Foxwoods or Atlantic City

[whorasaurus]

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Mohegan Sun does not have poker

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Poker room opens up next year.

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Elaborate please. I'm moving to CT Tuesday actually.

[Mr Rick]

Foxwoods (FW) has 98 tables, is smoke free, has no competition within any reasonable travel distance, and is usually bursting at the seems on Saturdays with waiting lists over 40 for some games (though you can only see 20 on their screens). They have a very good variety of games at differing limits. O8 maxes out at 8/16, LHE at 20/40 (there might be a bigger game on request), NL is 10/25 ??? maybe higher. And stud up to 75/150... I think they have HOES as well...

Mohegan Sun (MS) will have 45 or 50 tables and is slated to open May 2008 less than 15 minutes by car from FW. No idea what games will play.

At FW all dealers pool their tips and I have heard that the floor gets something like $5 less per hour than at MS. At MS dealers won't pool their tips. Though MS is not currently hiring away FW dealers, my guess is that they will get the best ones within a short period of time after opening. Same with the Floor. Unless FW changes policy on a dime.

[magicmcq]

From talking to dealers, I have heard that Mohegan, when it opens, will spread the limits that FW does not have.

Holdem, for example, at FW, spreads:

2-4, 4-8, 5-10 KILL, 10-20, 20-40, 40-80

Mohegan, I hear, will have:

3-6, 8-16, 15-30, 30-60

[Carlson411]

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From talking to dealers, I have heard that Mohegan, when it opens, will spread the limits that FW does not have.

Holdem, for example, at FW, spreads:

2-4, 4-8, 5-10 KILL, 10-20, 20-40, 40-80

Mohegan, I hear, will have:

3-6, 8-16, 15-30, 30-60

[/ QUOTE ] No [censored]. Thats hot. I like FW because of the action, and the food and shopping is great, but its a b i&h to get there. Mohegan has more bus rides. Also want to get a nice 8/16 game going.

[jordanx]

To answer your question:

Go to Atlantic city, there are a good handful of casinos w/ poker so you'll have more variety.
Tons of tourney options.
Rake is usually 10% to 4$ no jackpot.
You can likely find a cheaper hotel room.

[*TT*]

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Mohegan Sun does not have poker

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Poker room opens up next year.

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Everyone has been saying Mohegan will re-open the poker room "next year" for the past several years. Until then, we'll all have to deal with Foxwood's idiotic floor people, inept dealers, and lack of edible food.

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You are WAY behind in the news. Mohegan Sun is expanding right now, they are already doing the construction. This isn't hearsay like it has been for the past 4 years, its a fact now - their website discusses the House of blues themed poker room which is being developed.

[ragazzobello]

Right. But my point was to emphasize Foxwood's overall ineptness and monopoly on the poker scene in New England to the OP re his choice between AC and Foxwoods. Spring 2008 (assuming MS's poker room opens on time) is long way off.

[Poshua]

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From talking to dealers, I have heard that Mohegan, when it opens, will spread the limits that FW does not have.

Holdem, for example, at FW, spreads:

2-4, 4-8, 5-10 KILL, 10-20, 20-40, 40-80

Mohegan, I hear, will have:

3-6, 8-16, 15-30, 30-60

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Really? This seems unnecessary to me. Foxwoods is such a poorly run room that Mohegan has no need to differentiate by games spread-- it can take away market share simply by not sucking. OTOH, if they plan on having all the tables packed all the time, it may make sense to aim for higher limits.

Do you have any info on the NL games to be spread?

[Mike Gallo]

The Mohegan Sun used to spread a Texas Hold'em $10-$20 limit half kill to $15-$30 game.

Hopefully they will spread that game again.

[4_2_it]

Go to AC. Plenty of shopping/night life/beaches for your GF.