I would say the golden nugget bc it has antes. I don’t like harrahs bc there are no antes in play. Can’t go wrong with harrahs or golden nugget though I feel.
Harrahs is great if you wanna get drunk. The waitresses come around a lot i feel when compared to the nugget.

Well, since you asked so nicely...

Wound up at Harrah's because it was the best value and also because it was the latest which gave me a chance to get dinner with my wife and kid. Since we didn't give any play to the Hard Rock despite getting a tier-matched room (no poker!) it was the least we could do. I did use a $25 coupon that was emailed to me which cut my $100 meal at Song by 25%. It was solid high-end Chinese food. My Black Pepper NY Striploin with Asparagus was reasonably priced and quite good.

The tournament was a bust. Just couldn't get anything going. Won a small hand with AQ with a CB on the flop against one player. Literally the only hand I won. Got short when I raised to $5k at $600/1200 with AJs after a couple of limpers only to be reraised. I had to either fold or shove and folding made the most sense. Finally with about twelve BBs I shoved on the button with A6s although I did notice the UTG player limped. I thought he was terrible and trapping but I decided I couldn't fold a suited Ace in this spot but he snapped with AK and I was done. It was not long after the rebuy period ended. I think it got 58 runners.

I drove over to Ocean AC since they have the best comps plus I seem to have managed in one previous weekend of a few hours of $1/2, a small amount of slots, and dropping $100 in blackjack to get a legit Gold card (and $25 in slot play). I cashed out with $5 and played $1/2 for a few hours. I would have played longer but the wife dropped by and spending time with her seemed like a better option so I racked up $90 in the hole.

Since we had our teenager with us we wound up the next day taking in Bohemian Rhapsody at the Tropicana IMAX. He wanted to see it. I love Queen and thought the movie was well done but the factual inaccuracies and the way that dead people were made the villains and unable to defend themselves (and also the fact that it wasn't a *real* IMAX, you know, the kind with the round ceiling and superb sound) made me internally grumble. But the kid and wife enjoyed it.

Made the mistake of walking back on the boardwalk in the rain. Sucked. Should have Ubered but by the time I made that determination I was already soaked. Dumb ass.

We hit the noodle bar at the Hard Rock for some desperately needed Pho. It was okay, the noodles were a bit sticky and the beef got more done than I like but it was strong and hot which was important at that point.

Overall not a stellar trip and without poker I probably won't visit the Hard Rock again. Hoping I can get some offers from Ocean AC in the winter months as that is likely my best shot since Harrah's doesn't seem to care anymore (I cannot gamble on playing my way into a room), the Trop and Nugget don't give rooms away for poker players and I cannot play at the Borgata due to my job.

Nice trip report!

I like Com Ga Ninh Kieu for Pho on Sunday mornings. Get the beef on the side

Thanks for the trip report, NYC. Sorry to hear that you lost, but you provided tons of good info in there. My favorite nugget is the bit about Bohemian Rhapsody, which confirms my leaning toward not seeing it. I was hopeful and excited when I first heard about it, but the factual inaccuracies you mentioned along with the omission of many interesting aspects of Mercury's life made me much less enthusiastic. Thanks for confirming that it's at best a Netflix/Prime thing for me and not a must-see theater thing.

Trop does

What does it take? I haven't played there much except for one time when I wanted to do a tourney on the Boardwalk and wound up playing cash when they only had one table and I was an alternate who was never called. I left up a bit and might have stayed longer if I knew a room offer could be had.

for Trop comp room offers: average daily play 4-6 hours. More if you want weekend offers...you can
Also get comp room offers at Ocean Resort, if you put in the hours, the place was packed on Saturday..

I get to AC from upstate NY 5-6 times a year. I occasionally play at the Trop, but usually not. For some reason though, they continue to send me free rooms (mid-week) and free show tickets. Sometimes I get to use them. Just this month they've sent me several room offers for 1 or 2 nights mid week and at least 3 free show offers. Wish I could take advantage of them.

I haven't really played there much, either, but get mid week room offers. 4-6 hours should do it.

Trop is very nitty in my experience.

Recently I put in some long sessions, probably 10h/average and that is because 1/2 games simply die, not enough players in the room. Otherwise my sessions would be longer.

I got mid week rooms once per month. But the resort fees are stupidly high and the rooms they give you are in West tower - just a hair better than motel quality. (And mid week you can get 30-50 motels all along the highway without any play.)

Lastly, despite all my play they locked my account for either picking up a $10gc or playing a free slot tourney on a day i did not play poker. I did this 2-3 times. Very nitty. They did unlock my account but basically, Trop does not not care to make a successful poker room IMO.

Not sure why anyone would set foot in trop poker room. God awful.

Not much different than rest of AC poker, Borgata excepted. Its better than the filtlhy Ballys dungeon...

It is quiet and TVs are watchable. They have free redbull. My biggest annoyance is that tables do not have usb chargers. (And charging station is not capable of "fast charging")

Does Bally's still run a $1/$1 game? PokerAtlas doesn't have it listed.

Thanks

No, Not in like 5 years

Yeah, but the action at Bally's/WWW is WAY better. I'd play those players in a landfill if I had to.

Thinking about heading to Ballys/WWW or harrahs this weekend.

Any updates on the room, stakes, action?

What are some of the promotions the cet properties offer poker players, in terms of room rates or comps?

The Bravo app is your friend. And a useful tool.

Is Borgata the only casino in AC that doesn't rake if there there no flop?

Also, is there any sort of analysis of rake impact on live wirates? I've been to places like Sugarhouse and while it feels like a great game, it's a lot of small stacks and 5+2 rake... Intuitively I know it makes a big difference but I don't know how much.

There's been a ton written about it (certainly full chapters in books, I wouldn't be surprised if there are books dedicated to it).

A quick google search gives a ton of results. I thought the first result was a pretty good summary: https://www.pokernews.com/strategy/l...ges-28692.htm; not specific to impact on individual winrate, but rather just the total impact of dollars taken off the table over time.

I think his math is a little off in the average rake is probably < $4 even if the average pot size is $40, but overall seems like a decent summary.

According to this post, Harrah's/Bally's is also NFND. I haven't played anywhere but Borgata in ages, so I can't verify.

I am 99% sure this is correct, but I'll verify on my next trip to a CET casino

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Harrah's is NFND. Played there last 3 months ago or so and it was that way.


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I stopped playing at Ocean because the rake before the flop.

Yeah, 2.50 or 3 dollars of rakeback per hour sounds nice until you realize how they fund it. I don't know about Tropicana, but no other poker room in AC rakes preflop.

When did Ocean start doing this??? I wasn't aware they ever did this.

Someone else did say they make you post now when first sitting down and that just started a few weeks ago, I believe.

Correct