Foxwoods advice

[Rogue5]

I'm planning on going to Foxwoods tomorrow (Monday Aug. 1), and was looking for some tips.

I'm thinking of playing in the 8AM 45+15 NL tournament, and was wondering if anyone had any experience in the morning tourneys there. Any idea on the usual # of entrants or how the level of play is? my only thoughts are that at 8AM, the casual gamblers aren't around yet, and nobody is drunk yet (or are they [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]) so the competition will be tougher, and I don't think there would be too many entrants. Would I be better off just sleeping in and sticking to cash games later in the day?

I've played the 2/4 limit there before, and I figure that's what I'd be doing again, the play at that level is about as bad as I've ever seen, but with tips and rake it's tough to make much money, so I think If I'm up after an hour or three of 2/4 I may give 4/8 a shot, or maybe try some Omaha for the hell of it. How's the 4/8 limit there? could anyone give a party poker equivalent (harder/easier than 2/4 or 1/2 at party?)

I think I'm going to avoid the NL tables because I just don't like the idea of timed rake, and friends of mine bitched about the 1/2 NL table because everybody bet/raised with $5's, and it was very aggressive, so having bought in with $100, they got bullied out pretty quick. I've done well in AC with 1/2 NL, but this timed rake setup would have to be very juicy for me to give it a shot.

I guess that's about all I can think of, thanks for any advice.