My point offers are also not up yet...

Nothing is out for May yet. Very unusual but it's true for everyone.

Anyone have any idea on how many runners the Thursday 6pm tourney gets on average?

Also, excellent avatar o0ch!

How often does PLO8 spread? I assume it's $1-2 with $500 max buy in? I get up there once or twice a year, and recall seeing it listed last time up. Thx.

It runs most days, with very regular players. Buyins $60 to $300.

Hasn't Foxwoods ALWAYS been obviously though?

There's always tons of miserable people there....

Absoluteley crazy night.
First off, the room is way less busier than it has been. Only 3-4, 2/5 games running tonight.
Second, the floor, as usual, is atrocious. Clear case of angleshooting. Guy check raises flop, bets turn, asks opponent on river how much he has left, grabs a stack of green, extends his arm across the line, while holding them, opponent says call. The guy said that he hasnt bet yet, floor is called. Guy admits that his intention was to bet the $150 in greens but the floor rules that since his hand never left the chips, that he only has to make a min bet of $5!!!!
This causes white trash lady with fake fingernails who wasnt even in the hand, to go off on me for 2+ hours. Apparently, during the 20 minutes that she played with me she deduced that I suck at poker, have horrible fashion sense and have a flat ass.
I changed tables and she continured coming over to my new table to berate me even more.
Nothing made me happier than when she busted while I was sitting on a $1k win.

I could never play live poker if it weren't for headphones.

Well that and JD.

Jess, rofl at your tr, I probably would have gotten permabanned if that happened to me. Was she on the younger side? If so I saw her get into a big fight when I was at the cage. Needless to say it was popcorn.gif

Yeah

Keep in mind that several investment companies about a year ago announced Foxwoods wasn't servicing their debt. In addition, the poker room just hired a bunch of new dealers. I may be that the poker room got told to reduce their costs and there is some disagreement between the room and upper management on how much needs to be cut. With the lack of money to build new casinos, they may decide that they don't need to give nearly as much out as they did since there's no further competition to worry about and most of those coming to Foxwoods will come anyway. MS doesn't give nearly the same amount out.

What happens in the poker room has zero effect on my comps.

It just so happens that I have an answer for this. I just started playing regularly at Foxwoods over the last month and a half. I was offered the free rooms for April in mid-March. After I booked them I was told at the Dream Rewards counter that May's offers will be available in mid-April.

I have to throw in a brag... I've done six four-day trips in the last forty days. I'm up $6374.00 over 44 sessions (mostly 2/5 NL during the day and 1/2 late at night. Although I've played 4 sessions of 5/10 during the tournament week, most of the profit came from 2/5)

For many of us, April offers came in on Feb 28th. They are just late putting them in this time.

My April offers came in at the end of February as well.

Hopefully today is the day!!!

you guys think foxwoods or mohegan will be a better place for 1/2 and 2/5 this weekend?

She was one of those types that I would not be able to guess her age. I have seen her twice. She played last Sunday and berated another player for betting when there were 4 spades on the board. I was not even at this table but I heard every word out of her mouth for hours.
She has dark hair that she pulls back tightly from her face, overweight, which she seems to be proud of because she kept telling me that if I "took it up the ass" my butt would be big like hers instead of flat as a pancake
She has a cellphone covered in a cheap, fake pink rhinestone case. She was playing 5/10 last week and 2/5 last night. So maybe after losing last night, she will drop down to her real skill level and play 1/2.
VERY LOUD and DOES NOT EVER STOP TALKING!
When she continued coming to my new table to talk to her "good friend"(he said that he only knows her from a mutusal club that they play in in NY), as soon as she left he would just tell the table story after story of her beratement of other players.

Great story jpsych. I prefer not wearing headphones, but always have them on me. Can't deal with stream of consciousness talkers.

If you aren't getting berated at Foxwoods you are doing it wrong.

This is just a problem with the house rules. They have betting lines on all the tables. For some reason they don't enforce it.

Places that enforce the betting lines don't have these common problems. I don't understand any objection to enforcing it. Anything that goes over the line stays there, if you didn't want it to go over, you shouldn't have brought it there. It stops angle shooting and keeps the game more honest.

After playing in a place that enforced the betting lines and then moving up here it was tough to get used to. I remember when the betting line was first enforced it was annoying, but now having to play in a place that doesn't enforce it, it is a great rule.

The other annoying thing they allow up here is betting less than what you have in your hand. Its another area that people take advantage of. Taking a stack of greens forward and only betting 4 of them while they eye you down. I really think that what ever is in the players hand that goes forward or across the line, or whatever the rule is, if they don't announce an amount, should all play.

I have also yet to receive offers, and as with Lattimer, I do not receive mine from poker. I do know that the lounge will be implementing its new policies in May that will factor in one's current "rate of play", so other cuts may also be coming, unfortunately.

Jpsychlady – I was at the table, and I think the floor’s ruling was fair. He reached up to the bet line with a handful of green, but he hadn’t acted yet. It was still his turn. His opponent had acted out of turn.

As Jpsychlady knows, during and after the floor’s ruling, the whole table broke out into a lot of arguing, yelling, name calling, etc. The dealer was kind of green, he did nothing to tell people to STFU, the game continued, and everyone was distracted (including the dealer).

The very next hand, I bet $50 on the river and pushed $50 forward, my opponent raised $95 on top, dealer moved my $50 closer to the pot, and after a little bit of thought, I called and put out a stack of red up to the bet line.

Showdown, I lose. Most of the pot gets pushed to my opponent. My stack of red is still sitting on the bet line, dealer looks me in the eye, and pushed me back the $95 in chips.

Several hands go by, and my opponent does realize that he is somehow short about $100. He says something to the dealer, and the dealer says that he might have been distracted, and may have made a mistake. My opponent talks to the floor, and he says he will have to ask surveillance. Later the floor says that surveillance couldn’t see the hand in question.

Jpsychlady – Just so you know, the 240 lbs lady from NY with the fake fingernails, she was stuck -$3500 from playing 5/10 NL on Saturday night.

I really hope that the weekly points don't go away. I only get 10 a week and that makes a huge difference... they really do add up and it helps a ton for someone like me who lives so far away, every extra bit counts.

Also I have no idea where all of this money's going if foxwoods is still failing to pay their bills. Every time I'm there I see nothing but every single table game packed with the majority of people loosing, and 20+ waiting lists for 1/2 and 2/5... I know that you have to pay your dealers and staff but come on, how greedy are the owners to still not pay off their debts?

Do you guys think any of the promotions involving poker black card will change? I'm going to be going for both gold and black next cycle but if all their comp programs are changing I might have second thoughts.

edit - I strongly agree that the bet line should be enforced at foxwoods, would clear up so much confusion

What are you guys talking about? All of my May offers are up. Free waffle maker on May 10th too! Can't wait.

I agree. Having approximately 2.5 hours to drive round trip, not having to pay for food ever is a huge bonus. If I don't get the 10 points a week, I will most likely just go to the more comfortable Mohegan and get the 2 points per hour and use it on gas. I would not be surprised to see a decent number of others join me as well so hopefully there not cutting the promos for the 10-40 hours per month poker-only players, it would be bad for the 1/2-2/5 games.

I was at the table when that happened, I had the pokerstars sweatshirt on. I thought it was very funny when you two were bashing each other about who's ass was better. She even went up to me later and told me how crazy you were. I found that a little ironic after hearing her past poker fights.

Be back Sunday for my free binoculars.