Unless there's suspicion of collusion then a shift manager can watch play and expose hands. Other than that, that would be an insane rule.

Unfortunately their rulings still leave alot to be desired. They allow players to angle shoot far more than at FW.

A little over a month ago I had a guy at Twin 2/5 nl raise me, I rereaise all in, he threw chips in the middle after I said all in. Dealer said to him 'you call?' He says nothing. After about 15 seconds of silence I say , He threw chips in facing an all in bet, right? Dealer agrees. River runs out. I flip over my aces. Guy says he was still debating calling and the chips going in simply reflected completing his raise. I obviously say that's proposterous and call floor.

Dealer changes tune and says, 'maybe I didn't give him enough time.' Floor rules he hasn't called my all in yet. My aces stay face up, THEY DISCARD THE RIVER CARD AND REWIND TO THE TURN.


He gets to decide if he wants to continue in the hand with a new river card or fold the turn. He folds the turn and just completes his original raise and I'm awarded the significanrly smaller than it should have been pot. Most ridiculous ruling I've ever seen and it happened to me. Cost me about $250 and I should've fought it more and got the shift involved, but I print money there and didn't want drama.

They really, really need to get all the floor together and go over what is a call/raise and what isn't. I've seen too many horror stories there from awful rulings.

- Magic Man

The above post spotlights why this is the worst run room to open in the last two years. From CA to Vancouver, across to FL and up to Montreal. The worst.

Only the guy sitting next to the angle shooter could believe it. There were several good regs at the table arguing my case to the two floors who made the crazy assed ruling. I'm still steaming about it

I am at a table with two guys who are openly colluding. They checked it down while another player was all in, after one of them flops the nuts and the other asks him if he flopped the flush and the first one confirmed. During hands when only one of them is active, they are talking about the hand in progress. I made a comment after the checking it down incident and one of them feigned ignorance. I've alerted the floor but you know how it is here.

They have broken ground on the expansion.

As in poker room expansion? Or the building in general?

Poker room. They have blocked off a section in the table games area and they are rewiring and have removed the tables

damn you beat me...but I have pics:



and to be accurate this area had slots in it...they are moving the existing table gams over...and putting in 6 new poker tables

****. I saw this and meant to come look for you and forgot =\

So I'm happy this guy is apparently wrong, although just goes to show you the caliber of the dealer pool.

Question: is the poker room now going to be in two sections? Or is the podium going to move? Will people still be able to walk through or will they have to go all the way around?

I'm still concerned that the room has insufficient traffic to warrant an expansion. Sure the 3 hour waits on Friday and Saturday are crazy, but typically it's below an hour by 10:30pm and open seating by midnight. These new tables will only be full from 7-11pm Friday and Saturday nights, and there will be a lot of hassle with breaking tables. Let's hope the expansion also brings with it a shift in consumer behavior (maybe more people will come if they know the waits are less insane). At least now there should always be a 5/10 must move open if there's a decent waitlist.

And I ask again, is anyone interested in getting a 10/20 LHE or 10/20 stud game going? If we show up on a weeknight (or maybe even a weekend with these new tables) with 8ish people, they say they'll spread the game! I have at least two friends who would be in. Let's set a time in the next two weeks!

I'd play limit.

There is a dealer class happening very soon

I can assure this to be true and not a rumor.

Will they spread PLO with the new tables opening? Anyone asked floors about this? Or is it some dumb Rhode Island gaming law that they can't spread it?

i dont think they are allowed to spread it

They're not allowed to spread it under current law.

I had been told all along that the new tables were going between the desk and the west entrance but taking another look at the photo, it seems they're going in on the north side on the far side of the table games. Does this mean the poker room will be split? Maybe there could be some designated of high stakes room vs regular as at other casinos but I doubt enough high stakes run to warrant that. Will be interesting to see how they do it, or if anything else shifts around.

No. They are just shifting over the existing table games closer to the glass doors. And then putting the six new tables where the current table games are. And will take down the half wall near the cage

I've been told that they are working on getting approval for PLO from the gaming commission.

Id be interested in dipping my pinky toe in some PLO if they spread it

It would be amazing. Hopefully a 1/2 with a 5 bringin. Although there would be lots of dealer errors, at least at first. But it'd be worth it. The 5/10 killed the FW action, bring on the PLO to do the same.

what is the bring in for plo

Usually the same as the bb but the Venetian had a 1/2 PLO game that had a $5 bring in. Worked much better, easier to keep track of the pot size, went faster due to not having to make change all the time. Foxwoods allows this game but there was usually one big nit who would complain so it wasn't always like that because the whole table had to agree

In a 1/2/5 PLO game, a player can either fold, call $5, or pot to $15 (the pot is rounded up to the nearest $5). This makes it easier to calculate bets, without too many messy $1's, also let's the game play bigger and with more action. I play in a 1/2/5 PLO game back home where it's not uncommon to have $10k+ on the table and for everyone to have $1k+ stacks. That game has uncapped buyins. A buyin cap might be an issue in a TR Omaha game, even $300 doesn't go too far in a big action 1/2/5 game.

Jpsych - I'm not surprised that the floor did nothing about the collusion. It is unfortunate, but the floor people do not even know the basic rules of poker.