Absolute beginner's primer for Foxwoods

[jad14]

Play tight for a bit and observe. Come up with a plan and execute.

-stare downs are funny
- be different, take 1 minute and buy chips at the window

[jws43yale]

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1.) Wear your Redsox or Yankees hat
2.) Wear your Oakley sunglasses
3.) Listen to your iPod Nano
4.) Hollywood every time you look at your cards, even when folding 72o
5.) Play bad, pre- and post-flop

That's pretty much the standard at Foxwoods.

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Exactly, I put in a twelve hour session at 1/2 and played a $120 SNG last Tuesday. First time to play at Foxwoods and people there were horrendous. Had a guy call off a 125 BB overpush on a straight draw. There were also two really bad players sitting at a table behind me that had built up stacks of $2500 in 6 hours just playing badly.

Pretty much the basic advice you gave would be more than enough to help your girlfriend. One reccommendation of mine is that raises need to be significantly higher than 3x-4x BB. There will routinely be two limpers willing to call when you raise to $15. If she really only plays premium hands, makes people pay PF, and then milks the idiots when hitting a set, flush, straight, etc., she will have no problem making money.

[SpleenLSD]

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1.) Wear your Redsox or Yankees hat
2.) Wear your Oakley sunglasses
3.) Listen to your iPod Nano
4.) Hollywood every time you look at your cards, even when folding 72o
5.) Play bad, pre- and post-flop

That's pretty much the standard at Foxwoods.

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Hilarious! I'd add one thing to this list: Bitch and moan when a river card slays your hand.

[AndysDaddy]

Have fun
Play tight
Nothing to lose
Flat calling a raise is usually a mistake
Avoid conflicts with big stacks
Don't raise reraisers
Not calling a raise is only a small mistake

Guaranteed to win millions

[Blizzardbaum]

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1.) Wear your Redsox or Yankees hat
2.) Wear your Oakley sunglasses
3.) Listen to your iPod Nano
4.) Hollywood every time you look at your cards, even when folding 72o
5.) Play bad, pre- and post-flop

That's pretty much the standard at Foxwoods.

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This is pretty much the only Foxwoods specific advice in the thread. I would also suggest 6) try and play at a table by the floor to ceiling window in the afternoon (the natural light is probably FW's best feature) and 7) do not look at the waitresses because they are hideous.

[shane88888]

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7) do not look at the waitresses because they are hideous.

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Does that include the sexy dudes serving drinks?


That's right, they have men doing a woman's job at the 'Woods. I think this thread has killed my urge to play live tonight.

[Man of Means]

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Does that include the sexy dudes serving drinks?
That's right, they have men doing a woman's job at the 'Woods.

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Those guys at least get the drink orders right.

There's probably 2 or 3 hot waitresses and the others are busto.

I gotta get back into the NL game...so tired of limit.

[dotbum]

Thanks for the additional answers. She went, she had a blast, she lost ~half buyin. The standard of play described left me tempted to move there. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]