[slappy0]

I live close to Windsor and have played there a couple dozen times.

They typically spread at least the following: 1-2NL 100MAX, 3-6 limit, and 2-4NL 200MAX every night. 100MAX is the most popular with 3 tables, 2 limit tables and 1 200MAX table.

On busier nights - Thur, Fri, Sat - you can find 5-10 limit, 200min-500max NL, 10-20 limit, (occasionally 10-20 omaha, or round by round Hold'em and Omaha)

Rake is as high as I have seen or heard of anywhere.
NL games are session fee based: $6 every 30 minutes.
Limit games are 10% up to $6.
At least for lower stakes games.
Not sure on the 10-20 game rake ..

100MAX is a shredder - lots of young bold players - on the weekend lots of young american (ie 19 and 20 yrs) who can drink and gamble there. If you are reasonably careful, you can do fine at these tables, even with the high fees. As a rule, if your table isn't seeing a fresh buyin or 3 every 30 minutes, it is cold and you might as well hang it up. Obviously there are a fair number of regular, and relatively solid players in these games as well - taking advantage of the situation I described above.
The 200MAX is only slightly tighter.
On both - the blind size is insignificant - flops usually cost at least 10-12 often around 20 - and still get a couple of callers.
One tip - if you play the NL - since the fees are so high and it is sometimes tough to get started from 100 and build a stack .. is that I always pay the fees out of pocket instead of out of my stack. If you have won a pot or 2 and have say 150 .. and go cold .. the session fees will eat your profits up and put you back in a short stack position. You want to be able to threaten the people that come in 1 time with their 100 to take a shot which is easier to do when you have 150 to their 75 or so.


3-6 and 5-10 are loose as all get out. 3-6 rarely sees less than 6 to a flop. The other maybe 4-6 to a flop depending on the crowd. Both can be profitable, but you will see some horrendous play and get sucked out on. Most players at 3-6 are loose passive - with the occasional LAG. If you can recognize more than 2 decent players at your table, you probably aren't at a very good table. 5-10 is a little more agressive and you will see better players - however it is usually on spread on busier nights and the weekend "tourist" factor plays, so there are still some pretty bad players. I've only played that level 3 times here - so don't have much more than that to go on.

One thing that bugs me is that even the 3-6 plays with mostly $5 chips. In vegas I found that most of the low limit games were almost all $1 chips. It seemed to encourage more action. A number of times I have bought in all whites .. and then had the dealer top up his/her tray out of the pot and replace with $5 to "get some of this white out of here".

If you want to play 3-6 .. turnover on tables is low .. but you can call ahead 258-7878 to get listed. 100max lists are longer, but they burn through at least 4X as fast.

On 3-6 don't be afraid to get a seat change button to get position on the real fishy players. Most times no one else at the table will have a clue what you are doing anyway.

Tourneys - m,w,f - $50+5 up to 60 players. t,th, 100+10 up to 60 players. I think they have a monthly friday for 500 as well. (I might have the days for 50 and 100 mixed up)
I have not played in these since they are only offered at 10AM and never on weekends.

I probably don't have the hours in to say which games are best .. I have had good nights and bad at NL and Limit there. I am up slightly more on my limit play in terms of $ per hour - but I also think my limit game is a little stronger. Often I will sit in a 100MAX until a 3-6 seat comes available, and if the NL is a good table, I'll pass on the seat, otherwise go and play limit. This has been a relatively successful approach for me.

Hope this helps .. see you at the tables.