$90/person upgrade to ocean view room, $300/person for balcony.

yeah, having the nearest ncl port being nyc is inconvenient to most in dc area.
thus probably why they were giving them out. not that many people will redeem.

but now apparently they also have a deal with Royal, whose nearest port is Baltimore.
uber to the port to avoid week long parking fees

You can take Amtrak/MARC train from Union Station in DC to BWI airport for $7-8 and I believe there is a shuttle from there. If that shuttle doesn't still run, it can't be more than a 10-15 über ride.

Also, +1 on the 1k cap at 2/5. 100 BB has always felt a bit shallow to me.

I heard a bad beat story at the table last night I thought I would share. The bad beat jackpot is now around $150K, but last week when it was over $200K, a table had hit the mega bad beat on the turn. One of the players had a straight flush and was holding the bottom 2 cards of the straight flush in his hand. The river card "improved" his hand to a 6 card straight flush but now he no longer used both hole cards to make the best possible hand. No bad beat. Ouch.

Mike, noticed something new on the Bravo list just now: a player with a globe icon next to name where the phone would be for a call-in.

Seems like that would be an Internet signup but I'm not aware of a way to do that here, any idea what that is?

We're testing a new Bravo program. When we've got the bugs out, you'll be able to sign in to your bravo app and register yourself as if you've called in. It will be available for all games when we're ready.

Thanks

Mike

A couple observations so far, and this could all be on Bravo to fix, especially the second item:

You can currently only sign up for games that show an active waiting list, e.g. if no one is waiting for 2/5 then there doesn't seem to be a way to sign up for 2/5.

Sign-up buttons are available on the website but not on the mobile app.

Is there a Holiday Inn or Crowne Plaza within the vicinity of Maryland Live?

Thanks,

Larry

Mike, I used the Bravo website to sign up for games today and it worked as expected. Only feedback is there's no option to receive the seat ready text when signing up through website

You still have to checkin first like a callin tho. So that feature might never be available

Ohhh I didn't check in because I was top of the list when I arrived but had a cool globe

So checkin and have them do the text thing prob, noice

when do the streak bonuses expire?

End of the year IIRC

Can confirm; expires 12/31/2016

Yep, I looked into this too, but by the time I got to Union Station from my hotel, I was going to spend an extra 30-45 minutes for the trip. Others may disagree but I'd rather spend the extra $20 (less if I cab to Union Station, no good Metro) and have the extra time playing.

On the cap, I like and am used to deepstack games, so feel pretty strongly about this. One reason I like Sugarhouse in Philly.

Disappointed with an unusually weak floor yesterday.

A young-ish girl came to the table with half a beer in her hand into seat 7 and made a couple odd plays. Most recently she shoved ~$200 into a $10 pot pre (over a UTG raise to $7) and when UTG folded AJ face up she turned up AT. Guy in seat 1 turns to his neighbor and says "You know she's not leaving with any of those chip" and apparently was a bit too loud and she heard him.

Maybe 20 minutes later she's making a couple comments about how he shouldn't say stuff like that and she gets up from the table for a bit. Maybe another 30 minutes later she's back at the table sitting behind her missed blind button and nursing another beer and quietly choking back tears. New dealer comes in asks if she's okay, girl says a couple things to seat 1 dealer is like "Okay that's enough" and it quiets down for a few minutes.

Gets to her blind and girl comes back in, now full out crying and starts yelling at seat 1. Dealer calls floor who comes over with a deer in the headlights look. As dealer is trying to explain to floor "She's upset with seat 1 who hasn't said anything to her since I've been here but I don't know what he said before I got here" a "helpful" reg in seat 6 starts interrupting saying "Seat 1 should apologize. He did say that stuff. You're not explaining it right"

The useless floor keeps standing there like he's hoping that someone else will fix it for him. Girl racks up and leave, "helpful" in seat 6 keeps at it with the dealer who is herself upset and ask the floor to do something about the guy. Floor seems to be really interested in his shoes or something. I'm feeling bad for the dealer who's the one person who really has no good options here and tell "helpful" that he needs to stfu when dealer is trying to talk to the floor and "helpful" leaves too.

Floor could have fixed everything from the start by showing a bit of authority. Floor should have taken (apparently drunk) girl away from the table to talk. Floor has no excuse for not having his dealer's back and telling helpful to stfu which I've seen plenty of other floors do in similar spots.

I'm happy with the majority of the dealer at the room and to that point had pretty much always been happy with the floors but this guy is a waste of a suit.

Also, girl needs to not be so sensitive. Remark wasn't even that bad.

Yeah she's either someone not suited to playing the game or had been too friendly with Mr Budweiser. Probably both.

This doesn't have much to do with MDL but I'm sick of seeing regs treat new players poorly, or making comments that they think are quiet enough to keep to themselves...

And people wonder why there are so few women in poker, and aside from gender why there are fewer and fewer new players in poker.

This is no way to treat a novice player, regardless of their age, gender, etc, etc. Someone at the table should have stuck up for the new player when it was clear that she was not handling it well. If a reg makes a comment about a new player like this and they hear and are upset, you guys should needle the reg. "Oh, like you're God's gift to poker, Joe? A regular Doyle Brunson over there... Don't worry [new player], he's not leaving with any of his chips! I hope you get them."

Not only did this new player leave, she probably won't come back because nobody at the table made it fun for her, and in fact someone went beyond that and make it a bad experience. So instead, she'll play blackjack or roulette or something.

Yeah I thought about this too. It wasn't clear at all that she was a novice player. I think it more likely that she was a drunk player and thus oversensitive. She didn't react at all at the time of the comment. It wasn't even clear she'd heard until several minutes later. She just did this slow burn over there.

Regardless of whether or not someone could/should have stood up for her Mr Helpful isn't doing anyone any good when he starts interrupting the dealer as she's trying to explain the situation to the useless supervisor.

Honestly at the time of the comment I didn't think she'd heard and my intention was to quietly tell him not to say stuff like that at the table when she wasn't around.

I encountered a similarly clueless floorman upstairs at around 1:30 this morning. Could have been the same guy.

I got sent upstairs for 2-5 and I was about to sit when this floor guy stopped me. He said "hold on, a guy wants to switch from another table" and he told a guy at the next table over that he could have the seat. So I end up waiting longer than I have to. I noticed the chip stacks on this other table and figured it was a 1-2 game. So I said "Isn't this 1-2?" and the floor guy replied "oh yeah, you're right?" I just rolled my eyes and took the 2-5 seat.


He's the WOAT.

That whole girl crying situation sounds hilarious. On the one hand, seat 1 is an idiot and would get a needle/berate from me, but someone crying/chugging beers to kill the pain from the comment is also pretty absurd.

And the end of the day though, always siding with the girl. Maybe she drank too much but when sober she might be a great person. Seat 1 is an ass hat sober or not.

$500 streak bonus today if you've held streak since 2013

Crying,chugging beers,playing poker. Sounds like my perfect woman

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Heads up for Mike, the armrests on table 22 between the 4 and 7 seats is getting very worn out.


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Thank you. Appreciate it

Mike