If nothing else, I would like to see a 4/8 game if they can't start a 6/12. This would also use the $2 chips.

the 200bb max buy is definitely nice for for the 2/5 plo...especially considering it's straddled half the time anyway. good work!

Agreed. I was in the game yesterday for about 6 hours and it was incredibly live. Hopefully that 1-2 PLO gets goin so there are more people to move up to 2-5.

For some staff reason?
The system that displays the names for call-ins needs to have a new feature displaying who are call-ins to the players waiting. When you see 13 names for a game 8-10 of them could be call ins. We'll start a game heads up if someone wants but most do not. Many players are very picky and only want to play when the game is full. Some don't realize that if the game just starts that it will fill up.

As you say Magoo we are trying to kill the game.....come on....
Anyone is allowed to voice thier opinion but sometimes I wonder why yours is always negative. I would understand your point if you said something like you asked them to open the game and the floor staff said no but that would never be the case....

ne1 want to play heads up?

I'll be heading down to the shoe from the north side of Chicago on Friday morning. I'd like to get there early (9:30ish). I'm guessing the poker room will be dead that early but I have free slot dollars to burn before I play anyway.

1) Given the morning rush hour, which road is better/worse from the north side? LSD or 90/94?

2) I guess 3/6 LHE and 1/2 NL be going in the morning. Will 6/12 get going during the day?

3) What are the games like on the electronic tables these days? Stakes? Worth trying once? Flipaments?

4) Who else will be drunk before noon in the poker room?

Maybe a TR will follow...

Jeremy

I guess you did read my post about the call-ins on the list and appreciate that you recognize the problem. I did ask if they were going to start a 6/12 game on Friday . This was about 4:30PM. This did receive a shrug of “don’t know”. You know the rest of the story.

I might add that no one at the desk was rude. Just overwhelmed.

What seems to take place and I’m not totally sure about this is - People ask for 6/12 and are put on the list and yes they do get into other games. It would be better if when they get into another game they are asked if they still want to be on the 6/12. Also, the desk is so busy getting 1/2 and other games started that the 6/12 list just sits for a long time as names are added. This is just an observance. In other words it would be nice if that game is promoted a little. Or if an interest list is started for 4/8 and promoted. I think on the weekends especially it would catch on.

It seems the 3/6 and 6/12 are used as way-stations to other games. I think that’s why there are always seats open in the 3/6. Maybe the list should be kept longer for the 3/6 so that if one of the way station persons leaves the game there will be someone to fill it. I actually would rather see 4/8 instead of 3/6.

And NO,(sorry) I don't like a short game.

this makes me laugh

"Negative"? THE STAFF AT HORSESHOE INDIANA ARE ALL, GENERALLY, VERY NICE PEOPLE!! That is a POSTITIVE remark about Horseshoe, Hammond.

That "podium" / "sign-in desk", where staff faces the casino floor, and CAN'T SEE THE POKER ROOM, when calling names to be seated, speaks volumes about the poker operation at that Harrah's site. The construction of that podium is a mistake, plain and simple.

I am just about done, making posts about Horseshoe, Indiana. Actually, I don't have any more "criticisms" to make. I've posted them all.

BTW. You ("RAISE IT") more or less opened up yourself and the joint, for my posts, by coming in here (B&M Forum). You were bound to attract a person such as myself. You have to accept the "bitter with the sweet".

Your place of employment is an impersonal, corporate entity. The comments I have posted, can't "hurt" a coporation's "feelings", because it has none. I don't "love" your joint. It is the business of Harrah's to separate people from their money. It is my job, TO KEEP MY MONEY. Nothing personal, just objective reality.

Come on Randy,
Simon is solid right?
Jello is a solid right?
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Usually LSD to the Ryan FTW. The Kennedy and/or Edens, especially inbound, are almost always thicker than LSD during the morning. (Exceptions for construction or accident on LSD, obv.)

You're right about 3/6 and 1/2 NL; the 6/12 is a crapshoot IMO. The 6/12 crowd is pretty nitty on average, so that game is prone to breaking or non-running more than most when the casino isn't full. Jeremy might have a more exact idea of what the probability of it running before the rush is.

Last time I checked, the stakes were a bit lower than in the room proper. The robot tables seem to be used mostly by local crustbags who enjoy the fact that you can smoke at the table. Use only if no seats are available in the regular games, IMO.

Alas, not me. I won't be there until Saturday.

When at the Horseshoe last week for the 20/40 I was surprised to see a 30/60 limit game going. I immediately jumped in but the game only lasted another hour or two and everybody went down to the 20/40 game.
Has the 30/60 game been running at all?

that was the first time. We also had 60/120 running for a little bit last week.

I think that if you have a good and consistent shorthanded rake structure, you might find people more willing to play short games to get them started. Something like $1 for 4-handed or less, as well as $3 for 5 or 6 players. It seems like now (and I'm certainly not a regular), you feel you have to negotiate for lower shorthanded rakes with the floor and then each dealer that comes in doesn't believe you.

Is the 60 something likely to go in the future, perhaps on the weekends, or is there ever a chance of getting a 1-2 game off the ground?

It really depends on the players. We'll spread whatever they want. We've spread 100 - 200 before.

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Usually the reason the 60-120 goes is from the 40-80 getting short handed and they raise the limits.

That is roughly what we use when asked for a rake reduction. The dealer will automatically take $3 for 5 and 6 players. Have you ever been playing 3 or four handed and asked for a rake reduction and been turned down? The supervisors are instructed to give a rake reduction that is less than $3 if the game is short handed and in jeopardy of breaking.

Some floor people (in general-not the Horseshoe) dont seem to understand that the hands per hour goes up in a shorthanded game-and if you dont reduce the rake the game is unplayable.

What is the rake for 3-4 handed?

I think what he's asking for is an automatic rake reduction like at Ameristar. There, I don't think you need to ask the floor, the dealers simply reduce the rake on their own when it gets short. When it gets to 5 or less, I believe the dealers go down to a $1 rake by themselves.

The dealers told me they're supposed to take automatic rake reduction at HH. I think some of them forget, is all.

are there any tournies running during thanksgiving weekend or is there a regular tourney schedule up

they don't run tourneys. it was only for the wsop circuit

Tourneys will be coming shortly(Hopefully). Raise It will expound further.