the people posting know me in person.

If the Asian guy puts the rest in, which I was almost sure he was, I'm getting the right price. I was pretty certain you had the goods. Don't see how this is so hard. Obviously I was wrong, he folded kk with half his stack in the middle and I get lucky. I was criticizing you and whoever your friend is, as well as making a PSA to other people who do this, not just you so relax. I have played a ton of live poker and I have never heard 2 pros talk strat in that much detail at a table and it was unbelievabley tilting so yea I used caps, whatever. Anyways, didn't mean to get in to some internet missing match, so sorry if I came off like a dick, and Gl at the tables. In Florida for the week, but will be seeing lots of you once I get home, so you have all the opportunity in the world to take this fishes money.

Consider this internet shoving match put behind us, but I still implore you to refrain from calling others out in a public forum, especially when it comes down to personal conduct at a table that is a decided choice. Talking strategy at a table puts a target squarely on my back, and people do come after me as a result with regularity--the true fish want the chance to trump the live pro in a hand and others such as yourself go on tilt for reasons I still cannot understand.

So yeah, this is over as far as I can see it, but please do not do it again. I didn't criticize your style of play openly when you stacked me as an underdog, so you have no right to criticize mine. Although I will not discourage you from getting tilted by my conduct in the future.

this! so much easier to play massive pots at 2/5... many more people willing to play for stacks compared to the 1/2 nut peddlers