The virus cares a lot about gatherings. Most people congregate to drink alcohol in small groups and likely without masks. I’ve never met up with friends to drink tomato juice, with or without masks.

Walked into the Poker Room today. All the tables had 4 chairs for players. They were building a long counter at the back of the room in front of the cashier cage, not sure what that will be for.

It does look like they are planning to re-open four handed.

No thanks, four handed is not for me for a plethora of reasons... if its for you enjoy... hopefully they will expand over time when its deemed ok to do so, until then I'll pass.

The long counter in back is for horse betting. There are 3 Automated tellers. It looks like they've removed at least 6 poker tables to make room, maybe more.

Belmont is Saturday

Mohegan Sun Update page this morning:

Race Book (reopening on Friday, June 19th)

I couldn't find any other details yet.

Who do you like?

I have roughly $1000 in momentum dollars set to expire in a week. I haven't been into Mohegan as I moved out of CT last year. I called and explained situation and asked if they would consider an extension given C-19 closures. I was told no...

Anything I can do to keep my points?

First, how did you find the expiration date for your Momentum Dollars?

Where did you move to? According to the Mohegan website:
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To be safe, this would need to be verified with someone from Mohegan Sun, but it sounds like a debit should qualify as activity (and therefore nullify "inactivity"). If that's the case, using any Momentum Dollars at any of those other properties should count.

And, if you can't get to any of those properties, you could try reserving any of the ticket or item promos. When you don't show up to pick up the ticket or item, they will charge you a number of Momentum Dollars for reserving and then not showing up. That debit might count as activity - and, if it came down to this, what do you have to lose by trying?

Of course, if you have any friends still in the area willing to go into the casino, you could mail them your card and have them stick it in a slot machine and play some petty cash. As long as they don't hit a jackpot, you should be fine.

Lastly, Mohegan has some online pretend slot games that claim you can get rewarded Momentum Dollars by playing them. I don't really have experience with those, but, if you can actually get a Momentum Dollar out of them, that should be "activity." https://mohegansun.com/play-online.html
FAQ says you need to collect 5,000 Loyalty Coins in the game to exchange for 1 Momentum Dollar. https://mohegansun.com/play-online/f...un-beyond.html

Thanks for info. I'm mailing a card to a friend. It's pretty scratched up though, so fingers crossed it'll even work.

I found out when they expired by calling in.

Many places even hitting a jackpot is no issue. The strictest I have seen is at least one p,ace wont pay out the jackpot until the card holder is present but they will keep it as an unclaimed prize for X period of time. Most that I have seen you just pull the card out and give the your id when they get there.

Any word on when the buffet or lounge may be opening? It sorta sucks that I can't use my choice credits. Anyone else who has leap or ascend status? I even give them action on the tables to try to maintain the choice credits but what good are they if I can't use them?

Poker will be back long before buffets. Non-zero probability buffets are gone for good.

Buffetts WILL reopen at least in some places. They may not be serve yourself but the will open. We have a couple of non-casino buffets open here though they do not allow customers to serve themselves.

Just saw that MS Pocono Poker Room is opening up THIS FRIDAY! 7 handed....

Have not played at the sun since February, and have zero comp points and zero choice credits available and as of today their offering me free rooms. sun to thur in oct and some mon to wed in nov and a few in dec.
Anyone else get offers or are they getting desperate.

Same here. I hadn't played there in maybe 2 years, so had 0 points/credits, and were getting rooms Sun-Thur, and Friday last week for some reason. So I booked that Thur and Fri comped, having never stayed there before I wanted to check the rooms out. Gave 0 play, as I spent most of the time over at Foxwoods. Of course now all future room comps are gone from the calendar.

Word to the wise - just stay away from CT casinos through this winter. Look at the recent Covid-19 red alert map and figure out what it has in common:



It's not worth the risk. Please be extra safe Casino employees

Mohegan shutting down restaurants for “maintenance” was just an excuse. There’s been big spike at Mohegan Sun employee wise.

People should be little more responsible and get tested regularly.

Not sure how many mohegan regs are on here but as we can see other regions are opening up poker and doing great numbers wise. I have it on decent authority that Mohegan HAS considered opening up their room but the concern is that they think they will get no business. This is as we know a TERRIBLE read on their part. We all know whoever opens first out of them, foxwoods, MA rooms and Twin will crush it at the beginning. MA rooms cant open because of the governor but the longer the CT rooms wait they are missing a huge opportunity. Point is maybe a few emails will push them to opening up sooner. Let them know there is a demand and tell them the other regions are doing great.

I sent one today. Cant hurt

I’m sure they’re monitoring their Pocono property closely. That reopened a week or so ago. Taking a look at Bravo there are 3 tables going with people waiting. I’ve been to Pocono on a football Sunday and the room was packed. They are offering 5 tables as per Bravo - 7 handed with plexiglass and masks required. So if they feel they can make money I’m sure they’ll open it up. I agree with you that the one that does it first will get the most business. Foxwoods has supposedly been successful reopening Bingo and there aren’t too many complaints. Poker is the only thing left to really open.

Foxwoods will open and take all of the action back like it's 2013

Heard from several Twin dealers that they were looking to reopen poker 8 handed but the RI gaming commission shot it down. Next proposal was 6-7 handed. As for demand, I agree that the first to open may be the only one to open. Would be surprised if Encore even bother taking blackjack tables out of the room to bring back poker.

What we need is some info spying to see if any work is being done in foxwoods and mohegan poker rooms