Foxwoods Is Running Seven Game Types Deep. Zero Tables Open.

I counted seven distinct game types with active waitlist surges at Foxwoods Resort Casino on the morning of May 20: $1/$2 NLH (49 names deep), $5/$10 Stud, $1/$5 Stud, $2/$5 PLO, $2/$5 NLH, $4/$8 Hold'em, and $20/$40 Stud.

All seven showed zero tables open. Every single one.

The Room Nobody Talks About

Poker media gravitates toward the Strip and the Florida boom. Foxwoods, tucked into the Connecticut woods in Mashantucket, barely registers. That's a mistake. Name another room in America running three separate Stud stakes on the same morning. I'll wait.

Name another room in America running three separate Stud stakes on the same morning.

Seven Games, One Morning

Let's walk through the numbers. The $1/$2 NLH list hit 49 names against a median waitlist of 12, a ratio above 4×. The $1/$5 Stud list carried 20 names (median: 9). The $5/$10 Stud list had 13 (median: 5). The $20/$40 Stud list posted 10 names, double its median. The $2/$5 NLH list sat at 14 (median: 6). The $4/$8 Limit Hold'em list had 9 (median: 4). And $2/$5 PLO rounded it out at 8 names (median: 4).

That's 123 names spread across seven distinct formats before a single table was dealt.

Why This Matters

Sure, you could argue raw demand at Foxwoods doesn't rival Seminole Hard Rock or Bellagio. Fair. But demand is one dimension. Diversity of demand is another, and on that axis Foxwoods is unmatched. Three Stud stakes running hot in 2026 is borderline anthropological. Stud is supposedly a dead game. Nobody told Mashantucket.

The broader signal here: regional rooms with a loyal mixed-game culture are generating the kind of organic, multi-format demand that Vegas rooms engineer through promotions and festivals. Foxwoods does it on a random morning in May with no series on the calendar.

If you're only watching Bravo in Nevada and Florida, you're missing the most interesting waitlist in America. It's in southeastern Connecticut, it spans seven games, and it's deeper than it has any right to be.