Wrong. Three different guys game to the table where I was playing. After the first guy someone asked about it and they told them the cage gave the blacks to them, like they were out of reds, as improbable as it sounds.

Well if that's the case, there's no policy the dealers could follow that would improve the situation. They just need to get more chips in the room.

They're never out of red chips when someone wants to buy 3 racks of them.

Strange that 20/40 and 40/80 people always manage to get copious amounts of the needed denominations of chips but a 2/5 player isn't afforded a single rack of them.

I think it's more likely that 3 guys in a row didn't understand how the cage works, handed over their money, and when asked what they needed, responded "chips."

Yeah the other day the room was packed but when I bought two racks to play 20/40 there was no shortage. I find it very hard to believe that the Bellagio ran short of chips.

$5 in particular which aside from $1 is the most bread-and-butter denomination there is in any cardroom in the land. As I mentioned above, the 30/60 stud players said they didn't get any $10 chips because the NL and of course 40/80 LHE games were using them all, and that is believable because $10 is a fairly rare denomination.

I'd think a 30/60 game should have priority over a 5-10 NL game simply because NL plays just fine in $5 chips. Once the bet gets over $100 everyone's using higher denoms anyway. But 30/60 in green and red is clumsy, especially in multiway pots during the stud 8 round. (Everyone should have some red for antes but after that it should be an orange $10 chip game.)

Calling Sean Snyder:

I'm playing 1/2 mixed at Bellagio yesterday, goofing around with my phone, when I hear Sean's name. I didn't hear how this conversation started, all I heard was seat 1 telling seats 2/3 how Sean Snyder was the guy introducing all of these new games into the mix at HG and that's where all of these crazy drawmaha games came from.

If that's the case, thanks Sean, these games are really fun! And challenging, especially drawmaha 2-7

My last session in May we started the mix with 26 games in it, I think that's the record Drawmaha kinda just appeared in the 80 mix one day and made its way to our game, then we started playing the 2-7 version along with it at someone's suggestion. I think both variants are pretty good poker.

I miss my mix people, hope I can get out there to gamble at some point.

At times we've also played drawmaha A-5 but not the past few days. 1/2 has been a bit uneven, a few days ago I thought it was surprisingly soft, yesterday it was very tough. 2/4 has multiple tables running which usually indicates a good game. The mix here is in the neighborhood of 14 games.

24 games is impressive, at our home game we play about 22, and it'll go to 25 with the drawmaha games added. I hope to get an LA session in this fall

I don't what to tell you other than what happened. They had reds when I bought in.

If so, that's a crappy cage. Who walks up to a poker room and wants 3 blacks without specifically asking for them?

High and A-5 seem like logical forms of poker to me. 2-7 dramaha is kinda awkward for me. Other than pat 9s and great one card draws what the hell do you play preflop?

Woooooo hoooooooo

Ivey might have the stare but you have the hair. Run pure today and bring home that trophy!

+1. Rooting for you, DeathDonkey.

Glgl DeathDonkey. Bring home the trophy!! 50k players championship has a nice ring to it.

haha I like it and don't care how long it took you to make it up.

This will be fun to watch

Has anyone ever registered online to buy in for the WSOP? Considering playing the Main Event. I've read from prior years showing up for the last flight to register is a bad idea - very long line queues.

Day 4 of the 50k PPC can be watched for free on twitch.tv today starting at 3pm.

Tomorrow's final table will be on the pay to watch PokerGo service.

I haven't played A-5 dramaha, but in my limited experience 2-7 is a more forgiving variant where it's easier the back into hand post draw. You can also play a wider range of hands pre than pat 9s and one card draws. Also certain boards become very unlikely - impossible to scoop.

In dramaha high you pretty much need a strong starting hand to start pre-flop 99s+ and that's probably too loose. If you brick your high hand with garbage and end up with J-high, you''ve already lost half the pot.

Just to be clear (I did try to Google it) the Omaha half in 2-7 Dra(w)maha is read as Omaha high right?

Yep. Half pot goes to the best Omaha high hand in. Two cards from your hand, three cards from the board.

What's a typical scooping hand in 2-7 drawmaha? I can't imagine that a wheel hits a lucky AJ864 board very often?

Also, I'm assuming A2345 is a wheel on the Omaha side but would like to confirm.

This matters because 75432 on A23xx could make the nut nut. Otherwise you'd need some weird straight flush or a board like 643, 632, etc., obv. rainbow and without higher straights.

Assuming everyone's trying for a 2-way hand seems like any good TD27 hand + low Omaha straight is probably pretty strong, but something like an 87542 on JT9 could be a sucker hand. And given that everyone should be chasing low cards it seems like even 54 on 9763x is probably nothing to write home about. All this is just me spitballing.

Wow, I played regular high Drawmaha one time and thought it was the most ridiculous poker game I have ever played in a casino. But playing for low in your hand but high on the board really takes the cake; I'm sure that is an even worse game. I'd rather play follow the queen.

Great run DeathDonkey!

Best of luck in Big Mix and any cash games you decide to play

87542 is good enough to win the draw half for 2-7 dramaha