Foxwoods on Saturday
I played at the Foxwoods WPT poker room for the first time this past Saturday. The table action (one I was seated) was fantastic (including a very drunk girl who bet $50 of her $67 stack on the river and then folded to a raise), but actually getting seated at a 1/2 table was a nightmare.
We showed up at 3pm and the waiting list was 275 people deep. We played one of the huge rake sit-n-go's (comprised almost entirely of people waiting to be seated at cash tables) and when we were done about an hour and a half later we were still 170th in line. We decided to play another sit-n-go since it looked like it would be hours until we got seated. After paying for the sit-n-go, but before it started, the poker room suddenly announced the opening of a slew of new 1/2 tables, and our names were called. But because you cannot get a refund for a registered SNG, we had to play at 1/2 for about 20 minutes and then leave or forfeit the $120 we paid for the sit-n-go (and, of course, we had to get back into line once again for the 1/2 game, at about 100th position). After the sit-n-go (again, about an hour and a half later, we waited another 2 1/2 hours to be seated at 1/2.
This brings to mind a couple of questions for the Foxwoods regulars:
(1) Is every Saturday like this? If so, what time in the morning should I go to get seated within a reasonable amount of time?
(2) Is there a particular time that a bunch of 1/2 tables are added (due to a new dealer shift or some other factor I am unaware of)? The above mentioned table openings happened around 6pm.
(3) Why does the casino bother with the sit-n-go's when they could open all those tables for 1/2 on a Saturday. The 1/2 tables pay, at $5 per half hour per player, $1,000 an hour to the casino while the sit-n-gos pay $200 for about an hour and a half. All those tables being converted to cash games would shorten the waiting list considerably, making the clientele happier as well.
(4) What stakes does Survivor's Boston Rob play and is he any good? (ok, that was off-topic, but he was there Saturday)
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