I'm wondering what percentage of the field are 2 + 2ers? Any idea?

Less than 10% I'd guess. There are lots o fish at the table.

Edit: at the 1/2 at least.

Does anyone think Omaha Hi/lo will go tomorrow-Sunday, Sept. 19th?

when has it ran in the past
your reffering to PLO Hi/Lo
iv seen limit almost everytime iv gone

I am speaking of Limit Omaha hi/lo. I plan to check it out today. (SUN)

Had this pleasant experience on Friday--

I was sitting in the 5/5 PLO when another player in the game suggested that we switch to half PLO/8. Everyone at the table liked that idea, and the dealer quickly called the floor over. The floor tells us that we can't switch the game, because there are people waiting to play in this game on the list.

Player A: They will probably want to play PLO/8 too.
Floor: No.
Playber B: The guys on the list are probably at the track or in the casino and won't even show.
Floor: No.
Player C: Let's just ask the new players when they sit down, and if they say no, we'll switch back.
Floor: No.
Me: Why are you more concerned with people on the list than the people who are paying time?
Floor: PLO/8 would be slower anyway. And hard for the dealers. You're not switching the game.

Nice . . .

Michael

Made my 7th or so trip to CT yesterday. On my first trip I lost $150 at a 2/5, but wasn't too upset because it was my first time playing live. Since I have walked each time with between $200-$350 sitting at a 1/2. Showed up yesterday at 1215, no line, went and ate, and got back up there at about 1235 and the line had built pretty good. It will be interesting to see what happens next weekend when it is 24/7.

I have found at the 1/2 table there is always 2-3 people sitting with $100-$150 and they eventually get bored and push with a marginal hand at best. All you have to do is wait and capitalize on these people. You also have to be willing to lay down big hands based on who you are playing against.
Ex. yesterday I made it $6 from 2 behind button with Queens, Button made it $15, Small Blind made it $50 (he hadnt played very many hands at all, and rarely raised preflop), BB called the $50 (also a pretty tight player). With two callers I figured at least one had AK, but more likely one had AA or KK. I dumped my queens and at the showdown the SB had AA and the BB had suited Ace Air.

Does anyone know if any CT reps read this thread? I had two things I wanted to suggest to management on my last trip and forgot.

1) Remind dealers not to talk about the board while a hand is in progress and not to allow players to talk about the board. Had a situation where there was a str8 on board with a 3 flush and players are all chiming in and the dealer as well with - "possible flush", "possible str8 flush", "str8 on board" while players are still waiting to act on a river bet.

2) Massage girls. For weekends at least. Dunno why casinos don't always have this as it can't cost them anything and it's a benefit to the players.

I've been lurking here for the past year and really appreciate all the input folks have provided about Charles Town. I spent last Friday playing cards and thought I'd post a trip report.

My friend and I left from Falls Church, VA around 1pm and took the toll road out to Leesburg, then route 7 to route 9 and parked in the East Garage. There was no traffic and we got to the card room around 2:15pm and waited about 15 minutes for a new 1-2 table to open up. There were about 25 people milling around waiting for tables.

We got sent to table #25, second from the end on the right (near the bathroom). Played from 2:15 pm until midnight. I'd say the dealers were very good. Only had one incident where the dealer started to push the chips to the wrong player until someone else pointed out the mistake. One dealer had a good suggestion for what to do about all the people squeezing between the pillars and the chairs. Just put another chair or table in between the two chairs next to the pillar. Makes it pretty much impossible to get by.

We also had one situation where a guy sits down and decides to wait for the button. While he's waiting a new dealer comes and everyone has to post their $6. He says he doesn't have to pay because he hasn't played any hands. Dealer says he's paying to play future hands. Anyway, the dealer calls for a manager, we wait five minutes and the ruling is he has to pay.

I know this is a sore point with some of you, but I really like to eat while playing. We found the food at the food court to be very good and reasonably priced. As my friend and I were leaving to eat, she says something about "3rd man walking" and tells us we only have 1/2 an hour. Does anyone know what this means?

Players were much tighter at this table than they were my first visit two weeks ago. I'd say people limped into the pots about 60% of the time. I kept waiting for someone to start punishing the limpers, but it never happened. As a result we got to play lots of connected, suited hands.

Here's one hand I played. I limped with 89 Bet was $7 with four callers. The flop came 6x, 7x, 10x. Pretty hard to screw up this hand. Villain makes it 20, I make it 60 and it goes fold, fold and villain calls. Pot is about $150. Turn is 2x. Villain checks (I have him on A, 10) and I bet $100 and villain calls. River is a Kx (6,7,10,2,K-no flush draw) I obviously wanted to go all in, but putting him on A, 10, I just didn't think he was that strong so I bet another $100 (I had another $150 behind). Villain calls and I table the nuts. A few hands earlier the villain had asked if I was from Alabama (I was wearing a red Univ. of AL sweatshirt), and I replied, only by marriage. His response, "What's his name." ha ha.

Had the same thing at my table minus the player protest so at least the ruling is consistent.

Third man walking means that if you're the 3rd person to get be away from the table they'll pull your chips and put another player in the seat if you don't return promptly. I'm not sure how long you have but it's supposed to be less than 30 minutes. I think 15?

In a pot raked game they'll usually pickup a player's chips if he's gone for over an hour (2 dealer changes). The first dealer who comes in an finds an empty seat w/chips will give him an absent button and the next dealer will give him a 2nd absent button and the 3rd dealer will call the floor to remove the chips. They get counted and bagged and the player can claim them when he returns.

At CT and other time charge games they actually take time from the player when he's absent. I'm not sure how long they give you to return if you're the 1st or 2nd person to leave the table but someone here made reference to paying $18 in time when they went to get dinner.

Everytime I have played at CT, anyone seated when they make a dealer change has to pay the time charge.

With regards to leaving for a dinner break, this has happened at my tables a few times. It was explained to me by a floor person that if you are not there when a dealer change happens, the dealer will put an "absent" button at your seat. If you have two "absent" buttons and there is another dealer change, they will then bag up your chips and give your seat away. So you should roughly have an hour.

As an alternative, I was told that if you tell the floor you are leaving for dinner, they will bag your chips and you will be put on the top of the wait list (if there is one) and you don't pay the time charge while you are away. Just something to keep in mind.

When players are getting ready to go on break I like to point out the dinner break list to any semi-competent player while explaining to any really horrid player that they can simply leave there chips there and hurry back.

Forgive me for being a n00b, but do other poker rooms in the U.S. really have this??

If so, where

I play on saturday at 10/20 for most of the day. The table was actually pretty tight and I am not sure it was expoitable long term. There was one gentleman that kept crying his wife recently passed away. RIP, he was very nice. There were also two leather face 50 year old woman wearing canadian tuxedos that were absolutely obnoxious. All they did was berate those players that were bad, no idea why anyone would do this.....I doubled up my 400 but i think efforts would be better focused at 2/5. Its fun playing limit but I just found that the people were untolerable.

Lots of places do. V and others in Vegas. Borg has em in the high stakes room only I believe, Trop had them way back when I played there. It's not free. I think in AC the standard was $20 for 15 min and in Vegas it's $2/min. Seated massage at the table like you see the guys getting at the WSOP.