You can't combine time but if you both have your own player cards, both play 5 hours you can request the poker rate and each get your own room at that rate.

This was not poker related, more than likely July 4th related, nevertheless, when I stopped into Ballys because they were giving 5x reward credits, this happened just after the fireworks.

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/n...cc4c03286.html


Vineland teen, Bridgeton man wounded in shootings on Atlantic City Boardwalk

The gun was found in Ballys bus station. oh well. That is the closest I've been to a shooting.

Played yesterday, approx 4:30 to 11:30 again. Received 141 Tier Credits ($1/1) so that's still in line with what I'd been receiving all through June. But yet again only 692 Rewards Credits. They always say Wed 8pm is double comps, but I've never once actually gotten it.

Just spoke to someone in the poker room about this. Seems it's wrongly worded on the website. Bally's AC website says:

However, the poker room says it's not double comps specifically, but $1 added for each hour (at all games) and it doesn't show up until 7-10 days later.

played this week there. Was disappointed that 2/5 does not go! More disappointed that the floor doesnt help. I wanted to put my name on the list with the other 5 players.
Floors words were "that game will not go" I said I would be 6 plus when players see 6 names they also might want to play. Floor did not put my name up!!

One problem they may be having with 2/5 is that the buy-in is too high. Especially when you cant get a game ever going.

Mayve make it $200-$600. I think it will make a big differance and the games will go.

Its worth a shot being there is no game now anyway. Ifg players want the hight buy-in they will just goto borgata or others.

Lets try it!! I will be down 1-2 nights a week and would like to see a game go

the 2/5 gets goin most saturday nights. normally a good game when it does happen. the $1000 buy-in lets you know who came to play. iv seen nights were avg stack was over 1k and nights where there was less than 3k on the table.

-2/5 @ ballys is hit or miss and basically only on saturdays
-weekday 2/5 probably only at taj or borg
-saturday 2/5: ballys, caesars, trop, taj, borg. saw an interest list @ showboat the last saturday i was there

It may go more often if players arent being told by floor at registration "game will not go" and not put your name on the list. What if that happened to 4-5 people? There goes the game

i think harrahs gets some 2/5 action on the weekends too. you could try that place out. they might have a better attitude towards interest lists during the week

Things must be a little slow over "yonder" if the pm's are reaching out to ballys players....just saying

Doesnt Harrahs get a 2/5 table going almos every day? I havent been there in about two months, so maybe things have rapidly deteriorated.

i think they do have 2/5 daily. i havnt been over there in a while myself. gonna try to play a few hours there this weekend

I had a similar thing happen to me I asked if they ever get an omha game and they laughed at me! I said could you put up an interest list and was told we never have the game.

ppl in borgata complain that the buyin is too low and ppl in bally complain the buyin is too high

Wednesday is double tier point and comp dollar night I believe so it does get off some of the time. But if you go there expecting to play sometimes it doesn't get off and you have to be prepared not to play it. It doesn't always run in other words.

will be there late wed night-friday

I understand, butwhen a casino cant get a game running...probably the limits are too high for that casino.

2/5 should be a bridge between 1/3 and 5/5 at ballys.

1/3=$100-$300
2/5=$200-$500
5/5=$300-$1000

Yes...these maybe low for the Borgata, but will fit in perfect for a casino like Ballys

1/1 PLO would be the nuts

dont try to spread new games in ballys. it wont work

Not in some time, actually.

Lee

Yes, I've stopped by several times this summer on double comp night and 2-5 didn't go, but based on what I've seen so far I'm not sure I'd want to play 2-5 NL there. I played a little of the baby 1-1 game and a little of the 2-4-6 limit game and in the handful of hours I was there I saw two extremely illogical floor rulings. I've read before that Bally's has weird rules and my play there certainly didn't contradict that:

1) Very drunk guy at 2-4-6 keeps trying to raise preflop by saying "5" and putting out a $5 chip. Dealer says that saying "$5" without saying raise is just a call because there is no such thing as a $5 bet in that game. Someone says oversized raise is usually deemed a regular raise, so she calls floor who confirms that since there's no such thing as a $5 bet in that game, if he doesn't say raise, the oversized chip rule applies and it's a call. During the next down, drunk guy is still saying "$5" and putting out a $5 chip, so new dealer calls floor, and this time, same floorman rules that since he's raising more than required, when he says "$5" and tosses out a $5 chip, it's a raise.

I don't have any sympathy for the drunk who couldn't make things easier by simply saying "raise" after being told multiple times to say "raise" rather than "$5," but a floorman who makes two different rulings on the same issue in the space of 20 minutes, described to him in the exact same manner by each dealer, is flat out incompetent.

2) A unique "Bally's rule." Again at 2-4-6, where the minimum buy-in is $40, guy B comes over to talk to his buddy A, who is playing in the game. A decides to quit and let B have his seat. A gives B the $30 of chips he just took off the table, wanders off, and B takes out $10 in cash and tries to buy in for the $40 minimum. Dealer calls the floor over, and I assume it's to make sure that B isn't jumping the list if there is a list, but no, the issue is that "you aren't allowed to sell chips to another player." So the floor tells B he isn't allowed to play with the other $30 in chips because you can't buy chips from another player, and he needs to come back with $40 in cash. What a completely illogical interpretation of the rule about passing chips, since even if B didn't have $40 in cash, he could simply go to the cashier with the $30 in chips and sell those for the required $30 in cash the floor wanted him to buy-in with rather than A's chips.

At first I thought, who cares, it's just $2-4, in the first case the player's drunkenness caused the problem and in the second case, the player wasn't harmed at all by the ruling, but the total contradiction between the two rulings in 1) and the completely illogical ruling in 2) make me averse to playing a bigger game like $2-5 NL there.

There were some other minor issues with the floor there, and one of the regs told me that they recently had fired all (or most) of the floormen and that there are a lot of problems with the current ones, which is certainly not the type of room where I want to play. At one point, a supervisor was called over about some minor issue and her exact words were "I have no idea, this is my first time up here in 2 years."

Played 2/5 at harrahs last night. Buy in was 100-500

I've been playing there once or twice a week since May and to be fair some of them aren't bad, some are sorta indifferent, but yes, some of them act like you're bothering them sometimes. They seem to really not like signing people in for a while. I did seem to see a lot of new faces for the 1st time yesterday.

One kinda funny/sad story from last night.....guy had been sitting at the table for about 2 orbits (20 min) called one of the new guys over and told him the other guy said he'd be right back to take his card, but disappeared. Asked the new guy to sign him in. New guy kinda scolds him and says you have to wait your turn. Wait your turn to sign in? He says yes, there is a list to be signed in. WTF?? Whole table convinces new guy that this player had been here a while now and he seems agitated as he finally takes the card, just as we see the other guy who was supposed to sign him in wander by aimlessly with no intent of doing anything important.

Also asked a couple of people at the desk last week about the $300K promo that's supposedly replacing the 50 hour $50K freeroll. They didn't understand it either. Anyway, looks like you have to play 20 hrs per entry for the next month. Then you have to come back and activate your entries which are printed and active the day after you activate. So no good unless your going to be there for 2 consecutive days. In other words, useless to me.

Also, there was a 2/5 list last night with about 6 players through most of the night, but never got called.

And what is 2/4/6? Does it play more like a 3/6 than a 2/4? I always assumed the game was a normal 2/4.

yeah the ballys floormen are the worst. they act like they are too busy to swipe your card. thats why i stopped going there. caesars is like that too

Re: the "no intent of doing anything important," that was definitely the impression I got of all of the staff other than the employees who work for tips. There was a Seven Stars card holder in one of my games who asked for SportsCenter to be put on one of the TVs, and he was ignored for literally three hours. I joked that he'd need to get up to Eleven Stars before they'd let him watch his channel of choice.

2-4-6 is just 2-4 with a $6 bet on the river rather than $4. I don't recall having played in a game like that before, so I sat down for a few hours rather than leave so I could add that one to my list. I don't really know what the difference is between 2-4 and 3-6 these days, when I play limit it's usually somewhere between 5-10 and 20-40 (or the 4-8 at Parx), but the game was as soft as 2-4 games have always been.

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Also, there was a 2/5 list last night with about 6 players through most of the night, but never got called.


will be in the room tonight ...probably on the 2/5 list that will never get called.