Think you need to post if moving 2 spots or more away from blinds. Occasionally see this messed up and I don't care enough to say anything.

Some folks get right worked up over it though.

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Does anybody know the structure for the Saturday morning bankroll builder tourney?

Yes. It's online.

I notice 22% of the $65 buy in is rake. Is that fairly standard for Maryland Live tournaments and tournaments in general?

If you take the $10 dealer add on, it is even higher.

Remember, this is not online.

Tournaments are competing with live games for tables and dealers. The casinos look at amounts, not percentages. $10 vig for a tournament to them is very little even if it is a large percentage of the entry (unless it a turbo that will end quickly).

That makes a lot of sense. So if you're going to play this tournament, it's for fun, not for profit?

A friend of mine who only plays slots got an interesting email survey offering a free buffet. It was only several questions long. Those questions were something like:

Do you want to learn how to play poker?
Would you come by yourself or with someone else to learn?
In what setting would you like to learn? (Options were formal training session, champagne brunch, and other)

I guess it's promising that they're interested in bringing new people into the game. So maybe keep an eye out for a champagne brunch poker training coming soon!

Twice in the last hour 2 people have changed away from my table specifically to buy in for minimum to take money off the table to protect lucky huge pot scoops.

Tilts the hell out of me that they allow this here.


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This rule is good for the overall poker economy. If a losing player gets very lucky to run up a big stack the regulars who table change can only buyin for the table max instead of being able to bring their entire stack over and cover him. He'll have a much better chance of getting out of there with some of his winnings. The people or who are rat holing prob would either leave, pickup and return with min buyin after the allotted time or be locked up if this rule wasn't in place anyway.

Exactly, it amazes me how many pros and serious players can't see what's in their best longterm interests. If people never win they don't keep playing, let them take winnings home now and again.

I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with table selection as long as it's within the confines of the rules. I do respect venues who make rules that limit predatory behavior though and it's obv better for the game overall.

Mike, what's up with the dealers that seem hellbent on getting all the red out of their well at 1/2 tables? Having that $100-150 in red is way more useful than that much more green.

The situation in the garage right now is an absolute mess. They need to stop letting cars in. Gridlocked coming in and getting out with close to zero traffic control. You'd think the mall and Casino would be better prepared for high volume days by now.

Not to make light of this but I'm not sure why this surprises anyone - the garage has always been and will always be a disaster on days like this

I never park in the garage if I think its going to be remotely crowded, I park out by Longhorn and walk in. Have never had a problem.

Couldn't be all too much less surprised than I am. My lack of surprise is why I said you'd think they would be prepared for days like this and have some kind of better system in place.

Thanks for the heads-up! I will stay at the table I am at and not try to leave for at least a few hours.

No problem, that's my plan too. I'm sure the casino actually loves when people can't leave. Two people in the elevator where coming back in because they couldn't get out. Will probably be bad until 11 or so.

Valet is the nuts.

Why?

There's plenty of red already on 1/2 and 2/5 tables. Having green instead of red leaves more room for blue and white, which are always needed.

If I have to completely rebuy, it's really convenient because I don't really like playing a 8-12 chip stack. But more importantly are the players who will constantly rebuy $100 at a time and lose. So much better for them to have reds imo.


Except that column of the well doesn't get used for anything except red/green/black, very rarely some blue overflow, and that's my point, it's not in the way and is useful.

I asked the next dealer after I posted last night about it and he said he recently converted to be the same way because of how much red ends up back in there from the table. He's right, he started with ~$30 red and ended his down with $100+. This seemed consistent when I remembered to pay attention so it's whatevs

So get greens from the dealer and trade them with someone else for reds?

Really not trying to sound like i think this is a big issue but sometimes there isn't a well set up trader for the red or they don't like $25 chips or whatever other reason. Kinda like how asking the dealer to square up the table works a lot better than going direct.

No it's not like asking the dealer to square the table. This is you wanting to have your personal preference catered to.

You have a seat at the table, it's designated to be behind your cupholder. When people drift away, it intrudes on your designated space. That's a reason for the dealer to square the table - because other people are taking over YOUR designated, entitled space.

You don't have a designated chip color or stack size. You PREFER red chips. Fine. That's 100% on you and not up to the dealers to change what best suits them to support. They can call a chip runner for you to color you down, or color you up. Other players can make change for you.

You just *don't like* greens. And that's fine - but it's not the room's problem, and there are legitimate reasons why the dealer might not want a ton of reds in his rack. As you said yourself, over time they accumulate reds anyway, but what they especially need space for at $1/2 are blues and whites.

If the dealer has 4 white racks and 1 blue rack, that's only $200 in whites and $100 in blues, and he's only got one more rack left that can hold 60 chips plus lammers. So now he's gotta fit $500 more in chips in that last rack, which he can't do with $200 in red chips.

Everything about the way fills are done is asinine.