You and others here really need to stop assuming what I believe. I never said there was a conspiracy with MD Live stealing from the bbj fund. I said that if MD Live wants to silence those that do believe such a thing, make the numbers public. What you and others read into my beliefs based on my comments is your own deal.

Read what I said. You brought up neutral parties. I asked you to name one that wasn't the state as they are not neutral.

Guys complaining about tournament options... I've heard from good sources that MD Live is planning a tournament series in March. This has all but been confirmed by multiple dealers reporting that they're not allowed to take vacation. I didn't get much for details because nothing was final but I was told that I would be happy and that structures would should be better than the daily tournaments.

My expectations are something along the lines of what DP runs with some smaller guarantees that they know they will reach and a couple higher buy-ins on the weekends. Probably nightly satty's to make sure numbers get there. Again, that's just my guess but I'm sure Mike will let us know pretty soon so we can all help him with some free marketing via word of mouth. This is also new territory for Maryland so I'm sure there might be some delays getting it approved by the state prior to announcement.

We're ready when you are Mike

There are people on here who don't believe there is a reserve of BBJ money yet you mock one of the few people who make valid points about the reserve? Yeah that makes sense.

If anyone on here doesn't believe there is a reserve of money from the collected BBJ funds then you don't understand 3rd grade math. It's that simple.

Like several people mentioned, it's most likely a fat stack and hopefully we get some great promotions coming up to give back to the players and they don't hold onto most of it until the Horseshoe opens.

This should not be news to anyone and shouldn't have to be defended or a taboo subject either. It's common sense and personally I think the BBJ should be much higher but I'll never hit it so I prefer to keep the lines of communication open for more Promotions.

Why don't we try to give suggestions on some possible promos they can do. The "Flopped" promo was cool. Any other great promo's people know of from other poker rooms? With so many tables and 2 floors, High hand promo's would be tough. What else could they do?

Here's to looking out for the little guys!!!!

I've heard people complain that the mega will never get big because of the mini, but I think the mini is great for business. People can realistically hit it and they are always excited to win money. Its fun and attracts more people. No one cares about a mega that can't be hit that just continues to build unless its something like the caesars properties that pay everyone in the room a percentage of the hit. That would be cool.

Just F.Y.I. The mini bad beat hit last night around 10:30. I believe the hands were quad 7's vs a straight flush. It hit on table #4 - 4/8 limit table. Not sure on the payouts.

It's a concept that became known on 2p2 way before my time, you can find the original thread in the archives -- the gist of it is that you can add a negative to a positive (e.g. starting with a range of only AA and adding 32s) and sometimes the result will be a greater positive; not because of the math, but because they were added to make two parts of a whole.

I'm not sure the numbers aren't public. They're being audited by the state - maybe you should call the auditors up (listed above) and ask them if they can disclose the numbers.

Anyone going to the Bose event this coming Thursday? Or the super bowl party on Feb 2? both events have free open bar and food?

I am undecided especially after the NYs eve debacle.

Do you know when it started yesterday? How long did it run?

What is the Bose event?

Started 8 handed around 330 - not sure how late it went.

Game started again today around noon.

Just FYI I just moved a bunch of posts speculating about the future of MD poker to the Maryland Regional Communities thread here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/20...yland-1265087/. If you have any questions or comments please PM me or post in the Moderation Discussion Thread.

After being at the Borgata for a couple of days, is there any way we can crank up the overall brightness of the MDL room? The room is way too dim for me.

Agreed....always hated the heatlamp style lighting at CT and MDL.

is there a special event going on at the casino tonite?

got there at 7pm. there was a LONG line to get into the garage.
finding parking was much harder than usual for a sat nite.

walked into the casino. they had 4 lines open instead of the normal 2 to get people into the casino faster. and it was still backed up.

when I left at 10pm, they still had 4 lines going into the casino and it was still backed up.

The Bose event is being held in Rams Head, where ther are giving away and raffling away some Bose products. This Thursday from 730-830 i think. They will have free open bar and light food.

It was a packhouse last night and I think b/c of the extended holiday. When I left at 2 AM the live band was still playing at Rams Head and cars were still circling for parking spaces.

Played some amazing 5/5 PLO at table 24 last night and it was just a bit too stressful for my bankroll. The highlight of the game was around 1 AM when seat 3 pot 14K with a K high flush draw and seat 9 called and lost. Seat 3 took down the 30K pot and just like business as usual.

As for the lighting, we do need brighter lights especially when u r sitting around the corner it's a bit hard to see without getting up.

I don't play slots but did use the $ 15 free slot as a gold member and won $ 50 while waiting for my games to be called. Yeeha..... That was the hightlight of my day.

This is misleading. Only 522.50 goes to prize pool.

$50 to the house
$27.50 to the dealers (players fee)

Is the tournament clock right on the bravo? It says there are 100 entrants and only 53 player remaining and they are only in level 1. If this is the case, I think I will be up in a few minutes...haha.

Not really. Every tournament has a % for the dealers. This one it's 5%, and it's disclosed on the structure sheet

It might be how it's generally done, but it's still misleading. A lot of people assume the first, larger # represents "prize pool". It makes more sense to group dealer fees and house fees together.

$550 IS the prize pool, but it's not the final pool that gets awarded. They just remove a dealer fee from that. It's structured that way so that the $550 number can be advertised. It's no different than hotels that have a resort fee - it allows them to advertise a lower number as the base charge. Or restaurants that charge an automatic 18% gratuity - they do it after the fact, they don't tack it onto each menu item and advertise the new price... likewise with tax. If people assume that the advertised number is the *final* number, then that's their own fault.

This is how they should to it. How hard is that?

Example from some other place

MEGA STACK
$560 NO LIMIT HOLDEM
DATES OF TOURNAMENT: January 18th, 2014 12:00PM (Registration opens 01.11 @ 12:00PM)
BUY-IN: $500
ENTRY FEE: $50.00
STAFF FEE: $10.00
TOTAL BUY-IN: $560.00

There are casinos doing it your way, there are casinos doing it the way MDL does.

It might have something to do with gaming regulations and/or taxes.