thanks for the info...definitely gonna check this place out Friday for the noon and 7pm guarantees...

Any update on the Mid-Atlantic Poker Championship schedule?

Shocked they didn't put in a HORSE or some sort of omaha8 event. Lost my interest really quickly.

. Waited for the schedule to come out for months, only to get this sorry mess of tournaments

When were the dates changed on this? I thought the dates were September 23 - October 5? Now its saying October 14th-26th.

One request for a change to the Mid-Atlantic Poker Championship schedule.

The October 21th PLO Championship looks great. $1,500 seem a little high, but is OK. I request more evening sattys to get in. Or even a 9:00 morning of the event satty. The only satty is October 20 at 11 in the morning.

October 20 7:00 pm is the regular $65 NHLE tourney. It would be great if that could be changed to a satty.

Cost cutting has come to DelPark - the leases on the shufflers are now deemed too pricy, so they've removed about half the auto-shufflers. Hand shuffling will be the norm - may slow things down when these big championship series roll in. And they are doing away with the BBJs.

I'm surprised it's gone on this long. Del Park had a good run before the casinos in Baltimore.

Line on this room closing within the next 12 months?

That's a simply +EV move. If <10 tables are in use 90+% of the time, then why waste money on the shufflers.

Room will not close as long as Del Park itself stays open. I mean what else can they put there? It is not like there are not enough slots or table games compared to the number of visitors...

I would take the over and bet the farm.

Seriously? Perryville was rumored to be closing last Christmas and they are still open!

DP has a nice room and runs great tournaments as well.

All rooms need to take cost cutting measures at some point.

I would also bet the over!

I'd be shocked if they closed any time soon. Getting rid of some shufflers makes sense, but they should not have dropped the slot dollars from 100 to 50 for graveyard or Sun-Tues. I know that was the main thing that ever got me into the room and it seemed to fuel their graveyard games. It seems to me that they could have found other ways to cut costs.

Im planning on taking a trip up there soon. I think the 15K Guarantee on Saturday is a good sweet spot. I hope this place can find a way to make it.

Overall, all the Delaware casinos are getting squeezed by the new competition in MD and PA, so the trims are taking place to right size the cost side against revenues. Remember the days when it was the hotspot for midAtlantic poker and both poker rooms were filled constantly? Now the other room by the slots is just dead space. Using it for special events like the tavern poker series and certainly the October series will instill some life there, but I'm surprised the DelPark high command hasn't converted that room back to slots for revenue generation. The overall business trend for both casino and poker play in that region will be stagnant - the weekly freerolls are a great incentive that sustains the room - and the special tournaments as well. The guts of the operation, the cash games, remain a commodity service that is easily replicated yet needs to be made differentiated with superior staffing, service, comps, food/drink etc. Phasing out the BBJs indicates that they are simplifying the operations and shifting to other sets of incentives. The player talk has been that BBJs draw in out of town players who, when they hit it, take the local regulars' money out and never to return. Incentives aimed at regulars help to sustain volume enough to keep things going. Poker is one of the most personnel intensive and complicated service in a casino - dealing with staffing, scheduling, training, monitoring - and doing that 24/7. So managing the cost side gives an indication on the economic forces that they are contending with and how they are making adjustments.

The DelPark weekly freerolls and the added slot dollars for hours are among the best incentives for regular play anywhere in the country - at least they are making a vigorous effort to compete in a region that is saturated with alternatives and more yet to come (MGM NatHarbor then Philly Live).

Most of the time I am there, the majority of slots are not in use either, so there's not much point converting it to anything, it is probably just cheaper to let it sit there.

As far as cash games go, it is hard to attract people who live near MD Live or near Philly casinos. Granted, I made a trip 6-7 times when $100 graveyard slot dollars promotion was in effect and I will make more trips for bigger tourneys or if the $100 graveyard slop promotion will return at some point.

The real way for Del Park to turn things around would be if Delaware can approve sports betting. Since there are no pro teams, even if there are NCAA ones, the way to go would be for Delaware casinos to push for Sports betting on pro sports only.

Very disappointed that they couldn't even stick one single OE tournament on the schedule for the MAPC. The HORSE and OE tourneys at past events always had decent turnout.

I totally agree. Really tired of only playing Hold-EM. With all the casinos In PA, DE, MD and NJ, I would think a non-Hold-EM event would draw enough entrants.

Anyone seen a structure for the Mid Atlantic Poker Championships? Looking for the Heads Up championship and the Main Event.

Went to delawarepark.com FULL SITE and clicked on poker, then mid atlantic poker championship flyer. Structures and chip stacks shown by clicking on individual events. ( mobile site redirect was not operational.)

Anyone have any idea (ballpark estimates) on how large of a field the PLO championship will have? I've never played a real live tournament, but I'm thinking about playing in it. My guess would be like 100 people. Is that a reasonable guess?

Your first live tourney being a $1,500 PLO tourney...I like your style.

Technically, I've played live tournaments before - a few free ones at local bars when I was a teenager, and one or two home game tournaments. I never have at a real poker room, however. In fact, I've only played a cash game in a real room about a half dozen times. I'm thinking about going here maybe once a week or so, since it's about 25 miles from me, and it seems like 5/5 PLO spreads frequently, based on the Bravo app.

Does anyone know the format for the Heads up satellite

You play heads up until somebody has no chips left? If you're asking about the structure as in blinds and time for level it's probably not very good.

The larger ebents are usually awesome but the Sit N Gos at Delaware Park and have very poor structures historically.