Appreciate it.

Not sure about the prizes, but as of 2:30 am this morning the BBJ was at $280k.

I think that it's a good promo. It rewards casual players (40 hours over 3 months), along with regulars of varying degrees.

If you don't have any use for the items, you'll be able to sell some of them, either online or on craigslist. If not, save them up for gifts next holiday season.

Once you hit each milestone you go to the desk and get a supervisor to give you the prize.

I would expect the headphones/Sunglasses to be Beats ear buds or the smaller version of over-ears and a low-end model of Oakleys. If they are generic ass headphones and sunglasses, the whole promotion is garbage. lol

I listed what they were, beats pro $400 headphones and $150 sunglasses.

So with some quick guesstimates it seems like this promo pays about $3.50 (lol) an hour if you get all 320...nowhere near last summers promos unfortunately, but better than the last few months at least. Plus it might be worth a bit more just to be able to see all of the senior citizens rocking some Beats.

Speaking of which, on occasion there is a 60 year-old white-haired woman (I'm guessing her age, but she certainly isn't any younger than that) who plays 2/5 that regularly wears a hoodie-- with hood up-- underneath a hockey jersey, with sunglasses and earphones. Pretty amusing appearance.

I wish I could tell you that she's always hyper-aggro, 3-betting light, pwning the noobs, and all that jazz but... yeah, she buys in for $200 and waits for the nuts.

Oh well. I guess you can take the granny away from the knitting, but you can't take the nitting away from the granny.

...and she shoved $450 into a $200 pot yesterday out of turn on a 10 10 2 flop after 3betting my QQ. I guess ill check...Instamuck

Hmm...320 hours in 3 months (~10 weekends for me). 32 hours per weekend might be too much for me to handle. I'll probably donk off $1000 in the process of trying to grab those hours.

Anyone with a full-time job gonna try to get all those 320 hours?

Its 13 weeks exactly - so 24.6 hours per week to reach 320, or 15.4 hours per week to reach 200. I work full time and will prob just go for the 200 hours - I just got a new ipad3 for my birthday in March, otherwise I might have pushed for the extra hours and the ipad. I don't own any beats headphones though so that seems like it'll work well and be much more achievable.

On a side note - I won a $375 pot all in preflop at 2-5 a couple of nights ago with 27 off. There was a straddle on the button - and I raised the cutoff to $65 after a couple of limps, and the small blind went all in for $175 - I called and hit a 7 to beat his 44. The table reaction was awesome and payed dividends lol

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Usually runs too cold or too hot in the poker room then?

Also is it relatively easy to find cabs coming out of the casino? Cab stand available or around? Or am I going to have to call and arrange a pick up?

I have played at the hard rock a few times 1/2 nl and the games were pretty soft, especially on the weekends i was there.
How are the 2/5 nl games there? Lot harder than 1/2?
Is the 2/5 pretty tight or loose? See many fish in these games?
And is the 2/5 usually just the regs or do u see lots of different faces in them?
Thanks in advance to anyone that would like to answere
I may be getting a decent sized bankroll soon and trying to figure if i should focus on tournaments or cash games or maybe a lil of both....

I bring a hoodie everyday and I am rarely sorry I did. Usually don't need the hood up but sometimes on certain tables its needed because air blows right on you.

There are always cabs lined up out front. I don't know if you just walk up to the 1st cab or if they have to whistle the next one up or something.

Likely,

As with every poker question ever asked, the answer is of course "it depends". But in general, yes you'll see an overall increase in skill from 1/2 to 2/5, but it's still a soft game with plenty of weak/passive play, some TAG regs who are nitty but overplay their "made hands", and a few random uber-calling stations, maniacs, and check-raising Asians in between.

Fewer limped pots than 1/2, but still plenty of limp/calling. You will be able to narrow fields more though, and not see all-ins every other hand because there will be deeper stacks.

OK, now for some specifics. Let's start with their PF raise sizing...

HEY! Who poured me another bourbon? Christ, I ain't givin' the store away for free!

Apparently they have a new rule or are enforcing an old rule.
I saw it happen tonight and don't know how many dealers will enforce it but it could happen whenever.

If you miss 10 hands then the dealer is supposed to call supervisor and if there is a list they will pick you up. The guy was only gone 15-20 min. and they picked him up. He was back and playing in another game for 20 min. before we finally got a player from the list to take his spot tho. lol

For anyone who hasn't played here and is reading this, you can get a meal ticket from the brush and you pick up your chips from the table and you have up to 2 hours to take a break and you will be 1st on the list for the next table when you come back.

It sounds like they have a few new rules - other one is they now enforce third man walking. I was there the other night and a couple of regulars were complaining about it, so it must be a new rule. I was amazed that almost everyone including obv regs had never even heard of the rule and thought HR management made it up. I like the rule because it keeps a good table from breaking.

The 10 hand rule seems ridic and from what I saw only 1 or 2 dealers enforced it strictly. One dealer was about to pick up a guy when the table had one open seat and there wasn't a list - guess he didn't quite grasp the reasoning behind the rule.

They have had 3rd man walking buttons for years but they never enforce that. But if they enforce the 10 hand thing then there is no need for 3rd man walking.

I wish they would enforce the moving out of the blinds and posting the bb rule that is 100% automatic evertime everywhere else in the country.
They do have that rule but 90% of the dealers never make people post. As far as I remember you can move over 2 live players or less and not have to post but if its 3 or more then you do.

Another thing that is automatic anywhere else except HR is when someone folds pre flop when nobody raised and they are in the bb, the dealer should muck the hand, but at HR they give it back to the person. The other day someone did this and the dealer left his hand laying in front of him and put the flop out and then let him take it back. WTF.

Maybe they are getting stricter with the 3rd rule. On Thursday night a guy said he was given a 10 hand penalty when he got back to the table for being the 3rd walking and thought the dealer was joking about it when he got up. He said that him not being able to play for 10 hands caused the table to break.

I don't play there very often but have definitely seen the moving away from the blind not being enforced and the dealers returning mucked BB hands several times.

I also saw one dealer shuffling the chips in the pot while a player was considering his action. I'm not sure why the dealer felt t was ok to play with chips in the pot ever.

Good chance to ask something I've wondered forever: What your legal rights REALLY when at THR? I've heard a million different contradicting things. I've heard their cops can "do whatever they want and answer to no one" but that's not true if that case ended up in court, no? I heard a player gave a light-moderate slap to head of another player when they were arguing and the player who got hit started yelling "assault!" and wanted to press charges, but according to the dealer telling the story "They wouldn't let him press charges" What??? Could I punched physically by another player and then all they do is throw out that player, I can't press charges, and then I see him again the next day with my black eye? If so, shouldn't I just sneak up behind the guy with a chair, hit him over the head, and wait to be "thrown out"? LOL. Another time I heard two guys arguing about how they were gonna fight and one guy said to the other "ok, hit me if you wanna go to jail." And the other players chimed in to say "no one goes to jail here" like it's dog-eat-dog or something. But that can't be right. So again...?

Does anyone have a link to some good REAL info regarding what rights I have at the casino?

I see dealers shuffling the chips in the pot all the time and sometimes you cant even see what is in the pot because its in their hand. There are dozens of other things.

When you are at the THR, you are officially on sovereign Indian nation soil. City, county and state police have no jurisdiction and can only enter at the behest of the tribe. Tribal police have the right to retain you and to turn you over to non-tribal authorities, or to eject you from the tribal lands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribal_..._United_States

Also, per the Seminole compact with the State of Florida, you can sue the tribe for personal liability for incidents occurring at a Seminole casino, but for a maximum of $100,000.

The blinds rule is one that they enforce all the time I'm there. Most dealers encourage the player to wait to pay blinds, then move. Surprised that hasn't been your experience .

When someone if facing a blind and wants to move, yes they are made to post if they move in that spot but when they are not directly facing a blind and move away from the blinds over 3 or more live players, thats when the dealers rarely make people post.