Anybody know what the "reduced rake specials, exciting giveaways and more" will be next weekend?

this means that there was already a straight flush in the time period, or the dealer was an idiot. probably the former.

Details of 1 yr Celebration

Saturday

At 10 AM first 75 players in the room will receive a 1 year anniversary T-shirt

Prize drawings every hour from 11am until 10pm –Duffle bags, chip sets, etc.

T-shirts will be given out throughout the day

7pm -Drawing for a pair of Howie Mandel Tickets

All Limit Hold’em 3-6 and above will receive half rake from 10am to Midnight

2-5 NL maximum rake of $3.00 10am to midnight


Sunday

At 10 AM first 75 players in the room will receive a 1 year anniversary T-shirt

Prize drawings every hour from 11am until 10pm –Duffle bags, chip sets, etc.

7PM -Drawing for Wednesday Guaranteed tournament entry

Seven Card Stud limits 5-10 and 10-20 will receive half rake from 10am to midnight

1-2 NL maximum rake of $3.00 10am to midnight

Sorry one my dealers gave you bad information....Here is the most recent HHJP info:

Mohegan Sun’s High Hand Jackpot

High Hand Collection Periods & Qualifying Periods
Sunday – Friday

10am-1pm 2pm-5pm 6pm-9pm 10pm-1am 2am-5am 5am-9am

Saturday

5am-9am 10am-1pm 2pm-5pm



Example: The collection for the 1PM Jackpot will occur from the hours of 10am-1pm. After 1PM the amount of the Jackpot shall be announced. The Jackpot will be awarded after 1PM to the highest hand which meets all Jackpot qualifications between the hours of 10AM & 1PM.

Jackpots may be cancelled during holidays and other special events.

The following are the real money (non-tournament), games that qualify for the High Hand Jackpot:

Texas Hold’em limits: 2-4, 3-6, 4-8, 5-10, 6-12, 9-18, & 10-20
No Limit Texas Hold’em: 1-2, 2-5
Seven card Stud (High Only): 1-3, 1-5, 5-10, & 10-20


Conditions applicable to Mohegan Sun’s High Hand Jackpot
• Jackpot Contribution will be collected only if the hand is dealt on a Jackpot Table to 5 or more players and rake is collected from the hand.
• The Jackpot Contribution is collected from the pot as soon as the pot reaches $20.00
• Jackpot contribution is collected only once during the hand and the value of the jackpot contribution is $1.00.
• The jackpot contribution collected on any jackpot table shall be clearly displayed on the table sign.
• 100 % of these contributions are added to the Jackpot until the close of that particular Jackpot period. The total amount of the Jackpot will be awarded to the high hand(s) for that particular Jackpot period.

To Qualify for the High Hand Jackpot
• 5 or more players must be dealt into the hand.
• In Texas Hold’em the winning hand must include both the hole cards. In the event that the High Hand is a Four-of-a-Kind, the two hole cards must be a pocket pair.
• The hand must be raked and jackpot contribution collected from the hand in order for the hand to qualify for the HHJP.
• In the event that the same two or more qualifying Jackpot hands are hit within the same qualifying period, the Jackpot shall be divided evenly among all of the equal high hands.
• Players must play their hands independently and cannot tell opponents how to act or reveal their hand to other players. Violations will disqualify the hand for the Jackpot.
• Players must have a Mohegan Sun Player’s Club card for his/her hand to qualify.

Dumb question time:

Half rake means 10% to $2 or 5% to $4?

10% to $2

I just got back from a weekend @ Salamacca Casino in NY, They rake $3 on the flop, the last Dollar @ $40 pot.
They also take another $1 for the Bad Beat Jackpot, it's @ $102,000 as of Sat nite

I'm pleased to see the floor has improved after a rocky start.

I was playing in a $1/2 NL game when I got AA in middle position from Seat 10. I raised to $20. The gentleman in Seat 4 called and everyone else folded. Our effective stacks were $150.

I bet $40 into a 9 6 5 rainbow flop and Seat 10, who had yet to fold preflop, came over the top all-in. I called and he showed 9 7 offsuit.

The turn was a 9, and the river was a 3. As the dealer was about to push the pot to Seat 10, I called the floor. After a bit of quick calculation, they decided to award the pot as follows:

$43 (preflop) - 82.4 percent to me; 17.6 percent to Seat 10
$260 (postflop) 65.5 percent to me; 34.5 percent to Seat 10

So I ended up with $35.40 based on preflop equities and $170.30 based on postflop equities (I let Seat 10 keep the extra $1 chip to help him with his condition). So instead of losing a $300 pot and walking out with nothing, I ended up with $205 and a small profit.

All in all, I'm very pleased with the strides the staff have made to make the poker experience at Mohegan Sun more fair and pleasurable. Foxwoods probably would have just let Seat 10 get away with his bush-league shenanigans. Kudos to the Mo'!

Huh? I am so lost. You called the floor after you lost and they gave you money back? Nice angle shoot.

Wait a minute, you were seat 10 and the dealer missed seat 10? wtf?

I think he was trying to write about a hand in which seat 10 did not call the 20 pre flop, got to see the flop for free, and then pushed?

But really doesnt make any sense the way he wrote it. If seat 10 did not call pre, his cards should be dead, and seat 4 and the raiser should be the only live cards...???

Went to MS for the first time this past Saturday night, was very impressed with the casino, it felt more like a resort than the casinos in atlantic city
The poker room was very nice, the brushes seemed competent, my only complaint was this one girl dealer came to the table and announced she had a bet with another dealer to see who would make more in tips for the night, i was like wtf.. and decided i would not be tipping her ( not that it mattered, as i didnt win a single pot all night ) :-)

Played 1/2 for about 2 hours, but got pretty drunk and decided to go play 3/6 since i was pretty card dead and didnt want to give my money away

Also playing 1/2 for me is torture, i usually get into arguments when i play bc im very quick to call the clock, i just dont have the patience to sit there for 3 plus minutes when someone is faced with a 40 dollar raise and they go into their hollywooding routine, " will u show me if i fold " etc.....

I got some dirty looks when i sat down in the 3/6 game with 300 in red, one kid was like how much are the red chips worth lol

I lost with AA and KK, but then proceeded to win several nice pots, one with queen hi lol. then with the queen 4 hand that i 3-bet and beat some nits pocket jacks

All in all i liked the room alot and im excited to go back and play for real

Nice level.

Have over 100 hours at MS at 1/2 in the last 1.5 months, have yet to have a decision take more than 1 minute for any hand for any player that I can remember. Might you be exaggerating just a bit?

not exagerating one bit, 100 hrs isnt really alot of time for you to have an opinion, what is that basically 2 weeks of full time playing?

i would never call the clock if a player has a real decison, or if its for a significant amount of money, it just drives me crazy when players are playing 1/2 and think that every decison has to be like they see on tv , like they think if they wait 3 minutes a light bulb will go off in their head to give them the answer their looking for

Let me make a point about the Bet with another Dealer comment, I'll bet she said she had a bet on who would deal a High Hand, They do not comment on tips except to say thank you, and any comments about Red Chips would be made, because they use the $3 TURTLE Chips, in the $3/$6 game. Red chips slow the game down........

$2/$5 NL, and this guy walks up to the table and drops two blacks chips in the middle of the table. But he didn't sit down. What the heck? Turns out that this dealer had dealt him a straight flush earlier in the day. The player split the $2000 jackpot. So he got $1000, and he's tipping the dealer $200. Nice tip.

How much would you tip the dealer?

On a 1k jackpot...5% so like 50 bucks

you would lose that bet :-)

LOL @ worst hand description in 2+2 history.

BTW, how the F did they come up with that calculation for the equities?! Were they using an abacus?

What is the main difference between Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun?

if you want to play anything other than 1-2NL and 2-5NL, you pretty much have to go to foxwoods. foxwoods poker room is about 4x bigger than mohegan, but the room itself at mohegan is a lot nicer.

games on weekdays are generally a lot softer at foxwoods than mohegan.

weirdly enough though, 2-5NL at mohegan is actually softer than foxwoods, because the lack of regular higher stakes games keeps 5-10NL and 10-20NL players away.

Dealers get to keep their own tips at MS while at Foxwoods the dealers pool their chips. Therefore, the dealers at MS have a better incentive to keep the game moving at a faster pace and being more customer service orientated.

MS's room is much nicer and more open. Many of the tables at Foxwoods are under a low ceiling, giving the feeling of playing in a basement.

stoli vs. grey goose

To addition to previous posts. If you like to play SnG go to Foxwoods.
2/5NL are different at Fx and MS. Maybe it feels softer in MS , but
at Fx it's usualy half table strong and half table complete fishes.
At MS it's not that obvious and has more layers, until you moved
to main table. It's similar Fx.
For higher stakes you have to go to Fx. In MS even 5/10NL is half time
waiting list for one table only.

Overall room is better in MS and MS dealers are more motivated.

BTW. About a week ago I had short discussion at FX , when one
player said "Raise" at 2/5 table and through $30 of reds. Half of them
crossed betting line and half not. I was arguing that actual bet was $15,
not $30. Floor confirmed $30 with comments that "betting line" is just
symbolic and means nothing. I was really surprised.
Any thoughts?

I've had similar conversations about the betting line. Apparently it is just there for decoration?

During a 1/2 game at Mohegan, I was next to act after a large bet. As I was counting out the necessary amount of chips (in front of my cards but well behind the betting line), the dealer warned me this could be construed as a call if he really wanted to be a stickler.

At Foxwoods it's simply a courtesy line for the dealer, so they don't have to stretch too far to pull in your chips. It has no "official" purpose.