Do you know if double points days count towards tier status upgrades and lounge access or is it only the single points and double points are just for spending?

Single points only

Cee Lo Green tickets? Pay me Foxwoods and I'll go see him. Ridiculous. But it's nice to see concert tickets show up again as a reward. Also, rooms in May showed up online.

And if I was mod, first order of business would be ban hammer to that troll GOTF. Always causing a ruckus. He's like the Bobby Petrino of the Foxwoods thread..

I made the mistake of playing in the 11AM $120 tourney yesterday (Thursday). I NEVER have any frigging luck in these stupid donkaments. Not going to diclose the details, but I pushed all in in a spot where I was 100% I was ahead and what the villian had. Of course Villian called off all his chips with pair and flush draw and hits on river. At least it was over with quickly, and yet another reminder of why I don't ever play in them. How can people turn a profit in these? How can you be that lucky? How is it worth the time you invest?

Anyways, had a great time playing 2/5 and played at an absolutely BONKERS table. Got my pound of flesh and turned a nice profit to wrap up a good couple months. Gonna take a month off now and enjoy some family time.

I have noticed the last few times I have gone down- A LOT of 5/10 regs playing 2/5 more than the norm. Whats up with this?

OH, and I had to add something about a hand I heard something about and seems pretty unbelievable. one of the 2/5 nits was in the middle of a big dustup. Basically, there was a big multiway pot, nit X was last to act (Action to him was $20 to call a $600 pot on the turn he had top pair with a busted flush draw), dealer threw out river without nit X declaring action. Table was in an uproar for nit X to throw in $20 (Nit X obv lost), and nit X refused to do so. Floor was involved and after much shouting by other players, ruled that nit X either pay the $20 or leave.....nit X chose to leave.

My details are probably off here- can someone set me right? Assuming I am correct, seems to me that 1. The dealer didn't do their job and control the action/verify the action which gave nit X a chance to pull an angleshoot, and 2. Assuming I am correct- Nit X could have had the river card put back into deck and redealt, no?

Even if Nit X folded, the card should have been put back in the stub, re-shuffled the new river placed. Surpised with floor overseeing, that wasn't done automatically

What exactly is a dealer supposed to say when there is a raise? Ex. I raise to 20 pre, call, guy raises really quickly throwing out reds (dealer loudly says "RAISE 40") - In my experience dealers usually say something like "raise, 20 more" or "raise TO 40". I thought it was 40 more and fold quickly and it costs me a buncha money ofc. Either way it's my own fault for not asking/looking more carefully but am jw out of curiosity if there's an actual 'rule' for this.

Eagerly awaiting Lattimer Foxwoods Bot to respond.

either is okay. dealer should state whether its on top or total but not required. raises are announced in NL to speed up the game.

. I'll check with a shift to see what the SOP says for you though. I always try to announce it both ways, aka "Raise it up, 20 more, 40 total" but theres so much going on it doesn't always come out that way.

played the 6PM last night, never saw so many ridiculous things in my life and I've played a lot of the dailey donkaments at the woods. I think the 20K in chips just make people play worse.

So how busy did the room get last night? I never had a chance to check the website/bravo

Yesterday was insane. Every single table passed the arches was being used. Never seen that before.

BTW when do we have to use "old" points by, or they expire? Someone said June 30th?

How many people usually join the daily tournaments during the weekdays?

Just wondering.....

Bad beat showing on the web site at 390k. I don't think it's be updated today, but say someone hits it right now, do they go and count the amount up to date, or do you get the amount on the board?

Same as if they do update it to whatever at noon and it gets hit at 4 in the morning, do they count the days receipts.

When the jackpot is so high and the room is banging to get it, you could be talking about a 10k-15k difference

^ no idea. But ive always wondered who the hell counts all this. They take $1 from every pot, and throw a number up on the board. They could have taken 500K by now and only posted that its at 390K. Nobody is gonna question it so they could get away with whatever they want. Could be a massive scam for all we know.

It could be possible, but if they got caught doing that it would go very public and they would lose many millions of dollars in the future. I doubt they would risk it for a few thousand, regardless of how desperate they are.
Also, I am sure by now somebody would have come up with some sort of math formula estimating the number of eligible tables and qualifying hands per hour and be able to make a relatively accurate estimate of where the bad beat should be. I doubt 100k could slide under the radar.

Actually they have taken 500k to get to 390 (now showing 399k on the bravo app). I think the takeout is 65% to current jackpot 5% to house and 30% to fund future jackpots. So every 1,000 qualified hands would add $650 to the current jackpot.

I understand them funding future jackpots, but don't like the idea of paying a buck to get 65 cents back. Very lottery-ish, which I guess is what the BBJ is.

2/5 guys save about 2K-3K a year by not being involved in this stupid thing. Chances of hitting it are astronomical.

Quad queens and str8 flush at 2/5 yesterday

Well, of course it gonna happen every once in an absolute great while...its inevitable. But chances are that its not even a reg.

Well,, you're right, but for the wrong reason.
Even though they only put 65% into the "front" jackpot, the other 30% does go into the "backup" jackpot, so the current jackpot started at more than zero because of this, so you're benefitting from the other 30%. And the gross payout to the players is (eventually) going to approach 95%.
However, because they take out taxes, the net back to the players is pretty close to the 65% you mention. On a macro basis, they're raking about $3-3.5M/year for the BBJ, and about $1M of it is coming out of the players permanently and going to the IRS.
It would take a pretty massive influx of weak players to make up for this.

Not to mention the 3% foxwoods holds.

This is only one side of the story and shortsighted IMO ...take a walk by the 1-2 area and see how many droolers there really are at these tables. Even if only 20% of them would opt to play 2-5 if it were included in the jackpot, the regs would more than make up the 2k. As much as some of you don't want to admit it, the 2-5 and 5-10 games are drying up and adding an influx of 1-2 recreational players should be a no-brainer for anyone with a big-picture perspective.

completely agree with that.

That would be 5%

What's the table change rules @ the woods? I haven't played poker there since like 2006. Get up and ask floor for a change? Tell the dealer? Get up and find a table with an empty seat? Might be coming down next weekend.