I spent some time there recently and the $2/5 game seemed fine to me. I think $2/5 is big enough to get the people who have money and want to gamble to sit down. Yeah, you don't get as many people being totally clueless like the $1/2 game going all in PF with J8o but it seemed to me that stacking someone for 100 BB when they had top pair was not tough to do in the $2/5 game.
I can't imagine the $10/20 games are worse than the $20/40 games at Foxwoods-- the $20/40 games yeah you get some people who want to gamble and whatever but even the regulars do not play very well in that game. If someone is playing $10/20 it is because they haven't been able to beat those regulars, and I think just a good HE player vs. a lineup of only the regulars would be a winner.
Why worry about the rules so much? Who cares? Pull the time out of your pocket and pay with that. Don't ask. Keep the time in a pocket of your jacket or something and get it ready when you are asked to pay time. Not to be sneaky or anything because you aren't doing anything wrong, just so that it is less likely anyone says anything-- just pay your time out of your pocket without fumbling around, smoothly like you are supposed to do it that way. Dealer asks for the time charge and bing it comes out smoothly and you are all set. If the dealer complains or someone starts bitching then you can say, "Oh, I have to pay my time out of my stack?", take your money back and pay out of your stack.
Foxwoods cares about one thing: money. Having chips come out of your stack and pockets and people going is this okay is that okay and whatever costs them money because less hands are being played. They want a simple rule with no exceptions and anything like that, especially for the $1/2 game. So their rule is time out of the stack no bitching no hassle, next hand please.
FWIW, when I played the $2/5 game I rebought out of my pocket too any time I wanted to and I was below my initial buy-in. Nobody said anything to me-- I got eyes from a few people when I would do it, but I kept my chips arranged such that it was very easy to see I had less than the maximum so they had no reason to argue.
You know when felt is in front of you nobody says anything when you rebuy. That would be my funny rebuke if someone else was telling this story.
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Date: 2006-08-29 17:33 (UTC)I can't imagine the $10/20 games are worse than the $20/40 games at Foxwoods-- the $20/40 games yeah you get some people who want to gamble and whatever but even the regulars do not play very well in that game. If someone is playing $10/20 it is because they haven't been able to beat those regulars, and I think just a good HE player vs. a lineup of only the regulars would be a winner.
Why worry about the rules so much? Who cares? Pull the time out of your pocket and pay with that. Don't ask. Keep the time in a pocket of your jacket or something and get it ready when you are asked to pay time. Not to be sneaky or anything because you aren't doing anything wrong, just so that it is less likely anyone says anything-- just pay your time out of your pocket without fumbling around, smoothly like you are supposed to do it that way. Dealer asks for the time charge and bing it comes out smoothly and you are all set. If the dealer complains or someone starts bitching then you can say, "Oh, I have to pay my time out of my stack?", take your money back and pay out of your stack.
Foxwoods cares about one thing: money. Having chips come out of your stack and pockets and people going is this okay is that okay and whatever costs them money because less hands are being played. They want a simple rule with no exceptions and anything like that, especially for the $1/2 game. So their rule is time out of the stack no bitching no hassle, next hand please.
FWIW, when I played the $2/5 game I rebought out of my pocket too any time I wanted to and I was below my initial buy-in. Nobody said anything to me-- I got eyes from a few people when I would do it, but I kept my chips arranged such that it was very easy to see I had less than the maximum so they had no reason to argue.
You know when felt is in front of you nobody says anything when you rebuy. That would be my funny rebuke if someone else was telling this story.