Mohegan Sun: The only place I've ever played 11 handed ... AT A FINAL TABLE!!

Pretty sure it was the same $300 weekend crap show. We told the floor we could all just go back to our regular two table seats since all 11 players remember where they were, but nope. They didn't trust us. Let's play on with a frigging 11 handed final table!

Turning away the players during the last flight of the holiday tourney after Xmas was horrible too. Players bought in like 30 minutes late and never got seated as they didn't allow alts to come in late a couple levels after registration closed with starting stack still being 25bb. They just sent them home. Guessing it cost them another 400+ buyins because it probably happened in the another three flights as well.

They have a 600 100k in late March. Same re-entry system.

I love how they make the last flight on a Thursday and day 2 on Friday so anyone with a 9-5 would have to take 2 days off instead of Friday and day 2 be Saturday idk must not want to take dealers from the Saturday morning cash games I guess

The $600 is interesting. Looks like they're open to diversifying their tournament offerings. They have so much extra room now, that it really shouldn't be a problem to have these big events on a Saturday. Not to mention it would drive so much foot traffic to the cash tables and nearby slot machines on a weekend.

So again, has anyone been playing the new Saturday tournament? How have the field sizes been?

They don’t have enough staff (and floor space) for big tourneys and cash to run at the same time. They clearly prefer to cater to cash games. I’m assuming they pull in more rake there.

I played the Saturday $350 once this month and it had around 170 entrants.

Three weeks of Saturday $350 tourney numbers about 211, 175, and 148. Roughly.

Interesting drop in attendance each week. I think this will change to a $250 or less buy-in soon. Not sure how sustainable a weekend $350 is with the weak fields blowing through their buy-ins at twice the rate of before, and the the FW weekend competition. I like the larger buy-in once a month and maybe two or three times a year doing a little 4-6 tournament series

What is the spread in stakes for live cash here? I guess it starts at 1/3? How high do the games run?

Starts at 1/2 which is $400 cap. 2/5 $1k cap always runs, usually with multiple tables. 5/T $2.5k cap runs regularly. There is 2/5 PLO regularly as well.

Not bad. Thank you! Cap = max I can buy in for?

Correct. You will still find lots of short stacks at 1/2, but not very many in the higher stakes games.

Ty again

I played the Monday and they had 7-8 alternates before they decided to add a 7th table to the tournament. They clearly didn’t want to “waste” a dealer on the mtt.

So you pay the extra $5 for the dealers (for extra chips) and then they understaff their dealers.

Even in an empty room with dealers they were still hesitant to add another table/dealer.

How many status points do you get per hour playing 1-2nl, 2-5nl, 2-5plo and 5-Tnl?

2,3,3,4

That sounds like momentum dollars,..

Do we know what tier status is ?

AND they make you play 10 handed. All so they can keep the 1/2 games opening. It’s such BS.

We’re paying a big rake and can’t even get treated as equals. No cash games are 10 handed. It’s not like there are 500 entrants and they’re trying to accommodate as many as possible. It’s a freakin standard weekend daily with 150-175 entrants.

How bout this…make 1/2 games 10-handed. Why are we treated like such crap as tourney players here?

/rant

it's the same

Status and Momentum are the same, but the Dollars get tier multipliers.

So does the $350 have a dinner break now that it's every Saturday? Hopefully not....

Yes. Why would you hope not? Idk how you can navigate a FT at 9-10pm or whatever without eating dinner 🧐. I get way too cranky.

I eat throughout the day (bananas, granola bar, etc..). I prefer not having to play until 10pm, personally. The last two Saturday tournaments I played before they switched to the $350 ended around 8pm which was nice

Understand. Guarantee you are in the minority on this. Dinner break is a must for an all day tourney with 10min breaks.

I know, the longer levels definitely add up over time. Maybe 30min break would be better? I feel like a long break interrupts my mental flow state. At that point in the tournament it’s starting to get more serious.

No way to please everyone with something like this. At least now I know instead of showing up surprised

So how many entries did Saturday get? I'll be playing this weekend