Looks like a parking management system similar to BWI.

The Jackpot drop averages out at slightly over $5/hour per player (at a full table).
A NL player can reasonably expect to recover 20-30% of that directly, over time, unless they hit a bad beat jackpot.
But, he can probably expect to indirectly benefit/profit more than he drops from the draw a promotion provides.

I'm a very new to live poker ( just 8 hours total!)

I have a question about high hand promos- specifically at Maryland Live.

The "Rules" prohibit "... slow rolling or slow playing to get to the next time period."

How much "slowness" can you get away with?

Recently, with the high hand at a straight flush and about 2:30 left, I flopped high quads (my first live quads!) and wasn't sure what to do.

I ended up just playing it out at normal speed because I wasn't sure how to handle it.

I'd love some advice from the veterans.

You can reasonably take about a 30 seconds per street, obv longer if some bets are going in. I would probably have tried to wait it out with 2.5 minutes left if I didn't think I would get paid within the hand

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I have seen people play a huge hand slowly so as to get to the next period. They got away with it. I doubt this rule is enforced regularly--the dealer isn't going to tattle.

On average a hand will take something like 1.5 - 2 minutes. Letting 2:30 pass after the flop would be noticeably slow but could probably be pulled off. I'd probably go for it if it was at least quad K or A. Certainly wouldn't try for that long with A full.

Some amount of stalling for the next period happens on a regular basis. Whenever you hear them congratulate the winner of the previous period and a new high hand for the current period that wouldn't beat it in the same breath there's a good chance someone stalled to get it to qualify.

It's prob like 3 an hour for 2-5 and less for 1-2 (drifter has different numbers but if you play tighter it will have less effect) I could use some high hands anyway

Thanks for the helpful replies.

I guess when I get more "seasoned" I'll be better able to think on my feet (my seat?).

Live casino poker has a lot more moving parts than sitting at home in my bathrobe clicking buttons.

I guess here's the bigger question: what's the penalty for slow playing? Do they kill the hand or just disqualify it for high hand?

Just disqualify it from high hand, you would never forfeit the pot

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Every time I go I park out near Longhorn. Its a quick walk in. Plus never have an issue finding a spot and its a straight shot out of there when I'm done.

What's wrong with parking in the north parking lot? It's a much, much shorter walk to the poker room.

I come in/out right there off Arrundel Mills.

The individual sensors say "PARK ASSIST."


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In other places, this is sometimes a predecessor to charging for parking. Reston Town Center recently installed a system like this as part of their plan to charge for parking. You use a phone app to pay for the spot. If the spot detects a car that has not paid, it alerts someone to ticket the car. Since it knows which spots are taken, it can also use the same app to tell you what spots are available. Live already had a system to identify how many spaces are available on each floor, which is really all you need most of the time to know where to park, although it appears to be disabled now.

Hopefully it's just a system like there Cosmopolitan in LV where it has red or green lights above each spot so you can look down a row and see the open spots easily.

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that would be WONDERFUL if you can see on your smartphone a map of the garage floor telling u which spots are open.
but I predict not worth the maintenance/upkeep/added complexity vs the benefit to md live.

in your example, you have to pay for parking which compensates the garage owner for the risks.
since it's free parking at md live...

It just cant be worth the cost to run an app like that. What do you do, drive around with the app up and hope that the real time updating works and/or that you even get service in the garage? The system at BWI just lights up red/green, easy to see from far away and not hard on the upkeep.

Dear Mike,

I'll give you all the money in Rapini's pocket if you can get the web site guys to put the tournament calendar back to the old format. This new thing is unusable.

Loony

Can Mike (or anyone else) advise how many points you earn toward free slot play playing poker per hour? Thanks!

100 points/hour.

600 points = $1.00 for free slot play or comps.


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Thank you!

Mike,

Can you have the Web page folks put the Poker Tournament payout structure back on the MD Live website?

Thanks

The new calendar format looks like it will probably bring random people from the casino into the poker room. That's good for everyone. It is a little harder to find information specifically about the poker tournaments but if it means I'll get to play against more craps players I'm fine with it.

Just a heads up on a situation that happened last night and a reminder to always pay attention.

A player was caught mid hand (pre-flop but after an open, 3bet, and 4bet) adding black chips to his stack when he had AA, before going all in. He was called out, hand was paused while tapes were reviewed and confirmed that he was cheating. The floor handled the situation well and ruled correctly imo in that the added chips weren't in play, his hand was still live, and the hand would play out. They escorted him out of the room afterwards.

However, seeing as how the last person to be caught doing something ****ty is back paying in the room I fully expect this idiot to be back very shortly. This was a very very regular 2/5 player. You can PM if you want to know who or just ask in the room as many people will know and will be letting others know.

I am confident this guy, and very possibly his acquaintances, have been cheating like this for a long time. It is important that we all pay attention not only to protect ourselves but to protect the recreational players as well. There is no way a rec player would have noticed this or called the guy out for it. It's our job as Regs/Pros/decent human beings to protect the integrity of the game and other players. And you don't have to catch them physically putting chips on the table, just be generally aware. I didn't see this particular scumbag put the chips on but I knew exactly how much he started the hand with and that did not include any black chips.

It's really disappointing that people who get caught doing this aren't permanently banned with no chance of return.