MGM Springfield (Springfield, MA)

PLO games haven’t run in awhile, I’m gonna try starting lists fri/saturdays

I've never heard more people complain about winning a high hand than everyone who's pulled $300 or $500 so far this month in the Mystery High Hand promo. It's free money, and tax-free at those amounts!

Was that you trying to start one last night? I didn't see anyone else sign up for the duration I was there

I’m down for Friday night PLO. Probly gonna be hard to get it going during this July promo. Would love to get it going regularly again tho.

I didn’t make it there last weekend, maybe we can get a game going this weekend though!

Does MGM Springfield have a mobile waitlist? Bravo / Poker Atlas aren’t showing anything. I know it used to be Bravo so I’m wondering if they switched to something else.

MGM Springfield is right there on Bravo. So they definitely have not switched. Not sure why you don’t see them right there.

MGM-S is on Bravo. This is true for every MGM room I know of. None now or ever have turned on the online wait list feature AFAIK.

No room I know of is on both Bravo and PA. I don’t believe such is possible. However, PA does post static data on non-PA sites. PA does have this static data on MGM-S.

TLDR…nothing has changed. They are on Bravo. They dont and never had online waitlist. PA has same static data as always. Nothing has switched.

MGM Springfield takes call-ins, would recommend, they're very accommodating ime

You know what, it was greyed out because when I was looking the room was closed. Didn't realize it wasn't 24 hours.

Has anyone here played the new 5-0 PLO game yet? It seems this is replacing 2/2 with the same buy in structure (300-1000). I was a regular in the 2/2 and straddle to 5 was almost always on. I’m concerned this 5-0 game is gonna be constant straddles to 10 which will kill the game in no time. Sorry to sound like a nit but that will be so bad for the game and will price out most of the field that would formally play 2/2.

I actually like the sound of that structure and would consider going there when I would normally play at parx or fw.

Out of curiosity what problem is moving to a single blind attempting to solve?

I’m assuming it’s to justify taking a promo drop (which is new and wasn’t taken at 2/2).

I think it’s a fine structure but not with a constant straddle. It’s gonna play so shallow and just break the game quickly too often. Occasional straddles are fine sure.

Just saying…alot of mgm action players like to straddle and often make it “mandatory”. That was fine at 2/2/5 but probably isn’t going to be sustainable at 0/5/10.

And they struggled to get a consistent 2/2 game anyway.

It makes it easier to deal and count the pot

The dealer with the braided beard was a nit about rounding down the blinds (his argument is the MGC specifically forbids rounding up). Obviously 5/0 solves that problem.

haven't made it out to MGM in a while, can any regs say whether the PLO goes with any regularity, and if so, what days / times?