Sunday at 6:30:


Delaware Park Casino (12 Live Games)
Harrah's Chester (19 Live Games)
Parx Casino (20 Live Games)
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa (38 Live Games)
Caesars Atlantic City (5 Live Games)
Harrah's Atlantic City (7 Live Games)
Bally's Atlantic City (7 Live Games)
Showboat Atlantic City (7 Live Games)
Revel (2 Live Games)

I assume you meant today - Monday.

It would be interesting to see how the Revel room would fare if the other casinos stopped comping rooms to poker players. Arriving this Friday for a 2 night stay. In the past I have always stayed at the Borgata.

TR: tl;dr.
Got down there Sunday night about 1030pm. Needed to ask about 3 employees cause there were no signs leading toward the room. But after navigating thru the casino, passed the Taco Truck and around the Mussel Bar, I found the escalator and the next flight of stairs that finally led me to the room. The Floor said they purposely dont put up signs cause they want the customers to interact with the employees.

There were about 12 1/2 and 2 2/5 tables. I sat down at a 2/5 for about 4 hours. Was quickly hamstrung by a younger Parx reg sitting to the left of me with a 1k BI stack. I lost a couple of races for approx $700 each and left up a lil less than $100.

Dealers were decent, couple of guys from Parx (christopher) and Michael from Borgata.
The room was a lil dark (not really my liking) but they must have brightened the lights directly over the tables. Tv's are nice and low. They need to add a monitor in the room so we can see the Seating List. They also really need to add a food menu. Its not official, but supposedly they are going to start a Poker Menu from the cafeteria that is right behind the room for room service. The cups for drinks were a lil larger than norm, so that was decent. They needed to be larger, cause there arent cupholders on the tables, so the rail helps balance the larger cups. The tables were real nice and they use the Betting Line as previously disputed. 9 seated is great if you get the 4-6 seat. 1-3 and 7-9 have a terrible leg-base that gets in your way (i'm 6'2"). They'll prolly need to address the legs, cause it gets real uncomfortable with having zero wiggle room for your feet. The fact that your on the 2nd floor and have windows to look down onto the main casino floor was neat, but got distracting when Beyonce's dancers were strutting around.
Sevencard2003, i thought u were the guy that came up to me around 4am and introduced himself?

I played on Sunday and the room had like 12 games running.

There is nothing wrong with the room, not even the location. The signage sucks, right but if the room was in the casino people would complain about the noise.

The room is above the casino, clearly visible from the casino and you can look down onto the casino floor. Quite nice actually.


It's just gonna be hard to compete against the borgata..... Until u give away rooms.

I guess that will take time.

Oh I played 2/5 and I've never seen fish like this except in Vegas... Guy stacking off against 3 barrels on A high flop, without an A. Then rebuying and shortly thereafter 3 betting a 30 raise with A4o and then going all in on flop....


So yea the are reasons to play at this place....

yeah that was me, i thought u said ur name was sal, so i thought bigdawgzuc was someone else.

anyway--ive played there 3 times now and still not lost. was very disappointed tonight to learn they do NOT have safe deposit boxes for players. games are loose. if i had 3x the bankroll id do all my playing there.

games definitely better on the east coast than vegas, all the good players left for vegas to play in the wsop, and the ones who dont take the game seriously have remained in ac.

Thanks for your insightful analysis of east coast pokers. Only 3 sessions of baby poker and you nailed it.

Even though I was at a 1/2 table, one of the dealers said there really isn't too much action during the week. Weekends it should be a great place to spear fish....

Apart from poker, Revel was packed this weekend. I played Sunday. I left around 11:40PM and headed through Taj and resorts to catch my bus. Besides the poker room, Taj was dead, IMHO. Resorts seems a bit better. I could be wrong as I was in a rush.

Sucks??? I think you misspelled "****ing awesome".

Anyone who won't play because the buyin is $100 vs. $60 are people I don't want at my table anyways.

It's just like Ballys Vegas. SOP is recreational player throws down $60 for buyin, gets told min is $100, pulls out $40 more without hesitation.

Revel's $500 max is awesome too.

Questions about the 1-2 tables.

How many people at the table buy in for the full 500? What are some of the biggest stacks/pots you have seen at the 1-2 tables?

In my table this past Sunday two people bought in for the max and most others for less. Biggest stack: the guy left with $1300. He bought in for $500 so netted $800.

I was playing in Seat 1 at your table around 3am. The table was amazing, except that the whales in 2, 3, and 4 ended up profiting pretty big off of suckouts. Also, there were 6 2+2 players at one point (the 3 Asian friends, me, you, the guy in seat 9)

I just saw revel saying they giving 100 for high Hand between 9am and 12....and between 4pm and 7pm......maybe more things to come

$2k stack on Saturday night. Last weekend we had several in the $600-$1k range on the table.

They are just starting with their comps and promos. That's why I wouldn't rule them out right away as some other people did on the thread. Give them about a year. Just my $.02.

I don't think anyone has ruled them out. I think the majority of people expressing concerns (me included) think they have done a poor job in the soft opening of the room and some of those perceptions are very hard to have die.

The last time I was at Revel, there were NO tables going on a weeknight. None.

I'll be back in early July and will be interested if I'll get some time there or if I'll spend it almost exclusively at the Borgata and Harrah's.

What is clear to many is that to get to the poker room, you have to make an effort to go there - and almost a pre-determined effort. That really cuts down on the number of fish swimming. In fact, it cuts down on the entire population of the pond, period.

I hear ya. And there are improvements that still need to be made. Leg room under the tables is a big one!

True there aren't games going on weeknights. They also haven't built a following of regulars yet either.

It seems to me that they will start to change their image with various incentives and comps. They are now comping rooms and matching cards. They are now also starting to run tourneys to generate some traffic. So, let's give them more time. They might come out with better poker player comps too. All I think about when I read the more pessimistic responses is that Borgata poker started in the basement.

Let me throw this out there to Revel should they be reading: being a NYC weekend warrior it'd be great if I could get a room comp on the weekends (fri or sat). I certainly represent an under-served, under-appreciated market. I'm sure I'd make up for it in food, despite my level of play (1/2 NLHE)!

It also seems to me that most people make a determined effort to find their game anyway. Even at Revel Sunday night I heard someone on the casino floor asking an employee where the Baccarat tables were. People also search out their slot machine that they hope will hit. I'm not as sold on the casual wanderer theory as much as everyone else. No doubt that it's a phenomena, just a small one IMHO when it comes to poker. Again, I think of Borgata poker in the basement.

Just my $.02. I respectfully disagree with some of the other points made and even if you disagree with my reasoning I still hope it's respected.

Borgata in the basement also had a little thing going for it called the poker boom - times are a but differnt today.

Lack of signage is really the key issue. I spent a great few hours at a Borgata 2-5 table one Saturday morning a few years ago with a guy who had just won $5k in video poker - he then decided to take his shot at playing "Like the guys on TV" - and he proceeded to lose every last penny in the poker room. Going to be close to impossible for that to happen at Revel, since that guy may not even be aware they have a poker room.

I see two glaring truths about this room...

1. Borgata will always remain the #1 room in the city (and the northeast for that matter)

2. It will not take much to become the #2 room in the city

I am quite surprised that more of the TAJ regs have not gravitated to this room yet, and would imagine as comp dollars/rooms etc change for the better, it will slowly but surely happen.

Eventually I see this as a 10-15 game per night room, with the occasional upswings during tournament series etc...

I just don't see how the TAJ will have more games running than this room six months from now, unless their is a market for people who like dirty chips and garage stabbings.

The people in that market are called degenerates and they play at the TAJ because it is a degenerate paradise.

I played at revel on Sunday for the first time. Like others have said I recognized some dealers from other places and 3-4 from Parx which is my home base. I played from 11-1230 and the from 2:30-4ish up big from the first and decently from the second session playing fairly straightforward. Routinely had people call 3 streets with less than TPTK.

I'm not sure whose 2+2 names are whose as I've sort of been a long time lurker and not too frequent poster here(looking to change that) but I did introduce myself to a notable player who was observing a table I was at around 2 or 3 am so if that is someone who posted above let me know.

as far as I know, they are not comping poker players rooms and are unlikely to as they have very few rooms, way less than the number they advertised pre-opening (because they ran out of money among other reasons) , they have so few rooms available, that it is not possible to comp poker players rooms, is my understanding...

what will be, will be. i don't work there so who knows their plans...