With reentries, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday each had around 70.

146 entries and counting in the main.

I think this ended up getting 166 entries, 40k + for first

TRIP REPORT
Rolled into downtown Pittsburgh at 6p on a Thursday and gave the Rivers card room a visit after a 3 yr absence. Was thrilled to see they have redone the room in that time and have it thankfully closed of from the nicotine addicts and jingle jangle of the slots.

Room was quite nice, brush quite helpful and given my deep list of drafts consumed - absolutely thrilled with the clean bathroom literally in the poker room. Major mental +ev for that. In short, once you get back to the card room you don't have to deal with the rest of the casino.

As might be expected for a Thursday early evening, the 5-6 1-3nl tables were primarily filled with regs that seemed to know each other. Also meant far fewer tourists like me and fewer still fat-walleted fish . Typical of a lower limit game did have several buying in for the $100 min and only once in a while for the $300 max.

Quality of play pretty decent when I was there and surprisingly, although a couple wanna be nickel-scraping pros, there was plenty of drinking going on which added some fun banter. It also didn't hurt to have an eye-catching tall and curvaceous young blonde at the table. Happy hour meant $2 Guinness pints, but (probably not) coincidentally the waitresses explain about a slow tap to discourage ordering them. Turns out that might have something to do with the tap being a longer walk to another bar for her to fetch them.

Dealers did an efficient job, friendly with the regs and reasonably quick. As a biz traveler found the location downtown quite convenient and unlike a few years ago, there were actually cabs outside and available at midnight unlike the ghost town I experienced previously. All in all a pleasant place to play with an engaging group of players.

Lets try to get 2/5 nl going tomorrow. Why doesn't it go very often? I'm not from Pitt, but I've heard there are some pretty big private games. I didn't know if it was NL or PLO though...

Pearl Jam and Rivers Poker...here we go. After the concert tomorrow night, I'll be looking to donk away some cash. Just curious about the Friday games.. Mostly 1-3 games, as I've been seeing on Bravo? How often does the 1-3 plo game run? I'm assuming it should run on fish Fridays. Any details would be great. Thanks.

There is 5/5 PLO on Fridays. It starts off as a 9 person list that gets seated and then people can sign up at the desk. There is usually 1/3 PLO running at the same time.

Enjoy PJ, my sister is going and then driving to Buffalo with my mother for Saturday's show.

Whatever happened to the o8 game. Does it ever get going anymore?

Mix hasn't gone for a while game died a bit.

I picked this up last night.
Pittsburgh Poker Open Winter Series schedule and structure sheet.

Sweet I'll be there

I'm assuming unlimited rebuys through level 7 like the summer open?

Does anyone know how many runners the $550 got today? What was the pay for 1st?

I heard this weekend that Poker Night in America is coming to the Rivers. The Main Event of the Winter open and a $25/$50 Cash game will be streamed if its approved by the state.

I think it wound up at 47 with a first a little over 10k

Thanks!

Michigan part time NL Hold em poker player that will be working and playing in Pittsburgh for about 2 months starting 11/4.
I was stoked to find multiple poker rooms near Pittsburgh.

Hoping someone could advise me to which days have the best tournaments to play, and which days/times the poker room is busiest..

I play both cash games and tournament, but normally play cash games on the same days as the tournaments I plan to play..

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Any additional info would be much appreciated.

Rivers > Meadows.
The Winter Open will be going on in November and the room will be busy. The only advantage the Meadows has is that you can buy in to the 1/3 game for up to $500 as opposed to $300 at the Rivers.

Do they ever do 3-6 Limit? I was there for the first time Tuesday, and cashed in their 7:15. It was a great venue and much nicer and better ran than Meadows. I've been getting into Limit and figured I'd start with 3-6 if it were available.

It is not possible to beat 3/6 LHE in the long run. Personally, I wouldn't waste your time.

they offer it and/but 4/8 limit games run a lot when bad beat is higher

Some more info posted about PNIA.
http://www.pokernight.com/tournament...ino-pittsburgh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-OMD...ature=youtu.be

An added bonus: Joe Cada, the 2009 world poker champion has committed to attending the Rivers Casino event, along with Darvin Moon, the runner-up to Cada that same year. Both will play in the Main Event and a high-stakes cash game. This will be the first-time since that epic night four years ago since the two players have faced off. Also, Greg “Fossilman” Raymer, the 2004 world champion will be in attendance.

The 11-day tournament series concludes with a high-stakes cash game, which will be filmed for television on a delayed broadcast. Although the cash game is by invitation-only, anyone who wants to play will be considered. Players must be willing to buy into the cash game (No-Limit Hold'em with blind levels at $25-50) with their own money. The buy-in ranges from $5,000 (minimum) to $20,000 (maximum). The cash game will be filmed all day on Dec. 3. Those interested in being part of the high-stakes cash game are encouraged to contact Nolan Dalla at: nolan@pokernight.com

So the rivers has revamped their allocation of the $1 jackpot drop. It used to be something like 50% BBJ, 30% reserve BBJ, 20% royals.

Now, according to their website

VIII. THE BREAKDOWN OF THE $1 CONTRIBUTION IS AS FOLLOWS: 25% TO THE MAIN BAD BEAT, 15% TO THE RESERVE BAD BEAT, 15% TO THE ROLLING ROYALS AND 45% TO THE PLAYER PROMOTION RESERVE.

What the hell is a player promotion reserve? And why is it taking 45% of the jackpot drop? I have a sick feeling that this means 45% of the jackpot drop is going to siphoned off to pay the regulars via some "Play 40 hrs and get a ticket to a drawing" type promotions.

Can't say I have a problem with this ^^^

The bad beat is going to get insanely high every time and the royals get high enough,doesn't really matter what else they will do.