Seems like this news has happened pretty fast, cardschat just released an article today about it reopening.
https://www.cardschat.com/news/westg...e-locale-49595
I never played in this room while it was running, but I would imagine during NFL season especially it could prove to be fairly soft. I'll break down the facts of everything I could find out thus far:
Comps/promos: $1/hour comp rate.
Periodically throughout the day, $50 paid for the highest hand in the preceding 30 minutes, times vary. Seems kind of weird but OK cool I suppose.
"Neighborly High Hand" promo: $75+$25+$25 for straight flushes. $300+$75+$75+$25+$25 for Royals.
Freerolls: qualify with 20 hours Mon-Fri for a Saturday $2500 freeroll.
Play 12 hours Saturday-Sunday for a $1000 freeroll on Monday mornings. Locals who use their comp dollars get the buffet for $5 Sunday through Thursday. I think the Saturday-Sunday promo freeroll is an interesting idea, not sure if other rooms do this? Obviously, a lot of tourists leave on Sunday or Monday so I wonder how well this would work out.
The room manager says in the article they want to start giving away buffets and restaurant credits at just 3 hours of play which seems pretty nice.
It will have 6 tables with some large flat screen TVs in the room.
Tournaments: In addition to the freerolls, they will be running $40 tournaments daily at 11 AM and 7 PM. No mention of guarantees.
Games offered: Looks like fairly low stakes to start: 1/2 NL, 2/4 Limit and 3/6 limit with some "occasional" PLO. Nothing about rake thus far, but with highhand promos and the freeroll I'd guess not less than $4+$1 and maybe $5+$1. Will update.
It's on PokerAtlas and is one of the few ones in Vegas that looks like it will be connected live to PokerAtlas for tournament clocks etc. Not really relevant but I thought it was interesting as you open Pokeratlas and Westgate shows up at the top because of this feature.
Any insight or feedback on if you think this room will be able to stay up? It's the fourth time in the Westgate History that it's opened. I'll likely swing by sometime on Wednesday (8/9/17) just to see the turnout.
Last edited by Bikeking19; 08-08-2017 at 02:21 AM.
Reason: How many tables.