who is hitting up the woods this week....what day looks good, I'm sizing up Wednesday, snow cleared and should be plenty of people like me off from work

I have a room for Thursday night, so I'll be up most of the day Thursday and some of Friday.

Not true anymore. More than often if you get an interest going you'll play...most likely short handed for awhile but the word spreads and it fills

Anyone have any updates on the road conditions around Foxwoods? How many 2-5's and 5-10's going tonight? I was hoping to head up from nyc tomorrow afternoon, but may have to wait until Wed.

what are the normal limit holdem stakes spread on the weekdays? weekends? thanks!

2/4, 4/8, 5/10 Kill, 10/20, 20/40 --sometimes 40/80, sometimes bigger

Has anyone seen an event schedule for the February mega? Is there a Foxwoods rep on these boards?

Im pumped got a room at MGM... thank you wampum points... and will be playing all day wednesday, and if all goes well most of thursday.

Debating on playing $240 deep bounty tourney or just grinding $1/$2 NL. Would love to play some PLO but it does not run there ever. It's a much better game than PLO8... sorry Bill

Hey Guys,

Looking for anyone who has played the daily 11am and nightly 6pm and how many runners I can expect? I am going down Wednesday and the 6pm that night is the $200 dollar knockout. Curious if anyone has played this specifically as well?

Thanks for any info.

daily 11's usually get 60-80 on a normal weekday, but given this is a holidayish week with a lot of people off from work I'll bet you see 110 or so.

The 6PM's, again, normal week 70-90, but this week probably 90-120

never played the knockout, might play tomorrow....50 a is a large proportion of the prize pool in this particular structure so something to consider

Attn: Degens

2:00 a.m. last night, I saw a car almost flipped over on Rt 164 (the road that brings you back to Rt 395). The car was half way on the guardrail at a 45 deg angle. Snow had blown back onto the windy road.

yep, if you think this doesn't happen-you are very naive.

Actually for awhile back in 2009 there were a bunch of reports about stolen chips in the fox poker room. Sign of the times, and people not watching their chips...now i see a lot of players pick up their bills and blacks when they are away from the table

people at the games I play would complain if they saw you take your chips off the table ... to say go use the bathroom ... I would not recommend leaving 5 buyins behind while you go back to your room, take a shower, get something to eat at burke's then come back 90 mins later ... though I have seen it and nothing happened

at this old casino the dealer would count your chips and leave a note stating how much you left ... if you say told them you were going to get dinner

The main reason I never leave money at the table for more than a couple minutes, there are some dirty people out there.

What's going down late next week (the 5th-7th)? I would love to get a good PLO game going!

I generally feel like my money is safe if left at the table, but when I get up, I do a couple of things:

-Count my stack, so I know the exact amount.
-Put all of my bills all the way under the stacks, so they're covered by multiple stacks of chips.
-Cover all of my chips with whites, so that no non-white chip can be removed without touching another chip. Hard to explain, but I'll make a little pyramid on top of my 20-stacks, hiding the blacks, greens, etc., so that only white chips are on top. I think you get what I mean. Maybe kind of nitty, but it doesn't take long.

If I have a bunch of bills, I'll just count them up and tell the dealer. "Dealer, I'm taking 900 off the table, I'll be back." This is typical in the higher games, and nobody has a problem with it. Just return it to the table when you get back.

One time, I had a huge stack, and I needed to go to breakfast. I asked the floorman, and got a lucite cover to lock them up while I left for a half hour or so. Too easy for someone to snatch a pumpkin off the top. Rare occasion, though.

Once in a while, I'll ask the player next to me to keep an eye on my chips, if we've been friendly, but not usually. I've had people come to my table and try to rack up someone else's chips, but we stopped him. Also, the guy to whom they belong was only a few feet away, and made for an interesting conversation between him and the thief, haha. They sent security after him, but I'm not sure what happened.

Yikes, tl;dr, but whatever.

No such luck on winning back-to-back Birthday tournaments, they had 214 runners in the $120 last night though which was very impressive. Ran up 15K starting stack to over 38k by getting AAx3 and QQ. One of The AA was AA>KK all in pre A in window, but couldnt get anything going after my J10ss< AA on Jc10c5s all in on flop when i check raised and he shoved, Ah on river FML...got me down to 15K, and of course I get my favorite....a limped BB pot, look down at 3d6d check my option, flop a flush and lose to a bigger flopped flush...sigh...I was at one of the front 2 tables in the 2 seat with a Bruins winter skully...give me a Sup Bro? next time!!

Will be at 1/2 today before and after 3EB, come say hi, grey hoodie, glasses, blonde hair and probably bitter

Going to FW Saturday AM. May try the 5/10 game for the first if it is running (usually play 4/8). Buy in for a rack of reds be enough? Any suggestions on playing the kill?

300 should be fine, but if your like all the other limit donks buy in for 1K and build chip structures

First post:
Unsolicited commentary on my experience at foxwoods:
I've been playing at Foxwoods with extreme irregularity for 4 years. I live 2 hrs away. I have been going more lately. And the difference in the level of play now and 4 years ago is pretty significant. 1-2NL was a joke 4 years ago. Like 90% dead money. 2-5 was 100% tougher. Now, 1-2 has many very legit grinders and fewer tourists from what I've seen. Obviously the level of all poker rooms has gone up in the last 4 years so its not surprising. I like to go when I know I won't have to wait for a seat. Mainly at like 2am. But this also means that the only people playing are pretty good. But sometimes tired. So its not usually too bad a game. When I first started I was playing 1-3 7stud. Basically grinding for gas money to get home. Loved it though. Grind for 5 hours net about $60 and go home. lol. Those were the days.

The good ol days of Foxwoods was when 1-2 was a time game. If you were a smart lag, I swear you could average $35/hr in those games. I often thought the earn was better in alot of 1-2 games than 2-5 at the time. But you're right, unfortunately the games are harder to beat for good money (although they're obviously still beatable)

The poker room is jammin this evening. 7 2/5 tables runnin.

That will be fine. I'm used to more aggro games and 25 big bets can go pretty fast even when playing well. But for the first time that should be fine.

Kill basics:

1) you have to account for posting the kill blind on the next hand when making decisions in pots that will end up over the kill trigger ($100). Pot odds and implied odds take a hit.

2) not all kill posts are the same. Some will tell you the kill is like extra rake, and that's not entirely accurate. You have equity in any posted blind. You have much more equity in a kill blind posted on the button than one posted UTG. Be more willing to do the former than the latter.

3) try to understand how the kill affects different opponents. Some will see the higher stakes and tighten up significantly. Some will see the extra blind money and get crazy trying to win it. Try to figure out who is who.

4) Chopping in kill pots is dicy. The killer is getting an enormous freeroll. But the rake is still pretty high. We'd like to be winning more than our fair share of big pots and, thus, hoping to post more than our fair share of kill blinds. But we should also be raising our kill more liberally than they will so I think we won't get the freeroll as often as they will. I'm not sure what the right answer is but I don't like to do it.

Good luck and post a TR in small stakes.

Thanks FOXWOODSnuts and Munga, I appreciate the feedback.

Great, informative post. Ty