80 max buy went out years ago

No idea on if 5/10 has gotten up or not? Got a decent interest list last night.

Props to star city floor, get put on wrong waiting list (wanted 2/3 and list was off the page so no way I could have seen). Confirmed with person at desk they put me on list I wanted as it was off the page due to numbers. Notice 45 mins later than my name still isn't appearing on the first page of 2/3 then see they stuck me on 5/5 instead. Go to desk, get apology and get put at bottom of 2/3 waiting list. Clowns. Standard star treatment. I'm always very polite to desk and floor staff, learned my lesson. Time to be a right royal dickhead in future and get the preferential treatment that the rude *******s get.

Hey is 2/3 softest on weekends??

I've played 5/10 there once. We had one whale on the table but most of the other guys immediately started straddling and the game got too big and the whale left

Was really clueless stuff by the regs

Sadly that doesn't surprise me. The ecosystem could comfortably sustain a 5/10 game there I'm guessing up to three nights a week as long as the regs don't abuse it and drive the money away.

Don't even remember 80 max buy..must have been 2008 or 09. I know 80-100 was increased to 80-200 in October 2010 so that change itself was long ago.

I take it Fri/Sat night are still pretty sweet?

Do they still have free parking if you play for an hour?

Yes, still the free parking if you play for an hour. I must admit I miss the good ol' days when if you played for 4 hours you got food as well (it was just a sandwich or some such but better than nothing).

If they ever get rid of time charge we can buy a full meal with the $20 of savings

Anyone else playing the Main?

Lol at a casino with a monopoly dropping their prices.

Only way they'll drop time charge will be if they lift max rake cap like Crown

Ruling that just happened to me at the star.
On a QT9 flop. 5 way action. Action goes bet 25 into 80, I raise 95, bb flat calls, someone cold 3-bets 230. Initial better calls, I call, bb shoves for $500. Everyone else goes all in action on me with TT.
So three way all in on the flop action is on me. I'm thinking out loud since I'm the only one with pending action. So I say, "uhhh I don't think I can fold". The dealer then deals turn and river. And tells me to pay because I lost. The whole time I'm saying why should I pay I didn't call. So supervisors were called, I affirmed I did not put any chips in nor say call. Supervisor said " I don't think I can fold" is NOT binding. So after 45 mins of looking at cameras and calling the big poker manager down. They decided to give the two ppl with KJ the pot and poker manager said he'd credit me the extra that I didn't call later, but they get their pot. So I agreed, extremely fair ruling, although I don't understand why my noncall wasn't just taken out of thrange.
An hour later I get pulled aside by the casino manager this time. He says, I believe you have been angle shooting and I am not prepared to pay u the money and you also get a black mark on your card. If I 'angleshoot' again I get banned.
Which is ridiculous, how could I be angle shooting in the first place when I was no given the opportunity to call. Utg opened preflop, utg+1 called so QQ is very possiblely in their range. Plus I had only 4th nuts facing 3 100bb all ins at 2/5. Yet I was infarcted for something that was not my fault. This was also inconsistent with a similar hand where the dealer dealt early and then the whole hand was ruled void.
Gg star. Granted I probably was going to call but i had not announced anythjng nor put chips in and was dealt a losing hand, PLUSsimilar situations have been ruled against me in the past so I thought I had a fair argument.

Did you protest you didn't call as the dealer was dealing the turn or did you wait until after the river then protest you didn't call? Waiting until after the river to say you didn't call is a very obvious angleshoot. If you were protesting the whole way, while the dealer was sorting out all the side pots (how did dealer sort out all the side pots without your stack, he let you play out the hand without even moving your chips forward in an all in with multiple stacks involved?), then that does suck.

As an aside, never use the word "call" or "fold" in your sentence when action is on you. Place is noisy, if dealer hears the world "fold" come out of your mouth and misses the first part of your sentence it's tough luck, your verbal action is binding.

Yeah I'm keeping that in mind next time
I told him I didn't call but gave them the money anyway. Then he's like oh ****, need to call the supervisors. They asked me after about 40mins about my intention and I told the truth I was probably gonna call but they gave me a black mark for that.

Didn't know how it could be ended up my fault when they dealt the last two so quickly while I cringed at 3 all ins and was deciding what to do. BUT after u explained that point of view, I can see how the manager thought I was angle shooting

It's one of the things with live poker. I've been caught out once or twice when I started, after that you catch on fast that the only person protecting your action is yourself. If you haven't decided and the dealer starts dealing the turn then it's time to scream blue murder and make sure action freezes until you get a ruling. Not abusively of course but make sure there is no doubt at all that something is amiss. That way at least you will get a decision made, preferably that premature turn was dealt, but at least you're not the one getting freerolled.

Sorry to hear the situation, getting a black mark against your name is rather harsh if this was the only disagreement you had the entire session.

Haha yeah gotta be on the ball next time, not that mad because I would've lost anyway. The supervisor and the dealer who was next shift seeing it happen just rotated back to this table. After I told them that i got no money back and also black mark for the whole ordeal, the supervisor started cracking up laughing BC of how ridiculous that ruling was. Then the dealer jokingly said"haha , I don't think I can fold, then bambam -two cards, black mark".
Live and learn haha

I understand the ruling and think it isn't wrong but...dealer is definitely in the wrong as well

He needs to ask you 'is that a call?' and generally you should be making a forward movement with your chips as well

5/10, 700-2k. It's been up a few times now, is the 20 an optional or mandatory straddle? No supervisor has been able to answer this simple question so I'm hoping someone here can.

That ruling is only harsh if the player would have spoken up about the dealer error if the board had paired on the turn or river.

it's an optional straddle, which means that you don't have to straddle when you are utg but....you'll be playing a game where most players seem to want to play it so you're really playing 5-10-20 any time you want to open a pot

I must say that I think it is utterly ******ed to list something 'optional' on a game description and I can't think of one good reason why they would have it.

The buy in limits are wrong IMO - they should make the 5/5 a $1k max to separate it further from the 2/5 $500 max and then this would at least be a middling jump in size before we got to the 5/10 - 2k max. Right now it's a massive jump from 5/5 - 700, to 5/10/20 - 2k

BTW anyone know the rules about wearing flip-flops? Always see people wearing them at the poker tables but is it like RSLs how after a certain time, you can't enter the casino in them

I wear them there often when I play

They're called thongs mate

I'm guessing the "optional" straddle means that if you straddle it's a genuine straddle rather than a "blind raise" - meaning you get the option if you do choose to straddle. At least I'm hoping that's what it is otherwise it is truly terribad.

My issue with the 5/10/20 is the ridiculous 700-2k buy in for a game effectively playing 5/10/20. It's supposed to be the premium NLHE game but plays 35bb - 100bb making it a short stack shovathon. 1k - 3k would have been a far smarter option and made it a genuine alternative to the 5/5 PLO game.

Totally agree re the 5/5 being a 1k max, otherwise there is little difference between the 2/5 and 5/5 besides the 5/5 costing $5/hour more in time charge. A genuinely deep stacked 5/5 game at 100bb-200bb buy in would make the 5/10/20 game redundant as it would play effectively as big (and likely bring in more recreational players due to it not looking so huge) and play deep rather than a high variance high buy in short stack game.

Edit: If you're a 5/5 reg then I'm guessing we have likely played each other more than once at the tables.