In the city MCC for $2/5 and $5/10. MGM sometimes for $2/5 and PLO. Both of those plus Greektown are all fine for $1/2 games.

If you're out a ways there's probably a decent charity room with action around. But they do vary a bit and I can't tell you exactly where to go.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll be staying at hotels near the airport but working in midtown and heading right to the casino after work & dinner (9-11pmish) so i'll be pretty close to the casinos you've mentioned. Does MCC have easily accessible parking?

Also do the MCC $2/5 and 5/10 tables always run on Thurs, Fri, Sat nights?

2/5 yes. Not 100% sure on 5/10 as I don't play but know they been getting 5/10/20 on Friday and Saturday's. Parking very easy... free parking garage connected right to casino.

They all have easy parking.

There are a couple of room near the airport that are also probably good. Vision Lanes, Malarkys, I think Momo's is still open, and a few others. (Not sure familiar with the rooms in around there.)

Also make sure you call well ahead if you plan on going to MCC. The bad beat jackpot is approaching $700k and the lists get insane around the time you stated.

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Yes I waited two hours (1 hour call and 1 hour in 1/2) to get a 2/5 seat.

As many said, your best option for guaranteed 2-5 NL is going to be MotorCity Casino. On Friday and Saturday night they'll have 4-5 tables of 2-5 NL going so you'll have a chance to change tables if you find yourself locked up with a table of nits. $200-$800 buy in for the 2-5 NL game. They also run a 5-10-20 NL game on Friday and Saturday. I believe the buy-in for that game is $500-$3000 but I'm not 100% sure of that. The game starts at 6 PM on Friday and usually will run all night.

They also consistently have had a 2-5 PLO game every day, but as the bad beat continues to grow (almost $700,000, it takes specifically quads over quads with pocket pairs in your hand to hit it), more and more PLO players are playing hold 'em. It's actually made some of the 2-5 hold 'em games really good. For what it's worth, the 2-5 PLO buy-in is $200-$1000.

They have free (most people will tip) valet parking and the self-parking ramp is connected right to the casino. They're doing a bunch of construction right outside the casino, but all the main roads are still open for you to access the casino.

MGM will probably also have 2-5 NL going on the weekend, but it might only be one table and you might face a long wait to get on it at 9 PM.

Also, as a side note, this bad beat needs to hit soon at MCC. My hourly is so much better at 2-5 PLO than 2-5 NLHE. The PLO game not starting at 10 or 11 AM any more is killing my poker profits for the last month or so

Same. I'm not as sharp in NLHE any more and the game plays totally different as a BBJ-chasing nit fest. It's just not fun. Getting run down over and over hasn't helped either.

I've dialed back my hours at MCC b/c it's been too frustrating. Also, when PLO does go, it hasn't been very good bc all the fun players are still sitting at NLHE.

MCC BBJ inching up on $700k. Come on, someone from this thread pop that cherry ��

Right now the plan is to be there 'all night' Friday into Saturday, maybe Sunday morning. Tigers in town .. may take in a game. GL

Yea, I hate when it gets like this. The whole "lets have two separate jackpots" thing (which I've never seen anywhere else) as a way to get it as high as possible becomes counterproductive once you reach your room cap and *stay* there. Having a jackpot to attract players is good for the room, having those players wander over to the blackjack tables while they wait is even better. But have a 2-3 hour list all day long for months turns people away from your room as they know they're not getting a seat. Then it burns out your staff.

The staff is totally gassed, they want this to be over with so badly. Some of the old regs are playing so much now that they're totally sick of each other. Arguing over dumb $ht, sniping at each other all day, one allegedly pushed another one during an argument earlier this week. No one should have to spend this much time with some of these people. The room sucks right now. But here I am, making weekly trips there bc $700K yo.

Sounds like Thanksgiving at my house.

Just wait until it resets above $300k.

They've exceeded their physical capacity, even with the new tables in the slot area, and they've exceeded their personnel capacity to operate like this.

They mentioned they're doing a different high hand hourly promotion once it hits.


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On top of the BBJ right? I've heard dealers say basically how people are getting ridiculous with being there so often when once it hits it'll reset to such a high number. But doing another promotion could slow the growth of the BBJ

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Personally I'd rather see a high hand promotion instead of a BBJ. You feel like you actualllu have a shot to hit that. I've played for 15 years and played 10+ tables at a time online and I can't say for certain I've seen quads over quads. Maybe it happened in an online table I wasn't watching?

Anyway, they had a high hand promotion of $500/half hour at 1/2 and $1000 at 2/5 when I lived in southwest Florida. Got a great turnout and every half hour you fee like you have a chance to win.

Yea, HH promos and other smaller more frequent payouts are much *much* better. Sure, I'd love to have a $200k+ payday from a BBJ. But you can create a lot more happy people eager to come back to the room with small payouts. It's also a *hell* of a lot easier to just slap that $500 on the table and gamble it away, or stop for a steak on the way out. The jackpot money isn't going back into play when it gets like this.

Between home games and live poker, I've basically been playing 15 years. I've only played online a little bit, but I think I've seen quads over quads with pocket pairs 3 times (3 of my 6 table shares of the bad beat, the others were straight flush vs quads or back when Aces full of Jacks was the qualifier).

This. Exactly.

Do no employees of these rooms read these types of forums/threads? I've seen so much of this kind of discussion over the years and so many good ideas from the player base that don't get implemented. Not that everything said on the internet is good advice... but this one actually makes sense. Maybe because the state won't get its big chunk of taxes that way?

^this, saw a old scummy type reg constantly falling asleep at the table, just gave him the needle about it, gross behavior to be passing out at the table.

+2

Me too. I've only been playing serious for a year and a half so I've only played once during a HH promo in Toledo but it definitely had a more upbeat mood as the clock ticked down compared to all the depressed people trying to hit a miracle hand.

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Oh and 1000 every half hour seems huge, what was the rake?

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