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Originally Posted by sohoskiracer
Back in NYC entire summer from Canada, so haven't played in a while and looking to hop on a bus to head down to AC for a weekend possibly for my "fix" .
Keep reading people talking about rooms getting comped for play and ppl handing out slot comps off the bus. Could someone explain the logistics of this/how it works? (basically sussing out that, If I played most of the day at 1/2 or 2/5 could I get a room comp). My local casinos in Vancouver don't do comps lol.
Aside from that it seems that Revel on Weekends, Borgota or Golden Nugget are the good places to go for poker?
take any bus to a casino and they'll give you at least $25 in slot play. go to a more struggling casino and you can get more (trop will add on discount food vouchers, resorts will give 30, ac club will give 30 and food vouchers, taj was giving out 35 and food voucher but that may have stopped). buses don't go to borgata or revel (high end resorts). i usually take a bus to any casino, find a video poker machine, play my comp dollars and cash out, then go play poker at revel or borgata.
play a good 6 hours or so a day at borgata and you'll start getting free weekdays and discount weekends (but still a couple hundred for summer weekend nights)
play 10 hours at revel and earn a free weekend night.
apparently if you put in a few long sessions at taj you'll get some free weekend offers. specific weekends offered by mail. this is second hand info... i've never gotten them and haven't played a lot there in the last 5 years.
pretty tough to get get free rooms at ceasars properties (showboat, caeasars, harrahs, ballys) but check with any of the rooms for a discount (play a certain amount of hours... get a special rate).
same with tropicana, call the poker room and get a poker rate for playing a certain amount of hours.
i wouldn't put golden nugget at the top of your list for poker action. borgata is king. will pretty much always have more games then the rest of the ac combined and is extremely well run and pretty luxurious. the only room that can match it in comfort and service is revel. revel won't have as many games though but has great action most weekends. it's my preferred room on weekends now. (borgata and revel are also the "nicest" casinos in ac... with golden nugget, harrahs and caesars also being "nice").
after borgata and revel... imo the second tier of rooms are: harrahs (near borgata), showboat (near revel) and tropicana (far end of boardwalk).