I can neither agree or disagree. We regularly had 2 games when I was there, but that market has changed a lot in the last few years.

Made my first trip in today from NC and played the daily tournament. Had a blast and the room looks great! All the dealers and staff were great and the structure was one of the best I've seen for a small buy-in daily. Also doesn't hurt that we chopped it.

Was playing 1-3 nl this afternoon and was up about $500 and almost got up to leave but decided to wait....glad I did. Hit the 3pm hot seat for $500!

If no cap on lower stakes games (5/10 and below) isn't feasible at the time, how about something as simple as 'match the highest stack'. If I sit at a 2/5 and someone has 2500 on the table, I can buy in for that much. Thoughts?

I've seen match highest stack 100% and 75% at different casinos.

Match the highest stack sucks for everyone but the biggest sharks in the room.

How deep do you want these games to play? Most of the 2/5 games already play really deep. Uncapped buy ins or match-the-stack will just serve to a) cause the bad players to go broke even more rapidly (terrible long term effect) and b) cause more bad players to rack up and leave when they get deep since they'd rather not play with a pro who just bought in for 4k.

Tldr - the games will just get tougher faster and you'll just end up playing ultra deep stack poker with the top players.

Sounds miserable.

Completely agree, the caps are high enough as it is. IMO if you want a deeper game - move up.

Friday night players at the 5-5 PLO game twice asked if the table wanted to go uncapped. The 2nd time it appeared there was another player they wanted to get in the game but it wasnt clear why that particular player wouldnt play if he could only buy in for $2500.

More importantly, I just want the rules to be constant/consistent. At the end of the day I honestly dont care about button straddles or not or caps or not etc - no particular rule is going to cause me to go back to ML. But I *do* want the game I play Friday to be the same as Sunday to be the same as Wednesday.

Whatever Johnny sets as the rules are fine with me - but they should be fine with the floors and the dealers too.

Not to open the half-rake discussion, but, just wanted to give an update.

Was at a 1/3 table which became 6 handed, I requested, dealer called the floor and got a verbal confirmation. Looks like an improvement from the earlier setup.

Johnny, some of the dealers seem to have a terrible habit of mucking the board before all losing hands have been released. Can you make this stop? One dealer put the board back up upon request, but put the cards out of order, which is part of the reason the board should not be mucked until the hand is over (which is when losing hands are mucked).

Will there be a tournament series at MGM this year? Lived in Biloxi for a while and loved The Million Dollar Heater and Gulf Coast Poker Championship at Beau Rivage.

This x 100. People only want what's best for them short term and never see the bigger picture. Deeper games benefit only better players. If you are a good player, you should be making enough money as it is. Games should be set up to support bad players. If you want to play 500BB deep, move up.

WRT the idea of having 1-2 uncapped low stakes tables, having two mildly variant rules and stakes is the type of thing that isnt generally good for the casino, because it splits the player base into too many small pieces, and you end up with situations arising like a half a game of 5/10 uncapped and a half a game of 1/3 uncapped, and then they both break.

So as far as moving the whole thing to this style, As a player who absolutely loves deepstacked play, I am very happy with the current cap. I think a cap causes people to buy in for the cap. If it were uncapped, the first time i walked in, i prolly wouldve bought in for 300, but with the 500 max i went with it and decided i liked it. Also it takes a bit of time to get to $800+ deep vs someone else at the table, but really i dont know that i want more than a $1600 pot at 1/3 regularly. I know its been said by others, but yeah, if you want to play for more money just move up in stakes, meh.

How are the tournaments here? I'm a cash game player exclusively, but have been intrigued since the $120 buy in is so low. Doesn't really seem like a good use of my time though.

It depends on whether you enjoy tournaments. If you do, then try one and see if it's worth your time.

June promos posted in Bravo. Lucky table promo insane if not a typo.

JUNE PROMOTIONS:
Friday and Saturday from 9AM-3PM- Lucky Table drawing
One table will be drawn at the top of every hour. All players dealt in at that table will win $500.

Q: Does table have to be jackpot eligible?

Can almost guarantee the answer will be yes. They casino is not going to give away their own money.

Here's the jist for those not on bravo:


Promos in June


Monday High Hand/All Day $500/Hour
Tuesday - Fri High Hand/2AM - 10AM $500/Hour
Wed Faces Full/10AM - 10PM $500 Loser/250 Winner/100 Table Share
Wed Top 4 Hands/10AM -10PM. $500/2 Hours
Tue, Thu and Sun Lucky Table Seat/10AM - 10PM $500 Winner/100 Table Share
Fri Lucky Table Seat/10AM - 4PM $500 Winner/100 Table Share
Fri and Sat Lucky Table Seat/9AM - 3PM $500 for everyone dealt at the table

Last two seem to be contradicting. May be the Fri 11, 12, 1, 2 and 3 are worth 500 for all instead of 500 and 100.

Are the top 4 hands splitting the $500 or $500 each?

Also, would you consider changing the over night HH to a lucky table drawing? Like whatever table the seat picked is at, everyone gets $50. Maybe if the table isn't full the winning seat gets an extra $50 for each empty seat?


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500 each. We will consider for July.

Any update on the AC situation? Quite uncomfortable today.

It is WAY too hot in this room. Almost everyone complaining and sweating. Something needs to be done. This is a billion dollar casino. Please help.

It was really hot yesterday too. IMO part of this issue is just going to be a byproduct of the design of the room. Room has how many emergency/outside doors that are really drafty - same reason those tables near the cage got cold in the winter.

I have some experience in commercial HVAC design - obviously not with this room - but with drafts like that there is probably only so much that the facilities guys are going to be able to do. Hopefully they can do *something* though.

I forwarded the above posts to MGM National Harbor via their guest services email address which is public:

GuestServices@MGMNationalHarbor.com

And I received the following responses:

It seems that perhaps the edges and bottoms of the emergency doors and entryways are not properly insulated; maybe they could mount insulation there (strips sold at Home Depot) to keep air flow from entering. That might not completely solve the issue; they may need to build a second door with an accompanying short passageway outside the existing doors so there is not a steady flow of outside air into the poker room. Such a project may not even be possible, depending on county/state fire door regulations; in any case, it would be costly.

If this is not addressed before July-August, when it regularly gets 90+ around here, it is going to stay seriously uncomfortably hot in the poker room, no matter how much they crank the A/C in the rest of the casino.