I'll take the over. As much as you'd like.

What time does the anniversary slot play get added? I just looked on my card and it isnt there. I havent played in about 3 weeks if that makes a difference

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I think you have to load it on to your card at a rewards kiosk.

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Wait are you really saying the t-shirts aren't fugly? I mean the gold blouses are bad but these are even worse.

If we have to have the t-shirts can we take a vote on who has to wear them? Some of the "lumpy" dealers seem pretty uncomfortable. And really the servers who look good in the t-shirts looked better in their regular uniforms.

This is correct. As you need to choose between slot play/table play you need to go to the kiosk.

Mike, can we make 2/5 or above games 9 handed?

Also, can people form a group/list for mixed games (MD approved mixed games) and approach the floor to be accomodated?

we are currently experimenting with 9 handed 2/5 games as of 3-1. We'll see how it goes.

We can try and accommodate specific games and lists when possible

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Mike

I'm disappointed that the bounties Maryland Live insists on have now spread to the monthly 6-max tournament as well. This was an absolute favorite of mine, but I won't be playing in it as long as it's a bounty tournament. (Fwiw, I also prefer it running on a weekday, as used to be the case)

And I fully understand that the changes you've made to this tournament must make the most sense for your bottom line, so I don't expect it to change. But it'd be a nice surprise if it did.

Where did you hear it's a Bounty Tournament?

That's an error on Bravo. Being corrected as I type

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Mike

Bravo says the 6-max this Sunday is a bounty. After double-checking it, I now see that it's a part of the WPT Deepstack series, and not a regular MDL tournament. My apologies for the poor reading comprehension. Does the monthly MDL 6-max still run?

Didn't realize you'd already responded before my last post. Thanks, Mike! Do you have plans to run this monthly like you used to?

Sunday at 11:15 this month and we'll try and make it a regular event

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Mike

are the 2/5 games here always this nitty or am i just looking at a bad sample . And why do people not raise AK pre flop? to get high hand?

I never raise AK pre flop because it's not even a pair.

Mike, does hand for hand play in your tournaments always result in two minutes being run off the clock for each hand? Is that the standard TDA rule? I do not like it.

You'd rather encourage the short stacks to tank even longer and burn thru a whole level only getting to play 4-5 hands?

How does keeping the clock running, rather than stopping it and running off 2 minutes per hand, encourage short stacks to tank longer?

First of all, under normal circumstances, when you play live poker, you are expected to play on average around 30 hands per hour. That comes down to.... 1 hand every 2 minutes. So taking 2 minutes of the tournament clock sounds about right, although it should be noted that when you are in the late stages of a tournament and with the antes being in play, it's a bit of a headache until they are collected so that slows the pace somewhat. You could in fact be getting 25 hands per hour.

Tournaments go hand for hand in order to provide an equal field and deter short stack tanking. Short stacks being on the verge of both the money and getting knocked out tend to engage in stalling tactics. The logic is that some other guy playing on a normal pace of hands will get knocked out first and also that the blinds which kill their stack will take longer to reach them.

Since a hand under the best circumstances takes at least 2 minutes on average to complete, having a couple of shortstacks tank prolong average hand length even longer.

All in all, this isn't a spot where the casino is screwing the average player. Quite the opposite.

In all of our events, we do. When the WPT is here, we do not. Recently at Bay 101, they played I think 19 hands in almost 2 hours when they were H4H. In daily tournaments, that wouldn't be fair to the players. In an event like Bay 101 or any WPT event, the structure is typically much better than you would see in poker room's normal tournament operations.

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Mike

That makes sense. Thanks.

?? They won't be tanking/stalling no matter how hand for hand is done. Anyway, Mike's way of doing it makes sense so it's all good.

Hey Mike, what is the rule for this scenario? It happened in one of your tournaments a few days ago:

Heads up on the river. Player A bets and Player B calls. Player A mucks. Does Player B have to show?

In this situation, in a tournament, B does not have to show

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Mike

huh? why the game specific response?
in cash games, B doesn't have to show either.

so in what type of game does B have to show?

Comp dollars can be used at Prime Rib at a $1/$1 ratio correct? Just need to show card and ID?