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Originally Posted by djevans
just go play at borgata.
I was going to bring that up.
On a weekend Harrah's may have three to five Super 1/2 tables going (the super meaning the max buyin is $500). Borgata will have fifteen 1/2 tables, eight or nine 2/5 tables and two - four 5/10 tables. Or something like that.
The last 4 or 5 months I've been trying to drive down to Borgata to play 5/10 once or twice a month. Largely due to playing online at WSOP I made diamond Aspirations Level I at total rewards last year. This earned me a free 4 night stay with $100 room folio credit. I used this last month and went to Harrah's for an extended weekend with my wife and a couple we are friends with. The other couple only stayed one night and on the Sunday my wife was watching the Oscars. I didn't feel like going over to Borgata so I just went downstairs hoping to get a 2/5 game. There were like 7 or 8 people on the 2/5 list and I got the guy to call it, but I was the only one to show up to the table. Floor guy told me it was tough for them to get the 2/5 game going since their Super 1/2 game had the same buy-in as Borgata's 2/5 (yes, Borgata's 2/5 is only a max $500 buy-in, although I don't think the floorman's reasoning there is sound [Borgata's 5/10 is max $2,000 buyin]). So I went to play the Super 1/2. I'd played this Super 1/2 game one night like a year earlier when I went to Harrah's with a friend for a weekend and one night he felt like playing poker. It wasn't bad that night; people had stacks of chips and were talking and there was some action. But this night I walked over to the table with my $500. Sat down. Looked around. Just about everyone had like 70 or 80 bucks. The seat to my right when I sat down was empty. After a while a guy came and sat there. After a couple minutes he looked at my stack (at this point slightly less than the max buy-in of $500) and asked me if I won a high hand. And, god, the players at the 1/2 there would get so pissy over losing $80 to $100 in a hand whereas players at Borgata 5/10 losing $1,000 or whatever wouldn't have such an outward negative reaction.
I guess, basically, play at Borgata.
Last edited by Lego05; 03-12-2017 at 11:38 PM.