Did twin river expand the poker room yet? Last time I went earlier this year they had a curtain and what looked to be early construction on a bunch more tables...

Yes the expansion is complete.

Was wondering how often 5/10+ runs and how many tables run(weekdays and weekends). I saw a few posts back that it does run but nothing about frequency. Also wondering how many tables there are of 2/5 usually.

Is there anything that has live info like the bravo app for this place?
Thanks all

5/10 is available from noon until whenever the game breaks at like 3am every single day

no bravo, but you can call and ask.

How many 2/5 NL games are running during the week? (Monday-Thursday) on average...

What time do they start? What time do they usually end? All night?

I had never seen less than 2 2/5 games running any day or time of the week until I was there a week ago during the Pats game in which there was only 1 game running. I have been there a lot on weeknights the past year and between 2pm and 2am on a decently regular basis, so I think it's safe to say they at least run during those windows. Hopefully someone else can comment on if it actually does run 24/7/365.

As previously mentioned the new school year is upon us. Has anyone noticed a influx of young college kids wearing JWU, Brown, RISD shirts/hoodies who are trying their luck on the felt in recent weeks? I'm looking to punish the weak.

They're definitely around, not wearing hoodies necessarily.

Does Twin River give out rewards points for table games or poker? I seem to remember reading it was a different balance than slot play, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. When I look on the mobile app. all it lists is "tier points". Planning to go to Fred and Steve's tomorrow night, and want to see if I can put anything towards the bill.

You definitely get points for playing at the poker tables. Somehow they differentiate, but I don't know what the deal is. I've only ever played poker.

Twin gives 1 point per hour for poker. You can't check the balance through the digital kiosk, you have to ask for your balance at the rewards desk. The poker and table game point balance is separate from the slot point balance.

^^^ this

You can’t get your table game balance from the kiosk you’ve got to show ID at the rewards desk

I had heard something like this before, thank you for the confirmation. I wonder if they make it like this to encourage people yo play the slots more, or if their system actually can't combine the points. It would be nice to check point balances from home or the app, a la Foxwoods or Mohegan, but at least the Player's Club lines are usually not that long, so it's only a minor inconvenience.

Thinking of practical differences between slot and table game point that could cause technical issues, 1 slot point = 1 cent whereas 1 table game point = 1 dollar. I believe there may also be some differences on how and where the different points can be used. Lastly, slot points are earned automatically whereas table game points require human intervention.

I went to TR for the first time on Sunday, as I had to drop my sons off nearby and had a couple of hours to kill. Parking was easy but they sure don't go out of the way to let folks know where the room is, and the location - although great for lack of exposure to smoke - isn't conductive to people deciding to give poker a try.

I was seated at $2/$5 immediately, and I found the tables fine but the lighting terrible. I could hardly see the suits of my cards. Open seats weren't timely filled, and this was when the lists were 1-5 people deep, so I can imagine how bad that must get. Dealers were slow and so were players. Part of what I like about 2-5 is the faster pace of play but not in this case - slow on every hand. Dealers were probably a notch below the average for one of the charity NH poker rooms, but not by any means terrible.

The games are soft - that much is apparent. And I can see how they'd splashy during more peak hours, but I'm not a fan and won't go out of my way to play there. I also can't see how this room will remain any sort of go to destination once Wynn opens.

Yes, the lighting continues to be a challenge. I've expressed my frustration with it to the floor managers on all three shifts, but while they all acknowledge it is bad, none of them seem very hopeful that it will change.

I live nearby, and I don't anticipate going elsewhere even when Wynn and MGM open, but I am concerned. The room needs to turn things up a couple notch if it wants to keep its good games when competition arrives. They need to improve the lighting, improve drink service, and do a better job of educating their floor staff.

They also need to think about how to utilize their entire room. The six new tables they put in - which have the best lighting in the place, BTW - are only used on Friday and Saturday, and then only at night. Why not run tournaments over there during the week? They should be running a full schedule of tournaments - mornings and afternoons for sure, and probably evening tournaments Monday through Thursday. I already hear the gut reaction I'll get if I suggest this - "we don't have the staff" - but really, they need to figure it out or they will not have anything to draw in customers reliably once Wynn opens.

The gut reaction should be....we don't have COMPETENT staff. With all the S**tshow antics this room has displayed since opening, would you want to play a meaningful poker tournament here?

I understand your concern, but I'll be honest that I think it's overblown. I've been playing in the poker room since the room opened in 2015. I've gotten to know a lot of the staff, and I've worked out how the room is operated. There's five kinds of staff in the Twin River poker room. Let's look at each and how they do:

DEALERS - I have said before that the dealers are generally adequate. There are a few that are excellent. The are a few that are terrible. Even today, they have a lot more new dealers than most poker rooms have, and this does result in slower games. Errors occur in lower-limit games perhaps slightly more often than you'd like to have, but generally the dealers get better. I'd rate the dealing pool as average. The room is, however, more tolerant of truly bad dealers than they should be.

FLOOR SUPERVISORS - This is the area where the room is hurting most, particularly on graveyard and to a lesser extent swing shift. There is remarkably little experience in the whole lot of supervisors. This is undoubtedly due to Twin River's insistence that the supervisors work in the pit as well. This results in the room being staffed by pit supervisors who happen to do a little poker. While they sometimes make bad decisions, these are generally correctable if the floor manager can be brought over. The bigger concern is that the supervisors have a pit supervisor attitude and don't understand how to work with, pamper, and flatter poker players. So many of them are totally taken aback when a poker player questions them or (god forbid) asks for something. They really need an attitude adjustment. And they don't always feel an urgency to fill empty seats. And it does not appear to me that the floor managers really have the authority to discipline them. I'd rate the floor supervisors as mildly below average, certainly not as bad as some of the charity rooms in RI, NH, and MA. They are not of the quality of Foxwoods or (especially) Mohegan. I'd note that both day shift and swing shift has experienced poker floors who have run real tournaments before.

FLOOR MANAGERS - These are the shift managers of the poker room. Like the floor supervisors, they generally also work in the pit. That being said, there are some more experienced floor managers who have worked in poker. Swing shift has two very good ones, and there is a good one on day shift as well. The floor managers on graveyard are generally knowledgeable but all have attitudes. While the floor managers are in charge of the shift, their ability to discipline their staff is limited, and they might admit that in an unguarded moment. Quality varies, but is generally good. Swing shift quality is excellent, and at least one of them has substantial major tournament experience. Day shift is good. Graveyard is so-so.

CASINO SHIFT MANAGERS - Calling them "Casino" shift managers is misleading, they are only in charge of table games. But anyway, there is one on each shift. Generally, they do not come in the poker room very often. They generally don't want to be involved in the day-to-day operation of the poker room and want the floor managers to run it. They are only involved if there is a major issue (theft, some fights, a major dealer disciplinary matter, or a customer issue that can't be handled by the floor manager). These are the people who can make a difference when it comes to who is assigned to work in the poker room....learning who they are and speaking to them nicely can pay dividends over time with staffing issues. However, even they don't make fundamental changes in how the poker room is run. Generally, they are good people but don't really directly affect how the poker room is run operationally but have huge effects on staffing. None of them, to my knowledge, has real poker experience.

TABLE GAMES DIRECTOR - I've never actually met this person, but I'm told it's a "he". Apparently, he is the one who can make changes. In 2 years, I've never seen him in the room, but the floor managers do say he comes by once in a while. My knowledge of what he does is limited, but the floor managers make it sound like he is the ultimate authority. All rule changes go through him. He was the one that expanded the room and got the phone charger. He is also the one who apparently doesn't want tournaments and has structured the way that everyone works in both poker and the pit. I give him kudos for opening a poker room, but he doesn't give poker all the attention it needs to thrive.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think a good poker tournament can be run if the right staff is put in charge. I'd tell anyone who asks that their best bet is to take an experienced floor manager who knows poker and make them the poker room manager and give them the authority to make changes and add the tournaments. Will this solve all the problems overnight? No way. But I think it would be an improvement. They need to start thinking about what will happen when MGM and Wynn open. They don't want to be behind the eight ball when those places open.

The lighting is horrible in there no question

Had a smh moment last time I was there:

I raise 77 utg to 10 and after a couple folds the next guy reaches into his pocket to get a hundred to add onto his stack. This is after I raise and after 2 other people fold. I'm like wtf are you doing and dealer says he had less than minimum of 60 so there is nothing wrong with this. I'm like listen I'm not Mr. rules nit here, but you can't add to your dang stack after action has already happened.
Dealer is basically laughing that there is nothing wrong with this and I say to her that that is ridiculous. I keep it light-hearted and laugh it off, but she was actually acting like I was in the wrong there. 3-4 people agreed you can't do that, and then floor came over and said 'hey how about we move on and play some poker' and she didn't even address the issue at hand.

The room is just very poorly run. It could be so much better. As of right now, TR has no idea how to run the poker room as a whole.

And yet people ITT continue to say "they should have tournaments" or, even more laughable, "they should have PLO"

smh

They can't have PLO or any kind of Omaha for that matter; it is not in their state regulations.

As for tournaments, why not? There's nothing wrong with a 10 player sit and go or a $50 buy-in, 60 player tournament. I'm not suggesting they run a WSOP event.

Name me one poker room that runs regular SNGs?

60 player tournament? The TR floor staff would have no clue how to manage that. Do you think they're attentive enough to make sure every table goes up a level at the same time? That they even will balance tables properly?

They can't fills seats in a timely manner and you think they'll handle more complex processes?

And forget about getting a tournament clock on the TVs, that won't happen. Who'll keep time? each dealer?

Please. Come into the real world.

This.

They wouldn't know to move the next big blind in an MTT, and then they'd let him sit anywhere on the other table.
They wouldn't know how to race off chips.
They wouldn't hold the clock on a chop discussion.
They wouldn't know the 100s of little things that any competent TD would know from experience, since they do not have any. And, they hire a bunch of Uncle Charlies and nieces from Cranston, instead of anyone with poker room experience.

Remembah.. weeer tawkin' Linkin Rode Islannn here....not fabulous Las Vegas. I know. I moved out to Sacramento from North Provvvv.

You speak of Fabulous Las Vegas like they know what they're doing here.

Prime example, Flamingo a guy was stealing chips and putting into play constantly. WHY? Cause tournament director couldn't care enough to count the chips in play at end of tournament.