whats your fav?

Quesadillas over there are pretty good especially for under 7$ each

Yeah, probably the quesadilla was the best, tacos also worth a try perhaps. That was my first time eating pupusas, don't know if it's the food or the execution, not that exciting. Tried the fried rice and beans side were nothing special at all.

The chips and guacamole were also very good but you have to try pretty hard to mess that up.

I should note they charge $.50 extra for sour cream for the quesadillas it's pretty standard for that to be on the side with it just about everywhere else

I really liked the sushi and mexican place. The pupusa was pretty good. It's not amazing, but for the price it's good. And you don't feel like dog **** after you eat it - like I did when eating at phillips.

Quesadilla was also tasty and I got a side of guac which was also good.


Sushi place was absolutely fantastic but a little pricy for what you get.

Hi all, I'm (kind of) new here... last visit was around 2008

I have played a lot at private games and some casinos in the UK. Moved to America a few years ago - haven't played anywhere yet, nor ever played in a US casino. I have read a ton of pages in this thread, but have some questions I'd appreciate if anyone can answer. I'm mainly looking to play 1/2, or 2/5 NLH cash games.


1. Tips to the dealer? I understand there's a table rake, but is it customary to tip the dealer? If so, what's a typically amount?

2. Food/Drink/Tips - What's the protocol, for example, ordering a hotdog and/or soda to the table. Cost? Do you tip the waiter?

3. Can my wife play at the same table? - My wife and I both want to play some cash games. Can we play at the same table? If we join the waiting list together, can we request seats at same table? Are there any rules or policies that disallow us playing together? I guess friends play together all the time, and don't see why a spouse would be any different, but the risk analyst in me understands there's likely a higher potential for collusion or whatever. Anyway.... any info on this would be appreciated.

4. Can you observe/watch tables play? - If I'm killing time while waiting, or if I go broke and want to watch my wife continue playing, is this allowed? Or is it strictly players only in the table area?

5. Bravo live/waiting list - If I understand it correctly, I need to initially be physically in the casino to register with the casino, then I can use my member number(?) to register on Bravo?
Once I'm set up on Bravo, could I add myself to a waiting list before physically appearing in the casino? If there's a massive waiting list, and I have an hour drive to get there, it'd help if I could get a head start at getting a seat.

6. Waiting times at weekends for 1/2 NLH - I have yet to visit the casino, but over the last few weeks I've randomly checked Bravo to see what cash tables are going. Always lots of 1/2, and 50-100ish players on the 1/2 wait list. Can you give me any info on how quickly the players move up the list? Like if I was #50 on a Sat afternoon, what's the best guess at how long it takes to seat me?

Thanks!

1. Tips - typically $1-$2 is sufficient. Anything more is up to you - unless you hit some bonus, I would think 1% is more than sufficient for that

2. Food/drink - same $1 tip to the waitress for service and can use players card to pay. I just walk to the cafe as I like stretching my legs

3 & 4 - yes. No rule against playing with wife as long as you're not sharing your hands with each other. Might get folks saying one hand to one player if you rail her but usually it's relaxed

5 & 6. You can call in for 2/5. For 1/2 I think personally registering at casino is the only way. Wait time is usually an hour if you're #50 on the list.

1. Tipping is completely up to you. There's a giant thread debating what's appropriate, but most people will throw a buck in for most pots. Don't feel obligated to give anything if you only take it down with a preflop raise or win a tiny pot on the flop or if the dealer is making errors and/or has a bad attitude. Maybe consider giving 2-3+ if you win a huge pot or if the dealer is being exceptional. Dealers make a meager hourly wage and rely mostly on tips to make a living here.

2. I don't order food from the table myself, but I've seen many others do it. I believe you can pay with comps on your players card if you built up some hours, or just pay with cash or whatever. Tipping the server something would be appropriate.

3. You can play at the same table as your wife. People play against friends/spouses all of the time. Can't really police that anyway, but don't collude. It looks really bad if she's betting and you're raising to fold everyone out and then you both check it down.

4. You can watch tables you're not playing at and I've seen people's girlfriends pull up a chair behind and sit and watch. Other players at the table have the right to ask you to leave though if you're bothering them but it shouldn't be a problem.

5. This place allows you to call ahead to put your name on the list for some games but not others. You can call ahead for 2/5 NL, but not 1/2. If you don't call ahead, when you arrive just go to the registration desk and put your name on the list for any/all games you want. You can also electronically sign in at the touchscreen kiosk just outside of the poker room to the right below the stairs if you have a players card. You can't actually sign up for anything on the bravo app but you can view which games are going and what the waiting lists are.

6. Waiting times should be short unless the room is completely full. This place does a good job of being properly staffed. The room only seems to fill up late in the evenings on weekends or if there's an insanely good promo going or a big tournament upstairs. Bravo will tell you what/when the promos are, but promos don't typically run Fridays or Saturdays because the room will be close to full anyway.

Doing anything to make guests at a casino think about the value of $0.50 seems incredibly -ev to me.

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What is the right thing to do? Was it handled appropriately by floor...by player?

So odd thing happened at the Satty for WPT last night. Play started with 19 runners on 3 tables IIRC. Play is in Level 3 I believe. Tables were out of balance 7,7,5 for whatever reason. Table 3 Seat 8 gets busted with 2 pr over 2 pr and rebuys into Seat 9 early in the level. Later in Level 3, the new dealer notices that she is missing a grey 5k chip for the add-ons for new entries in her rack, tells supervisor and supervisor says they will look into it...play resumes.

A few minutes later Seat 9 calls for Supervisor. After the hand was complete, Seat 9 says he won't play further until supervisor comes to table. Supervisor shows up and Seat 9 says the missing 5k chip is in play at the table and he knows where it is without saying anything else. Supervisor says they are looking into it but to continue playing 5 handed. Player insists there are an odd number of 5k chips in play and that there was only one exchange of 5ks when Seat 8 (he) busted out. Floor says play on and walks away.

Seat 9 insists with floor that this small trny 3 tables and Table 3 being 5 handed should be paused, clock stopped, and the extra 5k chip (starting stack is 20k) should be resolved/removed before continuing. Floor claims they have regulations to abide by and play should continue. Seat 9 says if action persists it will be a mess trying to back things out and presses for a pause in the clock. Floor finally relents. Seat 9 offers to point out where the extra chip is, but Supervisor says no thanks and that cameras will figure it out. Most everyone has figured out that the extra chip is in Seat 2's stack as he has 3-5k's give him a starting stack of 25k, but he just sits there saying nothing.

During the clock stoppage Seat 1 suggests counting the stacks at the table and sure enough we have an extra 5k on the table.

It took 10 minutes for the cameras to verify that Seat 2 was indeed the player that was given an extra add-on 5k chip. Seat 2 does nothing this entire time. Supervisor calmly walks over and takes 5k chip from his stack and puts it back in dealer rack and asks play to resume. Seat 2 gets upset that Supervisor took the 5k chip without an explanation and is irritated and says he did not know/understand what had been going on the last 15 minutes even while we had stopped the trny for 10 minutes (rolling my eyes).

Poker gods were around...because Seat 2 imploded and Seat 9 busted him about 2 levels later.

I feel a trny 10 seated and with 10 tables of more probably should have played on, but something this small with 5 handed at this table and turbo-ish levels should have been stopped so Seat 9 did the right thing asking for a short pause in the clock. I also thought the Supervisor should have looked at the table stack immediately when the dealer reported the 5k chip missing. I was also thought Seat 2 could have resolved things on his own; hard to believe he didn't know. Thoughts?

They should get rid of the add on

Looks like 4-8 limit is now using white instead of blue. Wonder why they changed it now

They made the change about a week ago. Supposedly they were running out of blue chips by the end of the night because blue chips are often dropped both as rake and for the bad beat jackpot.

Another solution would be to buy more blue chips, but they went with this solution, at least for now. They said this is a test, to see how it works out. They might change back, but haven't decided yet.

I don't have a strong preference for white or blue chips. $4 is $4 and $8 is $8. The white chips do make the game play slightly slower (especially for some players who almost count out chips one at a time) - I'm a bit surprised the casino would select the option that slows down the game, and thus generates less rake. I heard it especially slows up the 4/8 Omaha hi/lo game since it takes longer to chop up the pot when there is a split pot. The pots have more chips in them, which takes longer for a player to stack ... but that can be kind of fun when you win a big pot.

I would imagine it would be players choice unless the cage refused to sell $2 chips to the players, but I don't play a lot of limit so I don't know if that is happening. I saw the remaining players on a 4-8 game upstairs playing with white chips (someone was coloring up 9 racks of white) and it looked pretty awesome with all those chips on the table, but I'd imagine it would get to be a pain pretty quickly with that many chips.

EDIT: Daveopie actually knows the answer :-). I still think it looked cool.

Limit games tend to play better with a 4 chip/8 chip structure. This is exactly the same structure as 20/40 with red chips. I hate the $2 chips so I like this change.

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Played 4-8 limit for about 5 hours. I saw 7 fills. Slows the game a little bit.

I was seat two.

I didn't say anything because I had no idea how this situation should be handled. The dealer made it clear that there could be no resolution until the supervisor returned. And the supervisor made it clear she wasn't doing anything until the video review was done, which was started when the dealer flagged the issue before the players noticed.

There really is nothing any of the players could have done to resolve the situation but wait. Yes, the players all had theories and ideas about what should be done, but removing someone's chips when there is a conflict is the casino's responsibility, as well as explaining to everyone why those chips have been removed or dealing with a cheater if appropriate.

If the extra 5K was in my stack, and not Seat 1 (who also had a extra 5K chip), and it was there due to a dealer mistake, I expected the supervisor to explain that after the review, remove it and move on.

When I purchased my add-on, it was via a three way transaction with Seat 1, myself and the dealer. Given that Seat 1 and me in Seat 2 were both involved in the 3 way transaction with the dealer when I purchased the add-on and we both had a extra chip in our stack when the complaint was made. Waiting for the review seemed to be the reasonable and the safest option for me, as player new to ML at a table of what appeared to be regulars.

The argument between the player and supervisor didn't provide explanation for how the chip might have ended up in one of our stacks. The initial assumption was cheating. So the supervisor asked security to review the video.

The floor walking away without engaging the table or stopping the tournament confused everyone. I don't have the tournament experience you do, so being placed in the middle of a contentious situation that caused the tournament to stop was confusing and very concerning. Insinuation that I, or someone at the table might have cheated also made me nervous. Discussion from the table about removing chips from my stack as the "solution" also made me uncomfortable without the supervisor offering clarification/resolution. And if the chip was in my stack, I hoped to have the review clarify as best as possible that it wasn't a attempt to cheat.

I was anxiously waiting for the official clarification from the supervisor to set the record straight so we could move on. Besides Seat 1, no one said a word to me. No one from the floor ever spoke to me. The dealer didn't say anything to me. Nor did the player who requested the stoppage. And I was caught off guard when the supervisor returned, took a 5K chip off my stack and walked away without saying a word to me or the table and said "resume!"

I might as well gone to the bathroom for 15 minutes, had this entire incident flair up, video reviewed and 5K in tournament chips removed from my stack to return with no explanation of what happened. It would have been all the same. Because that's exactly how it happened. Despite actually being present, the casino didn't think it was worth the effort to explain anything to me before or after they took the action. Was the video review actually complete? Was I being accused of cheating? Was it a dealer mistake?

Yes, I asked for an explanation of what they determined happened because they didn't offer one to anyone. I too paid real money to play in the tournament, the casino deciding that chips should be removed from a customers stack without explanation is baffling to me.

After she walked away I asked "Can you explain what happened?" The response was very curt. I think it would have been reasonable to offer something along the lines of "Sorry you were mistakenly given this chip by the dealer. We are going to return it so we can resume play" or "video shows that a extra 5K chip was mistakenly given to the player at table 41 when add-on's were purchased, we are removing the chip now and will resume play" before taking the chip from my stack and walking away.

The basic idea of customer service seems absent from Maryland Live and the whole thing made me nervous as a new player to the casino. The way it was handled reinforced concerns I have with Maryland Live staff taking actions that harm newer/weaker players at the benefit of regulars, such as encouraging a unfair chop when I had 70%+ of the tournament chips at another tournament final table.

That said, I hope to improve relations with management and look forward to sitting with you at another tournament.

What's the status for the signups for the freeroll tournament that is to be held next month? A cash grinder told me last week, that he was sure all of the spots would be taken on the first day of sign-ups (the 15th). I thought that was overestimating the number of people that would sign up on day one. If each flight takes 200 people before going to a waitlist, are any of the flights full at this point?

Thx,
Shju2

Prior to the 2pm sign-up window this afternoon, the most popular flight was Saturday's with 123 entries. They likely will all fill, and soon.

Sign up available to qualified players every day:

7am to 10am
2pm to 6pm
10pm to ... 1am? Sorry, not sure on end time on that one.

There's a kiosk outside the poker room where you can swipe your card and get an update on how flights you qualify for.

GL


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How did you get the extra chip?

I don't think there was anything nefarious about it at all. No one accused Seat 2 of cheating. It was pretty clear the dealer accidentally gave Seat 2 and extra 5k chip at the start of the trny. And the reason Seat 1 had four 5k chips is because he knocked out Seat 8. Everyone else had two 5k chips....Seat 2 had three 5k chips and had not won a large pot since the start.

The situation simply needed to get corrected before proceeding.

I will say this: everyone at the table knew what was going on because we were talking about it for 10 minutes while video was being reviewed, so Mr. Pony's claim to be oblivious is suspect.

And regarding the other tournament, Mr. Pony can only blame himself for accepting less than an ICM chop heads-up with 70-% of the chips in play. To blame the staff is silly.

Just wanna say thanks to MDL for heavily increasing security presence in the parking garages. I've never had an issue but have heard horror stories and it's nice to see at least two security officers patrolling the area on my walk back to my vehicle.

I didn't take the chop. But I didn't appreciate the staff walking past the table every few minutes encouraging it. There are other issues at play other than "the player should have known better."

I understood what likely happened with the extra chip but the floor needs to communicate the ruling and "resume" is not a appropriate communication when removing chips. Your point seems to be that the floor didn't need to say anything, my point is they always need to say something. So we just differ on that.

The floor can explain to a single player that acting out of turn requires them to sit out X number of hands, they should explain why chips are being removed from a table after stopping the entire tournament. It's really that simple for me.

I wasn't heads up. There were at least 7 players at the table when this started. And as I said, I didn't take the chop. You seem to be making a lot of assumptions. Just ask if you want me to clarify something about any of the situations I've discussed.

What's the 2/2 plo action like during the week? Thinking of going down Monday through Thursday next week.

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