Foxwoods Has 45 Stud Players on Waitlists and Zero Tables Open

Stud Isn't Dead. It Just Can't Get a Table.

Foxwoods Resort Casino had 28 players waiting for $1/$2 NLH this morning, but the real story is the 45 names queued across three separate stud games with zero tables running.

As of noon ET on May 22, Bravo showed Foxwoods posting simultaneous waitlists for $1/$5 stud (15 names), $5/$10 stud (11 names), and $20/$40 stud (19 names). Tables open for all three: zero.

Forty-five stud players were waiting across three stakes at Foxwoods, and not one of them had a seat.

The Full Waitlist Picture

Stud wasn't the only game locked out. Foxwoods listed six distinct game types on Bravo at noon, every single one showing zero tables:

• $1/$5 Stud: 15 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 4)
• $5/$10 Stud: 11 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 2.5)
• $20/$40 Stud: 19 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 4.5)
• $4/$8 Hold'em: 13 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 3)
• $2/$4 Hold'em: 12 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 4.5)
• $2/$5 PLO: 6 waiting, 0 tables (median waitlist: 2)

The $1/$2 NLH waitlist of 28 names dwarfed the rest individually, but the combined stud demand topped it. Three stakes, 45 players, all sitting in the same room waiting for a game that most poker rooms in America stopped spreading a decade ago.

What the Ratios Say

Bravo tracks a waitlist-to-median ratio for each game. Foxwoods' $1/$2 NLH ratio hit 11.2x its median, the highest raw number on the board. But the stud ratios tell their own story: $5/$10 stud at 4.4x, $20/$40 stud at 4.2x, and $1/$5 stud at 3.75x. All three are running well above their typical demand.

The $4/$8 hold'em list (4.3x) and $2/$5 PLO list (3.0x) round out a room where every listed game was oversubscribed relative to its norm.

Why It Matters

Find a poker room in 2026 that spreads $20/$40 stud at all, let alone one where 19 players show up and wait. Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT, appears to be running something close to the last multi-tier stud ecosystem in the country: low ($1/$5), mid ($5/$10), and high ($20/$40) all drawing real demand on the same morning.

The catch is that none of it was actually running. Whether this is a staffing issue, a floor-opening sequence, or just early-morning timing, the demand data is unambiguous. Forty-five stud players wanted to play. The room had other plans.

The $2/$4 and $4/$8 limit hold'em lists add another layer. These are games that most Vegas rooms dropped from their boards years ago. Foxwoods still draws for them.

Six games. 104 total names on waitlists. Zero tables. Mashantucket's poker room has the demand. Now it needs the felt.