Yes voted to be downsized to slots and such. They are afraid it will hurt their retail and peoples disposable income. I can't but laugh at that....now tell me foxwoods and mohegan doesn't have their hands in this lobbying against it.

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Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun have built very solid reputations... doubtful that they will "lose a lot of customers" if a casino is built in the Mass area.

please please please God, Let Suffolk Downs/Wonderland be the location of a new casino w/poker room. It'd be degen central, like printing money. Also, let's not forget the whole Revere beach area is ripe for redevelopment. Water/beach front property with NOTHING going on. Could be a goldmine if done properly.

Monty they already had the debate two days ago. Like I said shot down....they want slots for the reasons I stated. I think also if they did get the full rooms is ludacris to think they wouldn't lose business....every player I know is either from CT or mass. I'm in mass and I would def like to go to the closer room given its good. And also I think like 28000 players from the poker allegiance stood up during these debates for a different. Issue but still its obvious there are atleast this many serious players in mass plus some.

from today's globe:
also www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/16/casinos_mass/

I understand, right now, they can put slots in, but there's nothing stopping them from building something new. Unless i'm more confused than usual.
.. and btw, horse racing + casino=even more $$$.... and if it happened, i would NEVER go to FW MS again. Why would anymore up here drive all the way down there unless it was some special tournament.

No question Foxwoods would lose a huge % of their business. Look at what PA and Yonkers, NY slots have done to AC. Aside from the economic downturn AC has been seeing declines for several years.

What remains to be seen is whether a competing cardroom would get the higher limit games (20/40+) and the stud games. Of course they will "steal" a huge number of the NL 1/2 games. And likely some of the 2/5 and possibly 5/10. But it will remain to be seen whether the larger NL games will go. AC has shown that in one geographic area there is a limited number of the higher limit games that will go and the Borgota now has consolidated that business (whereas 5 years ago the Taj had it all).

Since 1981 I've seen card clubs come and/or decline/go out of business in the LA area and traveling convenience is super important. If a card club and/or casino is at least half decent and much closer to the Boston and Providence metro area it simply will take a huge chunk of customers away from the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos which have few customers living within a 30 or even 45 minute drive.

Quick question: Googled the news reports and it's still unclear where and about when the Massachusetts casinos will be built. Anyone have a heads up?

It's still unclear, although the south shore area is the front-runner (Middleboro). They're just trying to hurry and get it legalized first. It still needs to get through the Senate.

This is the most up to date info I found.

http://www.boston.com/business/artic...their_pitches/

Does anyone know if the sat. morning $120 NL Hold Em tournament draws a good field ? Thanks in advance

Usually 80-100 runners.

witht he way the big dig went how hopeful are you really going to be.

there is going to be so many problems getting this thing going it will be comical.

i hope to christ there is a sweet poker room THAT IS WELL RUN at a casino very close to boston.

wonderland would be a sweet spot except that traffic would pretty much make anyone who lives in revere want to kill themselves 20x more than they already do

I'm still recovering from an 18 hour session Fri-Sat. I stayed too long and didn't want to drive home in the middle of the night.

I started out on a table with a wild Mediterranean (?) man who went from $250 to about $2K and back down to $0 in the course of a few hours. He raised every bet that came to him. He kept getting it all in with second pair and catching by the river.

It was awesome but I didn't get any of it. One guy gambled with him and scooped most of it. Him and his cute girlfriend hit the road happy.

My last table was the Zynga poker of Foxwoods 1/2. Half the hands were limped, the other half raised $10-12. Either way 5-8 saw every flop. Any higher raise got no action so you just had to ride the wave.

We were a row off the alley between checkin and cage. I was the tired one in #10 who kept disappearing for a smoke break to keep myself kicking.

I was card dead and played my B game most of the night. Pulled a whopping $110 off the biggest action tables I've seen to date.

xbeatax is still the talk of the town.

Don't feel bad.

33x18= 594hands (let's call it 600) Over an 18 hr period. Live play is Slow.

3 big blinds per hour(since it's no limit, and I guess you're shooting four 3-5 blinds per hour)=$6.00 per hour

6$x18= $108

So $110 bucks is not far below par(unless you were shooting for 5 big blinds).

Sheesh.

Makes ya wanna play higher don't it?

This was probably three weeks ago, but I'm finally getting around to posting this. Was there a 2p2er at this table for this hand:

Flop: 4s5sQd
$150 one all in pre flop. 2 callers.

Flop shove and call for about $250 more.

Turn: Qh River: 2c

Hands shown: KhKs, KdKc, Ad3s

This was so sick, I wasn't even in the hand and I had to go for a walk.

If
Shout if this was your kings you lost with.

Shouldnt there be a cap on a hand before you can call it sick? Or less outs than just a gutter? A $650 pot? 4 outer gamble for a gutter?

it was 1/2 at foxwoods. thats super standard. lol.

I'm a reg there, anyone else feel like 1/2 has been real dry for the last few months? I feel like there are very little action tables now.

Give 4/8 a shot. I played for about 16 hours combined on Saturday and Sunday and saw more $200+ pots this weekend than I have ever seen. Granted, that never happens on weekdays.
Saturday night, on the turn, I held the nut flush and it was 3 bets to me. Lucky hand, it held up.

My table last night had more action that I wanted. $400 turn bets into $50 pots. 4 way all ins. 3 bets getting called in 6 places preflop

The question is how do you call 150 with ace 3?

Not on the weekends, no.

I just remembered that I saw a sign in the poker room that advertised receiving a text message when your table is ready.

Has anyone used this service? Or have any idea how to sign up/use it?

I would rather just hang around and wait for my name to be called so i can immediately lock it up and feel better about myself.. Ive seen way to many shady altercations between multiple players and the floor about who locked it up this and i was here first this and that, bla bla bla.

Anyone going to be there this Thursday 04/22 and Friday 04/23? I will be down Thursday late afternoon, staying overnight, playing 4/8 LHE.

~Mygtar

I might head down Friday afternoon for a little while. Are you a 4/8 reg?