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shocking to me that the poker-hub of New England's biggest limit game is 20/40. i've tried on several occasions to get a 40/80 game going...to no avail. have things changed thsi week with the big tourney in town? you think we'll ever see a 40/80 50/100 type of game at the 'woods?

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I'm a low limit playing college kid, I go down to Foxwoods every now and then, the best chance you have of getting a good bigger game is on friday nights, the fridays I've been, I've seen 30-60 texas, 40-80 texas, 50-100 HOE, 100-200 stud, and 10-25NL. You aren't gonna get a good game any other night there. From what I hear the 20-40 is a pretty loose game.

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shocking to me that the poker-hub of New England's biggest limit game is 20/40. i've tried on several occasions to get a 40/80 game going...to no avail. have things changed thsi week with the big tourney in town? you think we'll ever see a 40/80 50/100 type of game at the 'woods?

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Yes, there have been much bigger games during the World Poker Finals. 200/400 O.E., 150/300 O8, 10/25 NLHE, were a few that I sweated . And that was during the first week with just the $500 tourneys and such.

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The reason is that the poker hub of New England doesn't have regular big games is that it's located far from any big money cities. Put FW within 30 minutes of Boston or NYC and there would be similar big money games like the LA casinos going every day.

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i was there last friday and they were running a 2k-4k hold em game... but yeah, the other three times i went, the biggest limit game they had running was 20-40. it seems that most of the people playing there are wpt wannabe 1-2 nl kids... equipped with sunglasses, hoods, visors, and everything else you see on tv.

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I sat in the 50/100 game for a little while last Saturday, but on regular basis the 20/40 is as high as the nitty regulars are willing to go.

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Outside of tourny times in the spring and fall, we have to beg to get a 40 game going. Then the few times that they actually call it, it never fills and usually breaks after only a couple of hours.

There are only a few regulars that are fairly decent. Generally they look at the lineup and see the other decent folks in it and rightly conlude that they are better off EV-wise in the 20 game.

There's just not enough fishy types willing to play in a 40 game on a regular basis.

If you want to play higher then you either need to play Omaha or mixed stuff.

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Actually there's a regular 75/150 stud game at Foxwoods. This is still the Northeast, after all, and stud is still big up here.

Also a fairly regular 10/25 blind NLHE game.

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20/40 is as high as the nitty regulars are willing to go.

Have we all forgotten that Texas Hold'em isn't the only form of poker? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

As a side note, they used to regularly spread a 300/600 Omaha8 game at Mohegan. Where'd those guys go?

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20/40 is as high as the nitty regulars are willing to go.

Have we all forgotten that Texas Hold'em isn't the only form of poker? [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

As a side note, they used to regularly spread a 300/600 Omaha8 game at Mohegan. Where'd those guys go?

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It was more commonly a mixed game, and it was usually at Foxwoods, not the Sun. That game died when THE key fish passed away, bless his soul.

For a number of months, there were no games (other than stud) bigger than 20/40 in CT. But I hear that they've been spreading the 75/150 and 150/300 mixed games there more frequently lately, even outside tournament time.

But don't expect to play straight hold'em higher than 20/40 there.

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They're also under no great pressure to start, either. They clean up on those 1/2 blind NL tables with the $5/half-hour time charge.

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Perhaps this is just a dorky rumor that only us naive Foxwoods yellow-chip players fall for*, but a dealer once told me they have an upstairs room where the high-limit clientele plays bigger games that don't show up on their board. I didn't bother getting details because hey, I'm decades from ever playing those games, but it made me curious.

As others noted, $20/40 is only the biggest hold'em game; Perhaps the OP is unaware that poker has actually been played for years in other variants as well as mixed games, or perhaps they just neglected to say hold'em. When I've looked there's usually something going as high as $75/150 or $150/300, either stud or HOE. And of course around the two big tournaments the side action really picks up.

Ah, to have a bankroll.... [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]


*Kinda like the rumors that Mohegan's just about to start up again.

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Perhaps this is just a dorky rumor that only us naive Foxwoods yellow-chip players fall for*, but a dealer once told me they have an upstairs room where the high-limit clientele plays bigger games that don't show up on their board.

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If they had one, I'm sure that I would have been told about/invited to it.

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*Kinda like the rumors that Mohegan's just about to start up again.

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Actually it appears that that rumor very well may be true. We'll know for sure by February.

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It was great to see you the other day. I went back later to visit with you again, but you were nowhere to be found.

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Actually it appears that that rumor very well may be true. We'll know for sure by February.

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Ah, glad to hear it -- Foxwoods needs some competition.

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*Kinda like the rumors that Mohegan's just about to start up again.

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Actually it appears that that rumor very well may be true. We'll know for sure by February.

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Don't go teasing me now! I'll be happy to not have to drop the wife off at Mohegan, and drive back to Foxwoods to play and then back to Mohegan to sleep.

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a dealer once told me they have an upstairs room where the high-limit clientele plays bigger games that don't show up on their board.

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If they had one, I'm sure that I would have been told about/invited to it.

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I heard the exact same thing from a guy a couple weeks ago. He said he's been there and played. He also said everything up there is comped...filet mingon, drinks, whatever. I don't know what to believe. Oh, he did say it was invite only.

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a dealer once told me they have an upstairs room where the high-limit clientele plays bigger games that don't show up on their board.

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If they had one, I'm sure that I would have been told about/invited to it.

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I heard the exact same thing from a guy a couple weeks ago. He said he's been there and played. He also said everything up there is comped...filet mingon, drinks, whatever. I don't know what to believe. Oh, he did say it was invite only.

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There may be such a room for other games but not poker. If they spread poker there, don't you think the 2000/4000 game would've qualified?

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there are some big stud games at foxwoods - 75/150, 150/300

a lot of bigger game action there is stud, actually

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there are some big stud games at foxwoods - 75/150, 150/300

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Yeah, I've seen that most weekends that I'm there. I always thought it would be funny to sit down at that table with a rack of yellow and say "Hi, this is 2-4 holdem right?"

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If you want high stakes hold on the East Coast, go to Atlantic City. I like Foxwoods but I haven't been there in a long time (I used to go a few times a year) b/c I don't feel like travelling 6.5 hrs to play 20-40 when I can go to AC in a few hours and play 40-80 or 80-160.

But I do like the casino and restaurants, and a change of scenery is nice once in awhile. I might go there for a total stud trip. Anyone ever play the 75 stud there? How does it compare to Atlantic City? Does it run 24-7 on weekends? What about weekdays?

Thanks,
Jeff

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As I remember, the 75 stud game goes almost all the time on the weekends. During the week, it's more hit and miss.

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I went downstairs to play a $125 satellite. played at a table with maybe 4 total nivices and 2 decent players. Guy on my right built up an enormous chip lead with 6 left, maybe 65% of the chips. Kept saying he had been in the same position several times over the past few days and never cashed. Kept saying "no deals at this table."

So I chip away at the rest of the table and eventually get HU with him. He's up 65/35 chip-wise. I offer a split - he can have $700. he snorts and says no. meanwhile, he's turned weak-tight, and I get the chips to about even when this asian woman who i recognize as a player on the tourney circuit comes over and hassles us for not making a deal since they need tables for other sats.

I offer again - even split, $500 each. No way. You can guess the rest. I beat on him like a $2 mule until I have 70% of the chips and checkraise him all-in with J7o on a flop of J-8-7r. he calls with KJo, gets no help and stalks out of the room uttering nary a word as they handed me my 10 Franklins.

I heard a lot of pros saying those cash sats were better than the cash games upstairs because there was enough dead money around to get down to 2 or 3 player often and then make percentage deals. if my table was any indication, they were right.