Thanks for all the kind words of support Chk!!! Additional shufflers have been discussed and hopefully after all the property renovations and additions are complete we can look into making that a possibility.

Great time tonight Frankie!. The room was as full as I have ever seen it with good action at many levels. It is always a pleasure to go to the TS. Keep up the good work! Thank you.

It will be busier than normal too with the BBJ qualifier down to Aces full of Kings.

Thanks for the support GWW, besides the BBJ, the increased High Hands and promos we have been doing have also added to the excitement! yes Snipers we are expecting an increase in traffic now that the qualifier has gotten down to A full of K! hope to see you guys this week!

still no hit on the bbjp? does it drop to AAAQQ?

The BBJ is still alive!!! The minimum qualifier will remain at Aces full of Kings until someone hits it.

Hello Frankie. Thank you for responding to our confusion about exposing a hand while in a heads up pot. Is there an extensive "house rules" page to refer for these kind of things that are up for interpretation?

I appreciate your involvement even when not immediately​ available

Thanks DL, there is a rule book that contains these pages. Let me know next time you are here. We always look to review our rules heer at TS. The room belongs to the players. we enforce the rules and the games run under our direction but I like to encourage guests involvement. That being said some rules are flexible house rules...some are in stone due to submissions to the Gaming Commission. Thank you see you soon!

Does anyone know the rough amount people are playing in the 20/40 Limit and the 5/10 Stud high-low? 50 big bets? 25? Somewhere in between?

Stud hi/lo doesn't run unfortunately. You might be thinking of the omaha 8 game, i dont play it but i think ppl buy in for 20 big bets. Idk about the 20/40.

do they still run the first sunday of the month bounty tournament? it shows up on their website, but when you click the link to the page it gives you an error

Hi ts, yes both the First and Third Sunday of the month tournaments are running. Thanks for the heads up about the bad Gateway, I have IT looking at it now!

The 20/40 runs on the weekends, occasionally during the week and when we are hosting our monthly Main Event Tournaments. Thanks!

It's all fixed now, awesome, thank you! i'll be there tomorrow to play it. love that tournament

Hey Frankie, is it a pipe dream that you guys hold tournament festivals again with some decent guarantees? Turning has done great no doubt offering a solid mtt for different price points with a great guarantee recently on a monthly basis? Any chance you guys ever throw some decent guarantees for one day events where I'm not locked into having to play 2 days.

I just got back from a trip to ac for their borgata deepstacks series and just wish turningstone could offer something like this. Structures were solid and only 1 day events. I feel turning stone needs to up guarantees as they always easily crush the guarantee and please don't give me the weather excuse.

Turning stone can't offer a 150-250 dollar 1 day event with say 30-50k starting stack and 25-30 min levels? Pretty easy to complete a tourny in one day. Just throwing that out there.

Is the Empire State series running this August?

Hello poon, yes it is we are in the process of finalizing dates!

Any update? The website looks bland and lonely with no promotions or tourneys running.

Hello I am also looking for info regarding the upcoming August series at TS. Looking to take a trip back to NY and would like to schedule my trip around this. Can we please get some more information asap at least the dates of the series so I can start figuring out hotels, plane tix, etc.

Sorry for the delay, the website has been getting some upgrades and is not completely up to date. The Empire State Poker Championship will run from Aug.9th thru August 20. details of events will be posted on the website and Bravo soon!

I heard that the bad beat jackpot got hit?! What's the deal?

No sir!...the BBJ is still alive and well, over $350K!

From what I heard board was AAA with one player having AK and the other KK. They thought they hit but it's always been pocket pairs for quads to qualify. And apparently KK doesn't count with three aces on the board even if the other person has different quads or a royal.

Hi tab...Just to clarify, one and only one person on the table thought it hit...everyone else at the table and in the room, including the person who won the hand knew it wasn't a valid hand. As you said, the rule is and has always been, for quads to play in the BBJ you have to have a pocket pair. All the drama that took place after the hand was turned over was completely uncalled for. My thanks to those players who took to Facebook on our behalf to clear up the false statements that were being posted yesterday. Much appreciated!

This hand clearly does not qualify, nor would it anywhere I've played that has a BBJ

But KK v 66 on a AAA66 board wouldnt? Didn't know that.