Foxwoods is very Accomodating

Mr Rick · #1 03-19-2007, 06:53 PM

Recently I have been going to play at Foxwoods a couple of times a month, and generally by the time I get there it is a several hour wait for the 10/20 LHE game. So I have been learning Omaha and usually can get into the 4/8 H/L game fairly quickly. On Friday I am in the Omaha game and I am checking my position on the 10/20 waitlist on a regular basis. I start out 7th move up to 4th and then I am 2nd. Then I am 3rd. I don't really think about it and sometime later I am called. I tell them to lock up the seat and I am told it is locked up. I pick up my chips and gather my things and walk over to the other side of the L shaped poker room. I put my stuff down and then buy some chips at the cage,put them on the table, and grab a slice of pizza - thinking I'll get back before I am BB anyway. When I get to the table the floor is seating another person at my seat. I ask what is going on. I am told that this other person was ahead of me on the wait list and is getting the seat. I talk to the floor and let her know I am very upset. I ask how this is possible. She says he should have been seated and its my tough luck but she will accomodate me. How I ask? She will put me at the top of the wait list she says. I ask how it is that I went from 2nd to 3rd on the wait list and she explains that the guy could have been on a dinner re-seating thingamahoogy (i.e. he got up from playing to eat and they reserved him a seat for later when he came back by putting him 2nd on the wait list). So what about the seat I just lost at the Omaha table? She says the other floor over there will accomodate me if I tell him what happened. So I go back and tell him the story and he says, well I can't ask the player who replaced you to get up because he has already played at least one hand - but I'll put you at the top of the wait list...

Some time goes by before I get into the Omaha game again (I use this time to go back to the floor and tell her that I hadn't been accomodated - I had been playing and now I am not playing. Oh yes you were accomodated she told me - you were put on the top of the Omaha wait list...). Then fairly quickly I get called to the 10/20 game and I am sitting close to the guy who had gotten the seat ahead of/instead of me. He tells me that he had been waiting a long time for the seat. I ask him how long. He says over an hour. Now I am steamed and I tell him - you know I was waiting over 2 hours for that seat. He quickly says oh yeah I was here that long. So then I continue to pump him for info over the next few hours. It turns out he drove to Foxwoods that morning - so he hadn't been playing and didn't leave for a meal break.

What I think happened is that somebody slipped this guy onto the wait list ahead of me (and a whole lot of other people) because either they knew him and it was a special favor - or he slipped them some money.

Anyway there are several morals to this story, re Foxwoods:
1) Don't pick up your stuff to move from a game unless you are sure you have a seat.
2) Don't think you have a seat just because you put your stuff down. I will, in the future, play at least 1 hand very quickly and then take a bathroom break or eat after I started playing.
3) Bring plenty of Vaseline so when the floor accomodates you so it isn't so painful.

Also, I was told by a regular at Foxwoods - oh that happens every day here...

jba · #2 03-19-2007, 07:16 PM

this stuff happens everywhere. you can't just lock up a seat and immediately leave. u

that said, their table reseating system is broken. they should require that a floor sign you up.

bav · #3 03-19-2007, 07:44 PM

OP was mistreated. Pretty simple. Not that there's anything you can do about it.

Dave D · #4 03-19-2007, 07:45 PM

Foxwoods is what it is, don't try to fight it.

I honestly kind of doubt that anyone slipped anyone some money, I mean I don't know for sure but I tried to tip a floor for seating me once and he said fw doesn't allow tips to anyone on the floor.

The worst is actually just the fact that there simply aren't enough floorpeople. I'm semi surprised you were able to get a seat change, ie it seems like normally you have to get up, walk over to a floor to tell them. That's what bothers me the most, the process for getting a seat is disorganized and sucks in general.

Leader · #5 03-19-2007, 07:51 PM

Yeah crap happens. You really shouldn't expect for the floor to kick someone out of the omaha game for you though. That's just never going to happen and your beef is with the 10/20 floor.

Jba's right too. Don't just put your chips down and then take off for half an hour or whatever. The people that play in that game don't really like that and they might start complaining to the floor before your time is up.

Mr Rick · #6 03-19-2007, 09:14 PM

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... your beef is with the 10/20 floor.

Jba's right too. Don't just put your chips down and then take off for half an hour or whatever. The people that play in that game don't really like that and they might start complaining to the floor before your time is up.

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I agree completely. I was gone under ten minutes though - probably closer to five... I don't think anybody complained either as I was back in time to post my big blind. Still, I'll never do that again. I'll play and then get up later.

dcasper70 · #7 03-19-2007, 08:04 PM

lol, I was sitting 2 seats to your right in the O8 game

sirpupnyc · #8 03-20-2007, 01:22 AM

Even here in the land of goodness and virtue there have been plenty of posts about how cool it is to circumvent the waiting list system by waiting to hear a "Last call XYZ for 10/20 Omaha" and stepping up to say "Yes, that's me", or claiming to be returning from a dinner break but really not. Maybe not so much since they expanded, but people will do any crummy thing they can think of to get a seat rather than wait, and then tell you any story they think you might believe. It's conceivable the floor did a regular a favor, but just as conceivable that a player took advantage of the system's slapdashery.

Happytime Harry · #9 03-20-2007, 02:38 AM

500:1 the floor didn't take money.

If they get caught they get fired, it'd have to be a huge sum of money for them to even consider.

thehabit 420 · #10 03-20-2007, 05:36 AM

Too be honest man, I dont have experiences with many other casinos, but I have played at the woods alot.

That [censored] happens ALL the time. To be honest, they never even check, so if u hear them announce somebodys initials and they dont respond after the second time, just take there seat. If ur worried about getting caught that way, I usually will wait until a new game opens up since they have so many tables, and run to the table and put my card down, and go and get my chips. Usually one guy comes bitchin about why hes not seated, but I guess Im just an [censored] who doesnt want to wait 2hrs for a seat like everybody else.