I think it would be hard to find a tougher NL1/2 or NL1/3 game in Vegas right now. Doesn't mean there aren't soft spots. Doesn't mean the games are always nitty or always crazy. But almost everybody has at least half a clue. The foolish tourists who stumble into the room are like deer in headlights--eyes shining like beacons saying "take my chips" as 8 players at the table maneuver around each other trying to be the one to take the kill shot. And the average life span of the tourists at the table is remarkably short.

Being from Ann Arbor, I'm a HUGE Michigan fan as well as a Spartan fan. The past couple of days sure have been great!!

I'm sure limit games will be spread very soon. As for omaha, we made it a hold em only promotion because we want it to be sustainable for as long as possible. In order for it to be sustainable, we have to have some tourists in the game who aren't taking advantage of the promotion. That obviously wouldn't happen with omaha. Plus, hold em hands are much quicker, and the quicker the hand, the more we drop in promotion dollars. We would go broke in a week if we made omaha part of the promotion.

On that note, however, we have and still will offer a $2 max rake on all mix games and omaha games, at any time.

Wat? You expected it to be mostly tourists? Tourists don't play in promotions that require 20 or 30 hours in a week.

TI's 1/3 has always had a handful of tough regs. Usually there's only 1 or 2 at most in a game, unless there's a big spewer. Then they start showing up in droves, probably from floor calling them.

That's not true.

Nice....wish I could be there for ya

Nobody said free money is easy to get...get your game up

What 1/3 game are you playing?
Call me crazy but I want deep stacks at the table. The more the better. What do I know.

I got to the room around 6-6:30 pm, but had to wait for about 30 minutes for another game to start up, as I was 7th on the waiting list when I got there. Idk if you can call in, but I would recommend doing so, so as to not waste time.

I played from 7-11 pm, there's hardly any limped pots, standard opening raise was about $10 75% of the time, plus one bb for each limper, but there was the occasional open raise for 5x even 6x without any limpers prior. The 3 bets were not frequent at all.

Stack size doesn't always have a correlation with skill level. And yes, as lady bruin pointed out, I was making a point how much bigger the games play, as opposed to a regular 1/2 game.

Yes, ty

+1. Yeah maybe I went over the top with shark infested, but there are definitely no casual players.

Not really, expected it to attract mostly regs, but also bad regs. There's hardly any of the latter.

That is good to hear as I was wondering about the mix games. And I agree with you that you would go broke adding Omaha to the promotion; even more so for the mix game considering the games that are played.

+1, I've been calling there since the promo started to c if 3/6 limit has been running. Def would play there if a reg game got off the ground.

they don't. but they also are more likely (being a former tourists myself) to sit and play when there are 4 or 5 tables going instead of just one

FYP

As I said before, I've been there many times over the years and I've never seen any LHE bigger than 2/4. So unless they hire props or something, it's unlikely they'll ever get a 3/6 going.

Not from a lack of effort...we offered $2 max rake for the last 3 months of 2011 and now we're offering up to $10/hour to play. If it's not meant to be...

Troy, you need to be an optimist. There are probably some limit hold em players out there who are very depressed over the fact that it is so difficult to get a regular game in your room. I really like that poker room, always have, but limit doesn't ever seem to run there. I always check in, before heading over to Mirage (always park at TI), but no 2/4 games even run, when I'm bored and just want to play some poker. Have someone accidentally drop some flyers on the floor by the limit tables at Mirage, and I bet you'd at least get a list going. I'm really holding out hope that a 3/6 game will get going there by February.

Mirage is probably the most reliable 3/6 game in town. Nearly every time I have gone there, they have 2 tables going, and usually a list. I can't understand why traffic is not migrating for this promotion. I'll still keep hope alive.

Fellas.....instead of talking about it be about it. This is a poker room thread right? To promote a poker room.

Advertise here that your thinking about starting a 3/6 game. It seems there's some cats in this thread that would play there. Get interest and organize 1 or 2 days a week to start. Tell your boys at the Mirage whats up. I'm sure you could support a table or 2 a couple times a week. Who knows TI might be more appealing to a few. Bullet points would be:

Great looking room- great promo-great staff-$2/hr comps low limit etc.

Why not get a few friends together and stroll over to TI and start a table?


Id be all over that room if I lived there [soon to be]. The room looks great and the comp $ is nice for low limit poker [not to mention $2 max drop on mixed games] and Troy seems to be a good dude with a head on his shoulders.

Seriously Troy...you can do this. Small room but nice and comfy looking. No reason you cant fill the room consistently. 2p2ers will help. I know I would if I could get there.


*pasandman..I thought you were in pa? You live in Vegas now? Get a game going at TI would you?

I don't play limit, but I'd think that based on this promotion and the popularity of this board you could probably find 6-9 posters to agree on a time to show up and get a game started. Once the game starts... who knows???

Edit: I was typing as seizedeadmonies was posting.

I'm not going to be able to play until February, but if people are interested in game starting (as long as we could get it at least 6 handed), I'd be interested, once February rolls around.

LOL I am an optimist, sometimes. It's been extremely puzzling to me since I have been at TI. I know for a fact that the mirage players know about the promotion, because I've been playing there and heard them talking about it. I would think it will catch on eventually. I would love to drop some fliers in the room, but I'm good friends with the manager there, and wouldn't do that. He was my boss for several years before he took the job at the Mirage. In fact, we both worked together at the Mirage before we opened the room at TI.

Truth be told, it wouldn't be good for the longevity of the promotion if tables full of limit playing locals migrated from the Mirage. We need some tourists in order to make this work, and with limit games, that really wouldn't happen. No Limit is what the tourists like to play, so it really may just be better this way.

lol.. I was going to quote you but I didn't because you stated in a previous post that you play more on the east cost.

Get your butt in there when your in Vegas....you don't have to play limit.

Thanks!

Anytime is good for me. 3/6 anyday . Pm me or post in this thread if you want to play.

different name (I had mine first)

I recently was working in a room which could not get a limit game even when circumstances apperaed to push players from another casino into our room.

I think I figured outr why it was so hard to get a limit game. The limit players would walk into the room and ask for a $2-$4 game. We would tell them we didn't have one going put we would start a list. They would then leave. Even if one or two stayed ..... limit players simply won't start the game short. No limit players you get three of them to sit down a fourth comes get cards in the air five minutes later the game is filled...... put the limit players simply wouldn't stay in the casino unless they saw 8 names on the interest list. (obviously if the room had a history of gettiung the game they might stick around)

How can this promo possibly survive? If only 30 regs get 60 hours a week then that's $18,000 paid out a week, $72,000 a month. How can the TI possibly afford to pay out that much money? My figures aren't even including the people that are gonna get paid for putting in 20 or 30 hours a week. Those figures don't even include the $1 or $2 they give an hour in comp.

I really don't see how this promo can last.