You are correct. Vegas casinos have the Nevada Gaming Commission and State Gaming Control Board to deal with and they ensure fair gaming practices, rules, etc. Hard Rock properties are owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida and follow their own set of rules and guidelines which is why you will often see a private table at the Hard Rock and not in Nevada. The Seminoles can basically do whatever the **** they want in regards to gaming practices including changing rules on card games, lowering payback percentages on slot machines, adjusting players comps and point balances, etc. without cutting thru all the red tape casinos in Las Vegas must deal with. Its a great gig for the Seminoles and its really a case of "My way or the highway".

Good work! Every time I show up on a weeknight the action sucks. Then I see Alex with a huge stack and you win 5 figures or whatever...WTF

This is twice now that I've gotten my stack up to $3k playing 2/5. Last time I never won more than $600 in a pot though. This time there was a $2,700 pot involved. Went something like this:
UTG limps, I'm UTG+2 w/66 and I limp, middle position makes it $25 (and the guy next to me was telling me what a donk he was), cut-off calls, Big blind calls, UTG calls, I call. Pot is now $125 Flop comes out:

663 with 2 clubs (guessing on the 3 but it was some sort of blank lowcard). UTG checks, I check, Original raiser bets out $30, CO calls, BB calls, UTG calls. Lol, what is with all this action. Figured somebody has a flush draw and everybody else has a pair. Maybe some donk is just has like AJ and is trying to hit his overcard. I raise and make it $80 or $90 thinking it should string everybody along. The original raiser calls, CO calls, BB calls, UTG calls. Lol, at all the action. Pot is now $530ish

Turn comes a non-club blank.

UTG checks, I make a small bet not wanting to scare away any draws or overpairs, I also wanted to make it an amount to where the short stacks are probably going to either shove or fold. I think I made it $130 to go. Original raiser calls, CO folds, BB calls, UTG folds. Pot is now around $1k.

River comes an Ace of spades, and I do a little happy dance. Pretty sure somebody has like KsQs. If it's was the original raiser I'm pretty sure he's going to call pretty much everything as the guy next to me was telling me what a calling station he was (he was actually complaining about it, lol). We both have around $700, and the BB has around $300 or so.

I go ahead and shove for $700. The original raiser thinks for about 5-10 seconds and then says "I call", the BB says "I know I'm beat, but I call". Lol, pot is now $2700.

I say "quads" and turn over my 6666. The guy with $700 behind actually had AA for Aces full on the river, AAA66. The big blind turns over Ks5s for the nut flush. How could I have asked for a better river card?

venetian != THR
las vegas != THR
Nevada/vegas law != Florida / Indian Tribal law

They can do whatever they want in this regard

Not sure how it can bring a flush?!? club club blank spade? KQs???? brings no flush

Really?

Either OP had a typo and the flop was 2 spades (or the river was Ac), or the guy with Ks5s called $700 with king high.

I'm gonnna have to go with the first choice.

Whoops, all black cards look the same.

The river was an Ace of clubs putting 3 clubs out there and the guy had Kc5c

And the guy with the flush only had $300 behind, the guy with $700 had Aces full.

Just got back from my first THR experience post 7/1. All the stories are true! I played $1/3 for about 2 1/2 hours. Great table, mid-50's gamblor kept donating $100 stack after stack. I bought in for $300, covering everybody. Couldn't get much going until I got into it with another big(ish) stack. I cover by a few bucks. I limp UTG+1 w/88, UTG+2 limps behind, villian in MP raises to $16. All fold to me and UTG+2 and we call. Flop K8x, I c/c, turn a glorious A, I c/r, get jammed on and scoop vs. AK. Wheeeeeeeee! A few more smallish pots won, followed by a small one lost vs. previous villian, and I cash out for $700. I would've stayed but the table was nitting up something fierce, and the weak players were only $100 behind.

I'm gonna grab a bite to eat, then possibly head out later to enjoy the drunkenness that is low-limit NLHE on a Friday night at the THR.

will probly get there around 10 tonight playing 5/10

2/5 is like printing money:

How many people usually show up for the Saturday 12:30 MTT? what's the average purse? How many places pay?I like asking questions?

Ahhh I remember having a roll like that, to all the young grinders, do not get a GF, and turn it into a wife, its -ev for your game.

In regards to the private table discussion.

In AC if you want to play heads up with someone (at least at the Borgata) and you want to bar other people from playing at the table, you have to pay time for all seats at the table.

Last time I saw two guys , HK and a young kid, get into challenge about whos got the bigger roll/peen fight they played 10/25 heads up. And the floor sat them in the middle of the 1/2 seats in the middle of the poker floor. Funniest thing in the world seeing these 1/2 players do a double take when they walked by the table with two stacks at $20K plus

10-13k imo? random guestimate?

Depends if other bills are hundos

: Be there around midnight. 2 uncapped 5/10 games in high limit room at Sarasota right now

2/5plo is going.

Fun 12 hour day at Hard Rock. Spent about 10 hours of it stuck about 400 on one of the tightest 1/3 tables ever in the world. For the final two hours I tried to tilt off some money in 2/5, but ended up profiting $260 on the day.

The 2/5 table was table 5-6, and there was one black gentleman that talked constantly, and criticized my play at one point. When I did it back to him, he got so angry that he was literally steaming. He looked like he was going to rip the table from the floor and kill me. I can go further into the story if 2+2 cares.

Anyway, lol Tampa.

Go on

how often does this run? How often does 10/25 NL go? How are the 5/10 NL games and does bigger run frequently?

Thanks :P

I just wrote out the whole long story and the browser crashed. I do not feel like re-typing it, but I guess I'll go through it very quickly.

The villain in question talked constantly, analyzed everything, and did the whole WSOP 5 minute tank before I fold thing. I got into a hand with another player at the table, and I doubled up through him.

Later, I doubled up through villain with two pair when he held one pair, and after the hand he claimed that the only reason he called was because of the "terrible" play I made against the other guy. I immediately demanded that he explain to me how my play was terrible, I was ahead on every street, and I was the aggressor. He basically just smiled at me and said sarcastically that I was right, and that my play was great. He was clearly mad that he just shipped me an $800 pot.

About an hour later, there was a hand that played out where the villain was involved in a hand with two other players. After the flop, player A was all in with a flush draw (about $106 into the already $100 or so pot), player B had called this $106 on some sort of draw, and for god knows why, the villain also calls the $106 with A 7, no draw, just a pair of 7's, which was the middle pair on the board. Player B and villain check it down, and villain scoops the fairly large pot with just the pair of 7's. Player B looked disgusted that he would make the call, and I think he said something to the effect of "What did you have that made you think that that call was a good idea?" To which villain proudly replied "I had a pair or 7s, what did you have?"

I couldn't contain myself, and basically mocked exactly what he said about my play earlier, right back at him. This for some reason made him furious. He flipped out on me. At one point he asked me "If I thought he looked like someone who was weak?" and yadda yadda yadda, let's take this outside and settle it. He was huffing and puffing and causing a scene. I kept saying things because I thought it was hilarious that he could critique freely but not take it back. The floor was called over and he had to sit out a few hands. He seriously looked like he was going to punch me in the face.

This story got way too long, and I suck at explaining things, so sorry if it sucked. When I first sat down, Villain had like a $1600 stack and when I left he was down to like $600. I hope he steamed off the rest. Player B in the above example looked like he was someone who probably posts here, maybe he can chime in.

that 10/25 plo game was sort of a one time thing that the home game crew set up AFAIK. 10/20+ essentially never runs, but there is generally always one 5/10/20 game going, it's just a matter of finding which 5/10 table it's on (same group of "regs" get the 5/10/20 started every day)

Getting pretty stupid that they keep doing this. Sooooo many benefits to just playing 10/20, including no jackpot drop and time rake. I think they want to just play 5/10 because they can buy in for 500. Next time i'm there i'm going to really try to lobby to get the game changed to a 10/20.

It wasn't all hundo's. I obviously hid a bunch of smaller bills in the big stack. It's closer to $8k. I should probably get to the bank before my roommate robs me or something. Actually funny story about that, I was leaving to go to the HR and my roommate goes "I believe this is yours" and hands me $400. I had dropped it on the floor, onto his side of his room (next to his fridge). I gave him $50 which goes a long way for a broke college kid. I just thank God I have an honest roommate (I didn't know him at all until a few weeks ago, it was a random room assignment).

First time it's ran I believe. The 10/25 rarely goes. I believe it only ran on July 1st and hasn't run since (unless it went in the past few days), in fact a lot of the times 5/10 is the biggest game going.

Internet tough guy ITT. I play with j9neverlose all the time and he's a good player/nice guy.

But you do have to look at for those old nits who will often make weird plays like that. I had an old guy limp UTG w/KK and a few limpers and I squeeze with QQ and then he just flats and we get heads up. Flop is 9TJ, I barrel, he calls, turn is a blank, I barrel, he calls. And then we both check it down on the river.

Why would you want to limp UTG and then not re-raise?