foxwoods spreading 40/80?
 

i heard this from somewhere.. is it true?

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Would be a good excuse for me to take a drive...been a LONG time since I've been to the area (driving back and forth btwn 10-20 at FW and 10-20 Half Kill at Mohegan; too bad the latter no longer exists). I always liked FW though (hotel, restaurants, etc). I can be there in 6 hours (nah, screw it, I'm flying).

Jeff

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I have almost never seen it going, except intermittently during tournament time. I don't even see them running an interest list.

They do regularly get 3+ tables of 20-40 going, even on a weekday afternoon.

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They will spread all sorts of games if there is interest - and while others are there more often than I am, I don't think you can regularly count on anything above the 20 being spread. And sometimes even that is a mess like two nights ago where they had the full game and then the "must move" table with like three guys on it getting annoyed.

If only we could've gotten the 10-20 or 20-40 Shhhhhhhhh game spread (1 round of Stud and then 9 rounds of Hold 'em) everything would've been roses.

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I just don't get how a room the size of Foxwoods with proximity to large cities can't get bigger than a 20-40 going on a regular basis. The only possibility is incompetant management as far as I can tell.

Jeff

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There was an interest list last Saturday, but I don't think the game was spread.

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I can't understand why a casino that uses only $5 and $25 chips would spread a 40/80 game. If they had $10 or $20 chips, it would make sense. But playing 40/80 w/ 5 and 25 chips is such a pain in the ass. People put in wrong amounts, get confused, slows the game down.
Just jack it up to 50/100. Goes so much faster.

Another example of how Foxwoods is so cluelessly run.

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If they had $10 or $20 chips, it would make sense.


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$20-$40 alone would benefit from $10 chips.

While I know I am in the minority, I would always like to have games where all of the bets have a chip counterpart. For example, in the $20-$40, you need a $10 chip for the SB, a $20 chip for the big blind, and while I'd like $40 and $80 chips, I'd settle for just having $10 and $20 dollar ones.

$50-$100 is doable with the $25's and $100's that they have now. But, yes, $40-80 wouldn't exactly be a breeze...

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Planning on pulling a hit n' run on that game too?

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I'm with you.

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I'm with you.

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And you're both wrong.

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Convincing.

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And you're both wrong.

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This is clearly a matter of preference so the "right/wrong" thing doesn't apply and I even prefaced my opinion by stating that I am quite certain most people don't agree with me.

Yes, I know people like the look of "action" -- why shouldn't we all have 50 racks of white when we sit down to $50-$100? Then you can bet a rack ... I'd raise a rack ... and pretty soon there are 50 racks in the middle of the table.

Action ahoy!

With the $20-$40 example, I know I would much prefer to have access to $10 chips than the situation now at Foxwoods where it's all in $5's.

Barron Vangor Toth
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I'm with you.

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And you're both wrong.

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This is clearly a matter of preference so the "right/wrong" thing doesn't apply and I even prefaced my opinion by stating that I am quite certain most people don't agree with me.

Yes, I know people like the look of "action" -- why shouldn't we all have 50 racks of white when we sit down to $50-$100? Then you can bet a rack ... I'd raise a rack ... and pretty soon there are 50 racks in the middle of the table.

Action ahoy!

With the $20-$40 example, I know I would much prefer to have access to $10 chips than the situation now at Foxwoods where it's all in $5's.

Barron Vangor Toth
BarronVangorToth.com

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4 chip/8 chip isn't unwieldy. Your example is.

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Convincing.

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Have you played a 4-chip/8-chip structure?

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Yes, but not at the mid limits.

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Then you can bet a rack ... I'd raise a rack ... and pretty soon there are 50 racks in the middle of the table.

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Are you raising a rack to have the proper odds to draw on the turn?

If so, I would 3-Rack you.

-ZEN

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Who would do that?

And it would be a rack on the turn and the river -- half-rack on the flop; or a rack to make that initial raise and then a three-bet would be 1.5 racks and a cap would be 2 racks.

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4 chip/8 chip isn't unwieldy. Your example is.

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You don't consider the 20-40 game played with $5 chips to be a 4-chip / 8-chip structure? Isn't that what's meant by it that it would be 4-chips pre-flop and on the flop and 8 on the turn and river...?

Barron Vangor Toth
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Nope, my racks have Kennedys in them [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

-ZEN

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That is a 4-chip/8-chip structure. Sfer just doesn't consider it unwieldy.

I don't know if I'd consider it "unwieldy" but perhaps "less than comfortable."

THe 40/80 in all red would be insanely retarded. Blue or $20 chips would be better. I wonder how the current mix of red and green works.

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The 40/80 went last Thursday, in the early evening it was 4 or 5 handed. I had to leave, when it finally started. Usually if you can get it started 4 or 5 handed, it will usually fill up within an hour. I agree game kind of sucks without $10 chips-- but you probably got more of a chance trying to start a 40-80 then a 50-100, because thats what those crazy FW HE players prefer.

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why shouldn't we all have 50 racks of white when we sit down to $50-$100?

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I've played in a $50/100 with red chips. Technically, it was a 30/60, but everyone at the table had overs buttons to 50/100 (at least until I joined the game and didn't take the overs).

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4 chip/8 chip isn't unwieldy. Your example is.

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You don't consider the 20-40 game played with $5 chips to be a 4-chip / 8-chip structure? Isn't that what's meant by it that it would be 4-chips pre-flop and on the flop and 8 on the turn and river...?

Barron Vangor Toth
BarronVangorToth.com

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Can you read?