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Originally Posted by 413AceKing
This room has a very weird "reg" dynamic. Every time I play, I'm at a table where probably 6 or 7 players know each other very well by name. Obviously all of them are very regular. Overall, the tables are probably more reg infested than almost anyplace I've played before. The weird thing though is that they are mostly fun, laggy regs that are good and fun to play with. The games are still very good with all the regs.
I played at Foxwoods a few days ago and couldn't get 9ver how miserable the game was. It's seriously almost like they did an audition for fun regs, all the good ones were allowed to play at MGM while all of the miserable, nitty, and headphone wearers were only allowed to play at Foxwoods.
this so much
really like the crowds, fun group, last time i played a dealer was talking about 9/11 conspiracies and stuff and instead of it getting weird it instead became a fun kinda disagreement where everyone liked each other more so afterwards despite that people very different opinions on it all
and I definitely put a pause on "oh he knows the dealers/other players he's a reg should watch out for this guy" as the regs here seem more like guys who just want to have fun rather than learn to play well
there's one reg who takes forever, like every action he needs to pause for a min of 30 seconds
he kinda looks like the guy from halt and catch fire and he makes a big deal of tipping all the female dealers (but not in a creepy way just will tip females randomly but not with the men so you may know him
he's pretty insufferable to play with because he'll call a raise pre then call a 3 bet and then on an AQ7 flop out comes a standard cbet, other guy folds so it's a simple decision now heads up and he'll tank for 5 minutes for a $25 bet into a $40 pot, last time i called clock on him a bunch and got on his case and he acted confused like he wasn't using much time and everyone else lets it go cause they want him at the table since the reason why he's tanking is because he has T7o and he's deep in thought trying to figure out if he's good or not - not whether he should raise here and turn it into a bluff or something crafty but rather whether or not villain actually has an A or a Q or has something like K3 which what he plays and therefore he should call cause he's ahead.
last time he was really good for the first hour or so, to the point where I genuinely debated complimenting him for speeding up his play but was unsure if I'd come off as a dick saying that, but then he slowly transitioned into the tank mode later in the night so I think maybe he just gets tired and slows down
another guy took major offense when I gestured with my hand for him to move his hands so I could see his stack when we were playing a big pot, thought that was a bit weird, dude is actively covering his chips and mad dogging me and just made a big bet so I preferred to hand gesture which he understood and complied with but then after the hand thought about it a bit and got really angry about it about a minute later - didn't feel like it was a mental tactic or anything since I'm quite a bit bigger than him so he must have genuinely felt offended by what's a pretty standard move I've used and seen others use for years without any issue, it didn't really bother me just more puzzling than anything else and when you're sitting at a 1/2 game where you fold 2/3 your hands pre and it goes 5 to a flop then you have a lot of time to sit and contemplate
otherwise, I really enjoy playing there, it's a fun crowd and like you said, despite being reg infested, there's been very few players I've played with for over an hour and figured they knew what they were doing - definitely a few good players but it's still tricky making adjustments from asia - biggest adjustment I gotta make is to discount board textures when deciding whether or not to bluff, quite a few times I've gotten looked up on really wet boards cause a lot of these guys treat top pair like it's the nuts as well as having definitely ripped it in plenty of times with the nuts and gotten looked up by mid pair etc etc