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Just a couple of additions to the letter posted. There is a 50-100 HE game every Friday and it normally gets a lot of action. Also the 15-30 is one of the best around the country for the size of the place. Of course the one draw back to the little tables is paying $3 on the button. But if you go to 10-20 it is $10/hr time play. Not too bad.

I guess I’m a regular but not every week I still have to work for a living. But if I could win the tournaments every Thursday like I did last Thursday I might consider retiring early. A $1200 paycheck for 4 hours of work isn’t too bad a living. The stone’s phone number can be found at its web page www.turning-stone.com.

Turning stone’s poker room has potential for becoming a class “A” room but the casino management won’t the force that does it. Players will. When the room opened last year, there were plenty of 15-30 and above games spread all the time. By January a 15-30 stud game was impossible to get going. Since the poker room staff will accommodate anything players want (they are tops, btw), enough mid level players will jump start this room. We need weekend players who are interested in more than 1-5 studs. They tried “Spread it and they will come” now we have to “go and they will spread it”!

Answer 1:

As long as the card is approved, I don’t see those scumbags turning you down for buying in with another one. Hell, I bet they’d let you buy in with 20 different credit cards if you wanted to.

Answer 2:

I have used a few different cards. Some cards, the GM Card I know of will not let you charge this type of transaction. I stopped using that card for any reason. If you can buy chips with a credit card, what good are they?

Answer 3:

Try asking them!!! – But to answer your question, you can.

Answer 1:

The poker rate at the Trop is your best value. Contact the poker room for details. Taj is nice, but more expensive. Trop and Taj have the best poker rooms.

Answer 2:

For my $, the Hilton has the nicest hotel rooms in town. If you’re stuck paying a rack rate, you might as well go stay in a nice, clean room. However, if you are really dead set on finding a cheaper rate, the Hampton Inn on Route 40 is less than a mile from the start of the casinos and has decent rooms.

Answer 3:

Except for special promotions, the room rates at the 12 AC Casino hotels are much higher than in Vegas in the summer. But summer at the NJ shore is peak season and bottom season in the LV desert. Ballys might be relatively cheaper but if you want to treat yourself a little my recommendation would be Caesars (they also have a low stakes stud poker room in the hotel).

Answer 1:

Luxor has a good 1-4-8-8 hold’em, also try Bellagio for ambience. Luxor has a daily turn. Not sure of limit, but cheap buy-in. Have fun.

Answer 2:

When you get into town grab a “what’s on” magazine or CP. it has poker rm #’s no limit poker tourneys ,Las Vegas. Mirage- $60 Tuesday Orleans Tue 7pm -$20, sun noon- $20, fri 7pm -$60. Plaza, Tue & Fri 7pm -$20. Stratosphere Sun & Wed 8:30 pm- $33

Answer 3:

That’s a little more expensive, or can be — unlimited $40 rebuys in the first hour do tend to swell the prize pool.

Answer 1:

Where I’ve played, you must keep your chips on the table. I have not heard or seen a case where some are missing. But I wouldn’t doubt that it has happened somewhere. What I think is interesting, in the pot limit games like in Tunica and Kinder, they not only have chips on the table but thousands in paper money…..and they leave it all on the table when they take a break.

Answer 2:

I come from the school of thought that says your money is never safer then when it is in chip form. No tax, and lots of security cameras. But… i also remember the old saying of a great. Trust everyone but cut the cards. Seriously though, you can do whatever you want, but the standing rule in most casinos is that you must put back on the table whatever you took off it, if you are to return to play.

Answer 3:

In Atlantic City if you take all of your chips off the table, you will lose your seat. The chips are what hold your seat. The same is true if you go to eat. If you have $500, you can take off part of the money; say 450, but when you return you have to put the $450 back on the table. It is relatively safe to leave money on the table and leave for an hour.

Answer 1:

I think a free card here is a mistake.  You have top pair with a flush draw. You should definitely bet here since you likely have the best hand. If you get check raised by a lucky sickout or perhaps another 9 with a better kicker you still have a good chance of winning the hand on the river.

Answer 2:

Maybe I have been playing too much Omaha 8 lately but I would tend to just check in the situation.  You are probably ahead here, but you are just asking to be revered here. Any A,2,4,6,7,8 will probably straight someone in a low limit game,  You cant be happy if an over card hits and you are far away from winning the hand if your runner flush hits.  I may be in the minority but I toss you hand after the flop.  I think you are in real trouble, unless you are heads 
up with this hand. 

Answer 3:

I think you really need to consider the players and the board. 

1) If the board provides other draws (say it was 9s5s3h5h) then you should be more inclined to bet.  There are more reasons for somebody to have called on the flop then just their 2nd pair.  Even with 8s5c3h somebody with A4 would call on the flop.  Don’t give those draws a free card. 

2) Think about the players in early position.  Are they straightforward?  Many players at the lower limits just “bet their hand”.  If one of those guys checks he might as well have told you he doesn’t have a five.  If there is a tricky player who might 
check-raise and make you think about it then tend to check although I think this is weaker then the tendency to bet in #1.  With your flush draw and 2 9 outs you can easily call the one bet (already 5 bets or so). 

3) Are they predictable?  If you got check-raised and you didn’t have the other outs could you fold without much worry?  If so then think about betting. 

4) Think about the preflop action.  A board of AK2K is a board many will bluff at but if there wasn’t any preflop raise your weak ace out of the blinds is likely to be good since many more Kings get raised preflop then (say) jacks (board: AJ2J should be scarier). 

5) I tend to check more on the river in these circumstances then I do 
on the turn.  The reason being that on the river the paired fives is 
going to be as scary to my opponent as it is to me.  If I bet I’m only 
going to be called by a stronger then normal hand.  I have to have a 
pretty strong hand to make this bet.

Answer 1:

They had one and or two tables of 8-16 and that replaced the 10-20.
I was told that the 8-16 is a better game because of the “number” of chips in the middle (mostly $2 chips were used) keeps people in. I also believe that they will start a 10-20 game if there is enough interest but did not see one going.

Answer 2:

There hasn’t been a 10/20 holdem game since 8/16 started and the 8/16 game has been going strong every day. The majority of players feel it’s a greater value.

Answer 3:

But what if the only reason that they are spreading 8/16 is because loose players are attracted to the 4 chip 8 chip betting structure, not because it would be fair to the jackpot players? OK, then what if half of the players are playing the 8/16 for the 4 chip 8 chip structure and half are playing for the free roll on the jackpot?