Michigan poker

imported_Dozer · #1 07-21-2005, 02:05 PM

Anyone know any good card rooms in the Eastern Michigan/Detroit area? I'll be visiting family up there and will look for a place or two to play at.

If this is the wrong forum for this question, please direct me to the correct place to post. Thanks.

Tapin · #2 07-21-2005, 02:29 PM

Check out the MGM, Greektown, and Casino Windsor. If I've been informed correctly, you should check 'em out in that order.

(I've never been to any of 'em, plan on hitting at least the first two next time I'm in the area)

neotope · #3 07-21-2005, 02:30 PM

I've only been to Greektown and the 5 or so times I've visited it was fairly decent. The crowd is much different then AC or Vegas which definitely affects the games. I mostly played the 10/20 which in the off hours was pretty tight but later in the day it would loosen up.

Search around to find more trips reports. You might also want to check out Motor City Casino and Casino Windsor, they both have poker.

Superfluous Man · #4 07-21-2005, 03:18 PM

I've been to Greektown twice, both times on Sunday night, to play 5/10. Both times there were at least two complete donks at my table (myself not included [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]). There were also a couple TAGs and one LAG each time, but it generally tended towards loosish-passive play. I'm sure the action gets even better on Thursday-Saturday nights. Also, I imagine 10/20 isn't a whole lot different from 5/10.

Like the guy above me said, the atmosphere is a lot different from Atlantic City (and even Harrah's in New Orleans; I've never been to Vegas). This is probably due to a mix of it being Sunday night (much fewer patrons, a much more subdued clientele) and the fact that you have to pay for booze. Not like that stopped the abusive, disrespectful, racist donk to my right, but whatever.

I'd avoid the "sit n goes" if they still run them, as they're horribly structured. Good luck.

Spook · #5 07-21-2005, 10:17 PM

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Check out the MGM, Greektown, and Casino Windsor. If I've been informed correctly, you should check 'em out in that order.

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I think you mean Motorcity Casino, MGM does NOT have a card room.

I am sick of the greektown 5/10, it is often time breaking up or will get people constantly in and out going to NL and just playing three hands. The only people who donk away money buy in so short it isn't even that easy to take their money before someone else does.

A_C_Slater · #6 07-21-2005, 10:56 PM

The 5/10 used to be a cakewalk until they added those damn time charging 1-2 NL tables and all the donks gravitated to that game.

The 3/6 is still super good though. I played it yesterday and it was 6 to the flop on average, almost no preflop raising, no raising to protect. They usually bet when they should, but they almost never raise or fold when they should.

MrDannimal · #7 07-22-2005, 12:03 AM

5/10 is still a cakewalk, if only because the 1/2 50-100 NL has started eating up some 3/6 tables, so now the 3/6 crowd will play up to 5/10 just to sit. Yum.

MrDannimal · #8 07-22-2005, 12:11 AM

As has been said, it's Motor City not MGM.

Motor City: No smoking room. Small (~8 tables) and cramped.

Greektown: 1/2 smoking (3/6, baby NL), 1/2 non (5/10 and up, big NL) (reasonably seperated, but you still deal with some smoke on the NS side). ~20 tables, though only at peak times are they all in use.

Haven't been to Windsor yet, but have been told it's ~10 tables with room to double that when they get up to speed.

The $50min-$100 max 1/2 NL has a $6/half hour time charge, which is brutal but the games are still beatable because the play is that bad.

3/6 and 5/10 are more or less interchangeable (5/10 might be a little tighter, but not all that often). Usually very loose-passive and transparent. Everyone is aware of the jackpot, but nobody seems to know how to qualify (I haven't been in a year without some debate about it). Just good fun.

I'll be at Greektown tomorrow night (~5pm-3amish). Probably wearing my Detroit Marathon long sleeved shirt and my tattered to [censored] poker jeans (because I don't care if they reek of smoke at the end, I only wear them to the poker room).

imported_Dozer · #9 07-22-2005, 09:30 AM

Really good stuff. Thanks, guys.

If anyone else has anything to say about where to play, I'm all ears (or eyes as the case may be).

Is there a max buy-in on the 1/2 NL? What's the avg. preflop raise? That might be where I set up shop.

peterchi · #10 07-22-2005, 09:55 AM

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Really good stuff. Thanks, guys.

If anyone else has anything to say about where to play, I'm all ears (or eyes as the case may be).

Is there a max buy-in on the 1/2 NL? What's the avg. preflop raise? That might be where I set up shop.

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It seems to be that people are saying Greektown now has two NL games:

the big one has $2/$5 blinds, min buy-in of $100, no max buy-in (at least as of last summer).

and apparently there's a new smaller one with $1/$2 blinds, min buy-in of $50 and max buy-in of $100.

I haven't played in the smaller NL game, but when I was there, the big NL game had a time charge of $8/dealer. There was very little pre-flop raising. This may have changed over the course of a year though.