I am staying at the Mirage to try something new and will be there the week of the old people's tournament on June 15.

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Yeah Mirage has nice rooms and can't beat the location. I think I make the cut fo the old people's tournament for the first time this year. Will you be playing mostly at the Rio?

Yeah I agree with this and can see an overall decline on posting. The Detroit forum used to be the most popular and always at the top of the Regional Community list. Used to be posts on an hourly basis, now could go days even a week without a post.

There is very deep Seniors' schedule in town that week so all over.

Last year I played at Caesars with a Korean movie star. She was sh*t faced and kept buying in with $1,000 baccarat chips (which I did not know existed).

This woman sounds right up AtariRob's alley!

We lost a bunch of guys that would post regularly about all kinds of crap. When was the last time anyone heard from Frank the Lizard or the Caveman?

It's been awhile since I've seen Caveman post or Gambit in this thread for that matter. I talk to Frank occasionally , he's still active in the poker world but doesn't post here as much.

Sevup and I promise if we final table at the WSOP we will sponsor the MPM podcast for a year.

Lol maybe even two if it will bring Frank and Gambit out of retirement.

Nothing of value to say. Just posting to keep the thread alive. That is all. Peace Out.

Alive and well .. didn't want to get in the way of the 'reunion' conversation.

Heard that MCC was just putting in new carpet? I had heard, basically from the same sources that confirmed the Bravo rumor, that they were going to renovate that floor of the casino into a larger poker room after the BBJ hit .. Maybe not ...

We may have another room on the west side coming soon .. Gun Lake in Wayland may be putting a poker room in a now closed restaurant space. Not sure that it will generate higher stake play, but it will put a serious dent in the charity room (and home game) business by cutting the drive to a casino (Firekeepers) by 60-80% for most. I probably will have to get my high stakes itch scratched in Detroit, but with longer play and unlimited chips it may just not happen as often. GL

I see on Motor City's Bravo it says Big O (5 card omaha high) coming soon. Got excited for a minute that it was going to be the hi/lo version.

I just checked their site and see 11, $1-2 games at 1:10 PM on a Wednesday plus 4 for MGM and 3 at Greektown and 4, $2-5 at motor City. That seems like a lot for Detroit. I was surprised.

Tax (return) season ... best time of year for poker .. GL

Yeah that is true. There's also been some other activity downtown bringing people into the casinos. When I was at Greektown Friday there was a high school wrestling meet (maybe the state finals?) going on at Ford Field and a tattoo convention going on somewhere else. Also had the Horizon league tournament at LCA last week through Sunday.

Thanks for this info. Wasn’t the Michigan Poker Open the tournament that did not meet their guarantee last year?

Yep. I'm watching the wings game and they welcomed their two millionth fan to the building tonight. The executive said they're one of the two busiest buildings in the world.

Imagine the attendance if the Wings and Pistons games weren't half empty. Are there any omaha hi/lo or mixed game players still around?

Hey, Detroit is alive. 6/12 limit O8/Stud8 r/r Mondays in toledo

Talking about Red Wings and poker makes me nostalgic for 2005 watching Darren McCarty blow his salary at 10/25NL at Greektown. I remember railbirding that game while waiting watching him get into a 4-way all-in with AA vs. 55 on a 225 flop and rivering the Ace to win. He went nuts and everyone there was cheering for him. I was never even remotely rolled to sit near that game, but I think it stopped running around the time time he stopped playing for some reason. Good times.

I played with him quite a bit over the years and he was always a great guy. The first time I ever met him the seat was open to his left and he was really taking up a lot of room to where it was hard for me to get my arms on the table. I was wondering how I was going to Chisel myself in there and I figured what the hell and I gave him a good elbow to his arm and said, "hey can I get a little room here Darren?" The look he gave me at first told me I might have made the biggest mistake of my life and I couldn't believe how stupid I was but then he laughed and said yeah I guess I am taking up a lot of room aren't I? Sorry about that.

He was always easy to talk to and was always a good guy.

Wow. Two nights ago at Momo's when it got to the heads up part of the tournament the dealer dealt to SB first, and I immediately said "wait, it's heads up now," and he says, "and?," and I politely said, "you know how in heads up BB gets dealt to first and is first to act postflop," and he says, "yeah, no, BB never acts first pre flop and SB is always the first to get dealt to," and I said, "sir, I'm sorry, but I guarantee BB gets dealt to first and acts first post flop." Well, he called floor, floor came over and said, "No, in Hold 'Em SB is ALWAYS first to act post flop and ALWAYS gets dealt to first."

I offered to pull the rule up on my phone and was denied by both the dealer and floor, as floor said even if it is the rule, at Momo's that's not what we do. It was extremely annoying, but I did still tip the dealer $60 afterwards. I know Momo's is very unprofessional, but good lord that's just embarrassing on their part.

That sounds like a fun game. You mean Hollywood, right? What time does it run until?

It annoyingly has a waiting list of all the regs all week and starts at 4, but can usually get a seat sometime early on. Goes til after midnight unless all the fish quit early.

Heads-up, the small blind is also the button. The dealer should deal to the button last, and thus the big blind player should get the first card. But cards are random, so really doesn't matter. they should just be consistent.

Preflop, the button/small blind is first to act. On the flop/turn/river, the button is last to act.

That may not be the rules at Momos, but it is everywhere else I've ever been, and that is hundreds of places.

Cheers, Greg Raymer (FossilMan)