Finding Softer Seats in AC

[DamnRinger]

So this weekend i went into the borgata and played 3/6 for a few hours and after a few bad beats strung together i was tired of playing at the borg and needed a change of scenary to get my mind relaxed. So i started thinkin about where i should go. I came to the conclusion i'd play at a casino i knew had a terrible poker room, bally's. I went to ballys and sure enough there we maybe 10 tables going and nothing over 3/6 limit (maybe there was one 10/20 game now that i think about it). So i sit down and play and i ran into the fishiest group of players i've seen yet in AC.

I happened to be sitting next to a regular of bally's 3/6 who told me bally's was clearly the best place to play low limit holdem because no serious poker player would ever come to ballys to play. They'd go to borgata or tropicana or taj. This just confirmed in my head the idea of why i came to bally's in the first place. Am i completely dumb for thinking this? cause i feel like its a logical thought.

Also any other totally jokes like this in AC?

(and no flaming that all low limit is a joke because i realize compared to your high stakes it is)

[Luv2DriveTT]

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(and no flaming that all low limit is a joke because i realize compared to your high stakes it is)

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You are obviously new here. Take a look around you and you will see how ridiculous that statement is.

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[sfer]

I don't get it.

[BottlesOf]

Makes sense, I guess...

[MisterKing]

JBB- Dude, nice avatar...

To the OP: Your theory makes some sense, however I must say that the 3/6 games at Borgata are awesome. They may dry up a smidge early morning and before 2pm, but trust me, there's mucho $$ to be made there if you play goot. The rake is pretty intense, but they're still beatable. 6/12 is nearly as soft, maybe a little tigher and more passive, but those traits are exploitable in their own rights (didn't hit the flop? No matter... bet and the 70 year olds will fold unless they made TPGK or better!). Anyhow, good luck to you and welcome to the forum. Let us know when you'll be in AC next, as many B&M forum posters are there on a semi-frequent basis.

[bobhalford]

On my first trip to play my first live poker (ever) games in AC I got busted at Bally's. Sleazy poker room, but my girlfriend liked it cause you could smoke there. Frankly, there are no fishiless games in a casino for limit poker unless it is a big limit. Donkeys are everywhere, at all the casinos in AC. It's just unbelievable how some people play poker and how they think. They are there to gamble. I can't wait to go back.

[The Armchair]

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I came to the conclusion i'd play at a casino i knew had a terrible poker room, bally's. I went to ballys and sure enough there we maybe 10 tables going and nothing over 3/6 limit (maybe there was one 10/20 game now that i think about it). So i sit down and play and i ran into the fishiest group of players i've seen yet in AC.

I happened to be sitting next to a regular of bally's 3/6 who told me bally's was clearly the best place to play low limit holdem because no serious poker player would ever come to ballys to play.

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My experience has been 100% the same. My first and only time there was a late night and then mid-morning session, both at 2/4 because there was only one 3/6 game running. I had at least three players at my table who had never sat down to play poker before, and this guy (from an old 2+2 post of mine):

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Best table ever. Guy to my right is playing any-two and stays in way too long (read: showdown with anything.) In any event, it takes me about 3 hands to realize how much he sucks. He has something in early position and the flop comes down Q89. It's two-tone, and the turn brings a flush draw, so he mutters "f*ckin' flush." I assume he has the straight, but he shows down his TPNK (Q3o?) junk. Fine.

Later on, he's in a hand w/a 559 flop with two hearts. A 9 comes up on the turn, and the Q of hearts on the river. He, again, grumbles "f*ckin' flush!" I'm totally confused, as there's almost no way that could be hurting him (what, TT?). A guy shows Q9 for the win, and my flush-hating friend shows me his 22 as he tosses them in the muck.

And no, he didn't have the two of hearts.

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I wasn't in either of those hands, but I was in a hand where my KJ made a nice hand on a dangerous board -- KJJQx, with three to the diamond royal flush. There were four players for three bets on the flop, turn, and river, with one exception -- the woman betting into me folded to a re-raise on the river. I took down the pot and was shown 77 and Axd. The woman betting into me said she had "a high pocket pair," which I'll take to mean "higher than sixes."

This was standard for the room.

[sfer]

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Makes sense, I guess...

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Really? I got tired of bad beats so I went to a room with worse players makes sense?

[BottlesOf]

Nope, that a less pleasant, less talked about room could be softer makes sense.

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I happened to be sitting next to a regular of bally's 3/6 who told me bally's was clearly the best place to play low limit holdem because no serious poker player would ever come to ballys to play. They'd go to borgata or tropicana or taj.

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Seems reasonable enough. Not that I'd take a 3/6 B&M regular at his word for anything, but the OP had his own experience confirm it. So, bottom line, he's sharing a little knowledge with the forum, alebit not very exciting knowledge. Hence my original reply.

[Luv2DriveTT]

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Makes sense, I guess...

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Really? I got tired of bad beats so I went to a room with worse players makes sense?

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My own smart alec comment was related to his final statement only which was silly since there are more low limit players at 2+2 than anything else, but his observations were valid. All over AC you will find soft play, but I would venture to guess that the low limit play at Ballys is possibly even softer by a small percentage.

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