Foxwoods $2-5 NL Regulars?

JoeM · #1 05-12-2006, 01:28 PM

Are there any regulars on here from this game that I may recognize? I don't know a lot of names but I remember faces pretty well and I am a semi-regular (once a week) in that game. Anyone here?

AKQJ10 · #2 05-12-2006, 04:38 PM

At risk of hijacking your thread -- isn't the buy-in structure for that game vis-a-vis the $1-2 pretty bizarre? As I understand it, the $1-2 has a max of 50 BBL ($100), but the $2-5 has a minimum of 60 BBL ($300). What's up with that?

e_phemeral · #3 05-12-2006, 04:55 PM

$2-5 has a minimum buy-in of $300 and max buy-in of $500. $1-2 has minimum buy-in of $40 and max buy-in of $100.

AKQJ10 · #4 05-12-2006, 05:02 PM

I'm glad we agree on the actual buy-ins. Isn't it pretty odd for the second-smallest NL game in the room to have a minimum stack size (in BBL) bigger than the max for the smallest game in the room?

By comparison, the Borgata has a $1-2 game with a max of 150 BBL, and a $2-5 game with a min of 50 BBL. Or to look at it a different way, you can buy in for $200 at two different games at the Borgata, but for none at Foxwoods.

I just find that odd -- not earth-shaking, just odd. In effect it means that I'll be grinding at $1-2 for quite a while before I'm bankrolled to take on the $2-5, even short-stacked.

ChuckyB · #5 05-12-2006, 05:32 PM

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At risk of hijacking your thread -- isn't the buy-in structure for that game vis-a-vis the $1-2 pretty bizarre? As I understand it, the $1-2 has a max of 50 BBL ($100), but the $2-5 has a minimum of 60 BBL ($300). What's up with that?

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To protect the fish from going broke too fast? And to attract new players?

AKQJ10 · #6 05-12-2006, 07:35 PM

Well, that explains the max, as it does in all the limited buyin small stakes games. But why wouldn't they want to keep the $2-5 fish from going broke too fast, too?

Ghazban · #7 05-12-2006, 09:15 PM

The 1/2 is for people who have absolutely no idea what they're doing and want to go all-in like they've seen on TV. The 2/5 is for people who think they know what they're doing but are horribly wrong. The 5/10 is split between people waiting for a 10/25 to start and people who think they're too good for 2/5 (they're sometimes right, usually wrong). The 10/25 is for the action junkies and good players.

TStoneMBD · #8 05-13-2006, 01:05 PM

lol awesome. although, the 5/10 mostly consists of sharks and rich fish. the rich fish dont play the 2/5 because they dont like getting sucked out on every hand. while there are definitely people who play the 5/10 because they think they are too good for the 2/5, there are more rich fish than these people.

FatalError · #9 05-13-2006, 06:15 PM

Because foxwoods 1-2 NL is an absolute CASH COWWWW, if they had it their way everyone would play 1-2 NL at foxwoods, these people get no comps (.50/hr) if they even remember to clock in or use it. they don't know enough to make too many problems, and they happily pay their time for [censored] dealers

10-25 NL?
you've got all the problems that go along with people with a combined quarter mil on the table and maybe a few celebs, they pay less than double the rake as the 1-2 nl players and because they're always yelling at a floorman for something it's not even worth it

thats why 1-2 nl will never change, because to them you can't fix something thats not broken

you can always just slip chips into the game, nobody ever notices

KSPD · #10 05-14-2006, 12:23 PM

I think the oddity is in the $1-2 game. The $1-2 game needs that limit of $100max because it attracts the people that have never even played poker before outside their kitchen table. If it were more than $100, it would seem too daunting to the uninitiated.

The $2-5 is a pretty good spread of buy in min/max and GENREALLY speaking the style of play is a little more conservative. You can buy in comfortably for the $300 at the 2/5 while if you buy in for the 40 at the 1/2 you'll be forced to go all in the first hand you play typically.