I just heard about the May promotion, it's going to be something like this: You have to accumulate 20 hours of play Mon-Thurs and then you have to be there Friday when every hour they will do a hot seat drawing for $1000 if you got 20 hours for the week and you are there playing Friday when they call you. Also, a couple of the hot seat drawings will be for $5000 at, like, noon and 8pm or something. I could be wrong about some of that but it will be something along those lines.

btw, we playin PLO again tonight?

That sounds pretty pathetic...

wtf happened to the 5 - 10 game? Last night, and the dealers I asked confirmed this is how it usually is, the 5 - 10 was just a must move game into the 5 10 20 must move game. How crazy is the 5 - 10 - 20?

Guys I want to play 2/5 and 5/10 no limit. I could use some opinions and I have a couple of questions. Can someone tell me what the rake is at 2/5 no limit, do they take 5 straight up or do they take 1 at 10, 2 at 20, 3 at 30???? I would like to know if the 2/5 is even a beatable game with the high rake they have in florida. Is 2/5 a bunch of nitty regs, or are there some crazy action guys that come in??? What is the rakefor 5/10NL??? I would also like to know the min and max buy ins for 2/5 and 5/10 nl.

I haven't played 2 -5 a ton, but I have found the games to be very nitty. Everyone buys in for 200, so its not deep stack at at all. And when they get deep, they usually either leave or tighten up. 5 - 10 is a way better game, all the people with some money who want to play are playing that, but it seems that all those people now are playing 5 - 10 - 20. I'm sure techinically its beatable, but its a freakin grind.
The rake is 1 for jackpot, and 1 at 10, 2 at 20, etc, with a max of five.
5 - 10 its 500-5000, 2 -5 its 200 - 600 I believe, but like 85% of people buy in for 300 or less

Rake at 5/10 and below is 10% up to 5$ + 1$ jackpot drop, they round down. 5/10/20+ they do time rake I believe. I think its 6$/half.

The 5/10/20 isn't timed rake. It's the same $5+$1 as the other limits.

And the 5/10 game is 100% unbeatable for the simple reason that it doesn't exist. It's all 5/10/20 just about every time. Lest you get excited if you stroll in sometime and see a nice, promising 7 or 8 names on the 5/10 list, glance over at the 5/10/20 list. Every single name will be the same. With the exception of some very rare, unconfirmed sightings, 5/10 has gone the way of the dodo.

Travel well, sweet 5/10 game. We hardly knew ye.

Hi guys. I posted this on the Derby Lanes thread also. For all you tournament players out there I have a deal for you...

Last night I was playing in the weekly $85+$12 Multi Table Tourney sponsored by 97X, and there were two bounties on the heads of two local radio personalities. Long story short, I busted one of them out and collected a bounty which happened to be a free entry ticket to the monthly "Show Me the Money" tournament which is $400+$30.

The tournament for April ran yesterday, and I saw there were 110 runners, 1st place got paid $10700. Anyways... If you're planning to do this tournament, I'll chop the rake off the ticket price. No juice to the 1st person that wants it for just the $400.

I already spoke to the supervisor at Derby who issued this ticket to me, and he said I can sell the ticket if I want. I just have to let them know the name of the person I sell it to, so they can update their records on who is to show up with the ticket.

The tournament for May is scheduled to run on Saturday, May 21 @ 1:00 pm.

Just PM me or whatever if you're interested.

I am a newbie, so i'd appreciate a heads up here. What is a must move game, a move move game? 5/10/20 is just 3 blinds right?

auto straddle utg... how have the 1/2 games been? thinking of heading up in a few to kill this easter sunday boredom

FYI, the THR game is played with the $20 blind/straddle from the button. This is typically bad for a game, since people are more hesistant to play a marginal hand when the button is already in for $20.

Actually that 5/10/20 game at the THR is a 3-blind game, not an autostraddle. People can, and do, straddle 40 in addition to the 3 blinds. Most who do that straddle from the button, but at the THR you can straddle from any position, with priority starting at the button.

We ever get specific plan for May promotion? I'm guessing it's the "super hot seat" deal on Fridays? I didn't bother to check THR's website, since it's garbage and question begging every time. Maybe I'll give it a shot....pray for me. Even though there's no god.

Yes, it's the ridiculous Super Hot Seat crap.

I believe the June promo is any player who accumulates 30 hours each week from Thursday to Saturday and wins a hand with sevens full of deuces gets to spin a wheel for a chance to win an entry into a raffle whose winners will play a super-turbo shootout for a non-transferable seat into a hyper-turbo shootout for a non-transferable seat into a WPT event. So that'll be cool.

These promotions are really getting stupid...

May promo is: Play 20 hours sunday-thursday and you qualify for the hot seat on Friday from 10am to 10pm with hourly 1k draws and a few of them are 5k.

Yea this promo is pretty weak but the previous few months promos were pretty good especially the free $240 deepstack seats every week for only 20 hours.

hey hopefully someone can give me some info... wondering if the skill level at the 1/3 game 100-300 is much better than the 1/2 joke? the 50-100 max at 1/2 kind of blows but the games were still good the few times ive gone. on a tight roll at the moment with full tilt not coming through so trying to make some good table selection. any advice appreciated.

LOL - caught me off guard, I'm tired. Had my suspension of disbelief fully intact for the first three-quarters of that mess, then had a real lol.

$1/$3 is definitely more profitable in my opinion. The skill level in general is slightly higher, but not by much. Maybe the difference between open limping UTG with 9-3 off, and open-limping UTG with 9-3 suited. The $1/$3 player knows better than to play that hand if it's not suited. And while many, maybe half or more, buy in for the min, at least that's double what the shortstackers are playing at $1/$2.

You will find the occasional winning player, but you'll definitely have a target-rich environment. If you have more than 2 other competent players at your table, get a transfer.

And you should already know this, but for the love of all that is holy, DON'T BLUFF.

don't bluff?

LOL @ don't bluff.

I play this game regularly. You can be profitable if you play totally ABC and never bluff/semi-bluff/continuation bet. You'll be more profitable if you only bluff the players who can throw a hand away. Which, in my estimation, is roughly 10% of the $1/3 player pool.

haha cool thanks. i'll give it a try when i head there tonight or tomorrow.

i agree with this as well. even in atlantic city where i normally play, at low stakes not bluffing is the way to go. biggest mistake people make at this level is over-valuing their draws and top pair. and you have a lot more guys willing to pay to see what you got or convinced everyone is bluffing them all the time. wait for a hand then push it hard and it will pay off more often than not.

I'm sure it's a relatively universal thing at all low stakes live games, but most of my experience is at the THR. Trust us, cash2. No, there's nothing wrong with betting your nut flush draw. Feel free to build a nice little pot. But when you've got no flush and no pair on the river, just let it go.

Alternative plan: take the advice of those who LOL at not bluffing. Fire at the river after you've missed everything and enjoy getting called by the 76 year-old man with bottom pair who has been calling everyone's bets on every street in every hand all night. Then, after bluffing off your chips to the calling station, explain to everyone how his play was bad.

Remember, we're talking about low stakes at the THR here. Just ride the ABC bus to Profit Town, my friend. It's not fancy, but it's damn reliable transportation.