Treasure Island (MN) $2-$60 Game

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That is strange about the Indian casino spread limit. I also have no clue and would love to hear it if anyone knows why this is.

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Maybe they feel the customers will lose more faster than fixed limit.

When Dave Eglsteder was still at Canterbury he told me they would never spread NL even if the laws in MN were changed because they didn't want the customers going broke (even with a capped NL buy-in).

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It must be a Canterbury decision, as TI and Mille Lacs will
deal either game. The players just don't want fixed limit games over 3/6 for whatever reason. If someone started a list for 5/10 and 7 people added their name, they'd open a table.

Players get cleaned out big time in the 5/30, 2/60 type of games, but the same bankrutpcy/divorce/car repo causing events occur at Canterbury. But you are probably right, it must be a Canterbury policy attempting to keep players solvent enough to return.

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-What is the normal buy in?


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Normal buy in is $500. I don't believe they have a cap. Grand Casino Mille Lacs has unlimited buy in for their spread limit games, 2/10, 2/20, and 2/60, so I suspect TI has a similiar policy.

good luck

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My biggest beef is the dealer shortage. There can be empty tables along with lists 20 deep and they won't open a table until a predetermined time when a dealer reports to work. Other rooms have dealers that work both poker and blackjack, so the floor can move dealers between the poker room and blackjack pit as needed. Not TI.


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I 100% agree with this.
If you go on a weekend either get there at like noon/1PM or don't bother until like 7PM. If you show up at like 4PM you will be waiting for a while to get 2/10.

That is strange about the Indian casino spread limit.
I also have no clue and would love to hear it if anyone knows why this is.

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Played there Friday night and again their staffing and table opening procedures are a mystery. Arrive at 6:15PM and 1 table each of 2/4 and 3/6 going, also 3 2/10 games going. Huge lists for 2/4,2/6, 2/10 and 4/20 and 5 open tables sit with no game going?? I have to wait until 7:20PM when they finally open a 4/20 game to get onto a 2/10 game. Then as the lists go down and all the 2/10 games get shorthanded they open another 2/10 game???
I have no clue as to why they do this other than what others have said about waiting for dealers.

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Also I forgot to mention that they did get the big game going and it was 2/60. At peak time (11PM) they had one 2/60, two 4/20 and four 2/10 games.

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-What is the normal buy in?


[/ QUOTE ] Normal buy in is $500. I don't believe they have a cap. Grand Casino Mille Lacs has unlimited buy in for their spread limit games, 2/10, 2/20, and 2/60, so I suspect TI has a similiar policy.

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You'll likely need a few buy-ins of $500. It plays like a drunken 2/4 at times other times like 30/60... generally see some CP 10/20 or 15/30 players.

There is NO CAP . But, if you buy in for more than $3k, they'll take down all your info (DL, SSN).

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It must be a Canterbury decision , as TI and Mille Lacs will deal either game. The players just don't want fixed limit games over 3/6 for whatever reason. If someone started a list for 5/10 and 7 people added their name, they'd open a table.

Players get cleaned out big time in the 5/30, 2/60 type of games, but the same bankrutpcy/divorce/car repo causing events occur at Canterbury. But you are probably right, it must be a Canterbury policy attempting to keep players solvent enough to return.

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No. It is NOT a Canterbury decision. The state has tighter restrictions on table nummbers, limits, structures, game styles for CP than the Tribal Casinos in MN.

Those on the hill in St. Paul don't want MN to be some sort of gambling town. They don't want the headaches and controversy w/ too much gambling like mentioned above and they keep trying to keep the lid on it.

Tribal casinos have a huge lobby that fights to control what CP can do. Yet, they do give CP some luxuries - spread limit is not one of them.

Need proof? Why doesn't Mystic Lake have poker when almost ALL of the other MN Tribal Casinos now have it? CP and ML have a relationship, they have always had one. Reason, the gambling population. They have a lot of cross over and they are both unique enough to flurish. If Mystic Lake opened a poker room, it could kill the race track - a big player in many of the MN's industries.

Btw, ML it the primary supporter/contributor and benifactor of the Gambling Lobby.

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Saw this and thought I would bump it up because I love playing the 2-10 spread at the TI. Anyone been out there lately?

Also I played the 2-10 at Hinckley last weekend and it was OK but definitely played a lot more aggressive than the TI 2-10 which I don't like as much because I like to see cheap flops. The game was good but this room, which also was moved recently, only had 4 tables going on a Friday night and 2-10 was the biggest one going. Is that typical for a Friday night? Is Saturday the day they get more and bigger games going? It must be better on Sat night after the NL tourney they have Sat afternoon.

Any Hinckley regulars have any info on this?