Game Selection

At my regular home game on Saturday night, we got into a small discussion about Detroit poker rooms. Someone agreed with me that Motor City is the nicest room, but they also said that the players are tougher at MC and Greektown has the softest games.

To be perfectly honest, I never really compared the 'toughness' of the $1/$2 NL games. Most because I've always thought that $1/$2 is the same at every casino. I just go to different places for some variety.

Since I keep track of my poker wins and losses in a database, it's very easy to make a query to compare results. So I did some poking and prodding, and came up with some surprising results.

I used results from the last few years for all Detroit rooms, as well as Mountaineer since it's just as close.

I have to use a disclaimer. Since these are using a small sample size, the numbers could change drastically if my next session at any room is either +$500 or -$300. But these are the numbers I have, so that what I'm gonna use.

Motor City: 18 sessions (8-10 .444) $248 profit ($13.78 avg)

MGM Detroit: 17 sessions (9-8 .529) $960 profit ($56.47 avg)

Greektown: 13 sessions (8-5 .615) $890 profit ($68.46 avg)

Mountaineer: 38 sessions (24-14 .632) $4014 profit ($105.63 avg)

Well, I was obviously wrong. Looking at these numbers, I have no reason to go back to Motor City, except for the "free room" offers. Greektown seems to be the best results. I know that MGM is also great on weekends, but super tight on weekday afternoons.

And since I've been getting so many "free room" offers from Detroit, I have only been to Mountaineer only a few times in the last six months. That's something that I need to fix.