You have that card until the end of the NEXT period after you earn it (I.e. in your case, if you earned Royal this month, you'd have it until Oct 1 of next year). They can downgrade you at will if they feel you are abusing the card perks without supporting play. For example as an Ace, if you start earning like 2 pts/day but use the lounge 2x/day, use your 15% discount all the time, they may pull it from you. I personally only know of 1 person that this has happened to though, they lost their Royal due to "comp abuse".

So in your case, you need to earn 10k points by the end of the next period to maintain Royal? Otherwise you'll be reduced down to Ace?

Yep, I sure.

It's the same as it's been for several years now. On Oct 1st your tier points reset to 0. So whatever card you had on Sept 30 you'll have until the following Sept 30, because you will have earned it sometime during that period. I could drop all the way down to Wild if I don't earn 800 points next period. The only things that are different is on April 1 they removed the King card, dropped the Ace qualification to 2500 pts, and no more minimum points in the day to make them count. And of course the card perks were tweaked.

So in your case, to maintain your Ace, you need 2500 points from last Oct 1 to this Oct 1. Otherwise in Oct you'll move down to Crown or Wild.

I heard about that guy, Foxwoods always refers back to the fine print. The whole rewards tier system is just marketing smoke and mirrors. Don't get me wrong though, I would sure love a Royal card right about now.

It's definitely not worth what it used to be. Royals used to get free suites every night of the week. Now, like every other card, even Royals could possibly only get like 2 Mon-Thu rooms. King/Ace/Royal used to get guaranteed rooms to varying degrees. Now your card no longer matters.

You are way off base. saying it isn't even close and one could argue it isn't close in the other direction. The top tier for a Mohegan 2/5 reg pays $3.80/hr, comp rooms with 2pm checkout every night of the week INCLUDING Fri/Sat nights (max 3 consecutive), $10 daily food comp, daily access to open bar lounge, aggressive cash bonuses up to $1,000 max when hitting goals on way to hitting card requirement (totals around $1700 over 6 month period).

More games at Foxwoods at 500max, Deeper 800max at Mohegan so it depends if you can play deeper stack. Fewer games run but as more and more of Foxwoods 5/10 players change venues there have been running more of late. Also, when the 5/10 does go on weekends it's the best action game in the state (and pays $4.80/hr for top tier).

Each have their pros/cons however if you prefer deeper stack 2/5 (or few 200-300 short stacks) and would take advantage of weekend rooms than a full-time 2/5 player would likely find Mohegan the superior option.

Well, let's see. Per Bravo, at this moment, 7:15 pm, MS has only 9 tables open, 8 of 1/1 or1/2 NLHE, 1 2/4 LHE.
FW has 33 tables open, including 4 2/5, plus 5/10 NLHE, and 1/2 and 5/10 PLO, not to mention assorted high limit stud and LHE games.
Hard to be a 2/5 reg at MS if no one else shows up...

^^^ Right now, both casinos are friendly to players (max rake still $4, good comps). Relative to each other, there are some pluses and minuses to each, but they are light years ahead of every casino in the Northeast save Borgata.

Be happy there are two good casinos to play. Don't sweat which one is better.

Those numbers are incorrect. There were two 2/5's running at MS.

The old site would show you how many points you earned so for that particular day. Is that feature anywhere on the new site? Upon login I just see it says a card last used date.

Do I really need to know how many points I had, see how many I have now and do the math myself to see how many I earned while playing at the table?

There are lots of things wrong with the website right now. But at the moment it doesn't look like it shows this, no.

You can just ask a host or rewards desk and they'll look it up. But IMO anyone who cares about how many points they earned that day (for maintaining a certain average, or whatever reason) should already be tracking such things on their own, so could figure it out. You should see how elaborate my spreadsheet is

Anyone have any details on how long 25-50 nl has been running? Foxwoods site says one table is running right now..

You can also get points earned today from the kiosks.

Ah that's right. Also at any machine.

I think that someone who can hold down a full time job,mod a forum, and still put in enough hours to earn a Royal rating must be absolutely degene..., uh awesome.

1-800-GAMBLER

The new website is god awful! I've been trying all morning to make a July reservation, it keeps timing out.

Great weekend of plo last week, hopefully we will get that again this week.

We had a player leave with over 4k in the 1-2 plo game! Great action. Similar action in Sunday's 2-5.

Is third man walking correct that shows 5-5 plo game running since Monday?

Also, thinking ahead to Monday, do you think the way you play 1-2 nlhe will change for that day when the focus of players could be just on the $500 high hand bonus.

the Foxwoods website says

"At Foxwoods, we’ve got the largest poker room on the East Coast and it’s filled with every type of poker game imaginable. No Limit Hold ‘em, Hold ‘em, Stud, Omaha, HORSE, Razz—if you’ve got a game, we’ve got a table."

So you mean to tell me they spread 2-7 lowball, both single and triple draw? And they spread Badugi too? I find that hard to believe, but let's hear from you regulars. Are they lying, or does a casino REALLY actually run those games??!! Please tell me yes they do, but don't tell me they run them once every few decades.

And what about mixed games, what's the lowest limit mixed game they spread? How many games in the mix? Is 2-7 lowball included?

Thx for info.

If you read it on the internet it has to be true. Pretty sure that's the law.

Pretty sure the term "marketing" is just another word for "lie".

Every type of poker game imaginable!

Of course even if they did spread Badugi, they'd prob never get enough players to start it. I'm a dreamer I guess.

Well, perhaps just a bit of marketing hype above.
I don't know about 2-7, but they definitely will spread Razz, HOSE, HORSE, etc. Certainly 5-10 and higher.
I think I heard a few months ago that they were able to spread Badugi; maybe someone else can confirm or deny this.
Actually, FW is pretty reasonable about applying to spread new games, if the players request them and if there seems to be any reasonable demand. (This is how we got 2/2 and 5/5 PLO.)
In order to run a new game, they do have to apply to the Gaming Commission, which isn't a huge deal, but someone actually has to put in the work to do it. But I'm pretty confident that they would apply for 2-7 if enough players asked.

I have definitely played badugi here, may have also seen a 2-7 list once but am not really sure. Foxwoods can & will spread mix games as low as 2-4

I heard through the grapevine today that they are FINALLY going to allow "action out of turn" binding in cash games.

This should have been a rule since day 1.

Just has to go through MPTGC.