Headed down Sunday for a few days. Looking forward to it.

Correct. 10-12 cash games mid week. With 20-30 grinders for the morning tournament. To chop 8 ways. Lol

Is it true that you need to clock out at the front podium now to receive comps after playing???


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I believe it's been that way for over a year now, maybe longer!

Yes I went a few weeks ago and I had to retrieve my comps at the front podium.

Not to clock out, just to have comps transferred. If you don't transfer them, they accrue until you do. It's not like the Taj where you HAD to go to the desk on your way out to end your session and get credit for it.

Right?

I believe you are right, I had mine transferred tonight and it was close to 100 bucks. Good to know for the future.

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Anyone know why poker makes you go up? It seems so damn stupid: like just give the dollars in comps right to the card.

I was there this past weekend and never got my comps added to card lol. I probably should have but I’m assuming it was $30 or less so who cares.

Does poker factor into free rooms/ tier credits/ etc at all? I assume poker has a low influence on these factors as it doesn’t generate a ton of money unless a player is putting massive hours of cash game play in. I played video poker and craps this past weekend to try and boost my tier credits/ offers- aka idc if I lost a little money in the process.

I don't think a believable and rational reason has ever been given, but it came up when they merged the Borgata comps system with the larger MGM system right after covid. My guess is they just don't care to invest the time/money/effort in making it all one interconnected system and probably hope some aren't collecting comps because of it.

Poker does accumulate tier credits and comp dollars, it also allegedly still influences rooms and other comps but since covid that's gotten really dry for poker players. Prior to covid, 2 months averaging about 20-30 hr/week of 2/5 got me any two nights a week, I haven't been down consistently since then but from what I hear nobody at low stakes is getting rooms

MGM is all about penny pinching and spending the least money possible, so, the entire system exists in hopes you don't claim the money and use it. It's nothing more, or nothing less. A lot of people don't even realize and let the comps expire or never use them

Damn only 2 nights a week for 20-30 hrs of 2/5 seems weak. I did some punting in vegas last year after a big horse racing score and have gotten solid deals from mgm properties ever since (might have punted 5k in the pit). I still wonder if mtts generate anything- I assume if they do, it’s tiny. I’m mostly an mtt player so never really got anything prior to dabbling in some video poker, craps, sports betting degenning.

The whole comp thing seems wacky. Not sure how a casino couldn’t find a way to have the comps go right to the card with no process of addition. I’m sure they expect people to be lazy and not get the comps (I know I was- I’m sure a lot of folks don’t even know).

Random side note- it kinda annoyed me when players would sit down at cash games and not have a card swiped (the dealers always ask right away to a new player if they have a card). It’s like if you are going to pay a ridiculous amount of rake- might as well take advantage of what the casino gives you back even if it’s extremely small.

It's different at Borgata, for whatever reason, you've only ever been able to book 2 comp night per week on the website. I've heard there's a way around this in person if you are playing a ton (poker and pits), but that's the norm online at least.

As you noted immediately after, it's on purpose. These check ****s won't even fix the escalator in the poker parking lot and just threw a tarp on top of it lol

Oh, so you've never played in NYC before lol

I think some people believe poker hurts their comps (ie if they play mostly tables and slots and dabble in poker it’s better not to log in). Not sure if they are right or not but I’ve heard people say that.

Btw, anyone here think Borgata has went downhill post Covid? I hate being negative but like I got breakfast at the metroplitan. It was ok but idk coffee sucked, breakfast sandwich was meh. Idk in comparison to Vegas, just a subpar experience in food department. Idk how difficult it is to get breakfast right but bad coffee and a mediocre bfast sandwich seem like easy bar to pass if you are the best resort in Atlantic City.

Poker was great so can’t comment negatively on that at least. Felt the tournament schedule needs to be tweaked to be more weekend friendly for the mid to lower buyin players (almighty being a day 3 on a wed or Thursday was kinda lame. It was great for first major series back.


The line was an issue for one almighty stack but I felt they did a good job for most part. I still don’t understand why they don’t have 4-5 tellers working at prime time for tourny entries and cash. If the person handling the cash chip distribution and payout is on break, you had to go to the main cage lol to get chips. Like borgata, come on. You are raking so much damn money in cash games. You are making enough money to pay a teller what minimum wage or close to it. A top resort being cheap like that is just so blah. Casinos take so much money from the general public. At least offer a world class service level to keep people happy.

Food has definitely gone downhill, and it wasn’t great to begin with.

The cage has always been a problem even before the pandemic.

Food has changed for sure.
I don't remember the poker cage ever being closed before MGM took over.

Favorite breakfast:
Casa Taco, downstairs from the poker room.
Grab coffee at Lavazza when you hit the bottom of the escalator.

Bread and Butter if we're in a hurry.
Metro is we're not.

A players rating is based off their daily average. If you are a table games/slot player who puts it in decent and then one day you decide only to play a couple hours of poker then your rating (daily avg) will be hurt. This is every casino with a rating system not only Borgata.

depending on how much you play in the pit this can absolutely be true.
if you're well comped from the pit using your card in the poker room on a day you're not already swiped into the system is a big mistake. the 2 bucks an hour isn't worth dragging your offers down.

the food and service is way worse . a lot of it the mgm effect and some of it is service is just down in general since covid.

I even had one cashier tell me she's "only taking in chips not selling them".
When a few of us on line said no you're supposed to sell chips as well she told us "no it makes sense to do it this way if you think about it." Amazing stuff.

These bean counters think they're saving money not paying cashiers meanwhile they have way less tables running because of it. one table easily brings in 125-150 an hour so for a few hours of one extra table they could pay cashiers for the night.

One guy got pissed off at someone coloring up at the table when he was leaving. Then we told him the guy is coloring up bc the poker cage is closed right now and he couldn't believe it. There are definitely people who came in for this series who had never been to Borgata before and will never come back because of nonsense like this.

not enough people want to go through all the checks to get the gaming license and have a responsibility of handling big sums of money for minimum wage when they can just get a job as a cashier at Wawa or something

and MGM is mortified of throwing a couple of extra bucks their way bc they imagine if the word gets out everyone from janitors to pit bosses would want a raise

it's really dumb when you think about it, but it's the same corporation that would rather lose $100M+ and get a ton of bad rep for the hack than pay $10M to make it go away quietly

You are looking at it from a serious poker player/grinder perspective. Now imagine you are a whale/bad rec who is losing an average of $50-60 an hour playing 2 5NL and does not play more than 10-15/hrs a month. In this case does $2/hr in comps make any difference whatsoever? Also, if you are a successful CPA/Attorney/Corporate executive, maybe you don't want any digital records of you gambling to exist at all? So lotsa legit reasons why people don't use casino player cards similarly to how not everyone has a member card when they shop at your local Shop Rite...

Exactly.

It's also infuriating when dealers want someone's card the second they sit down,start messing with bravo moving people in and out, switching their seats etc before they deal the cards.

Just deal and worry about that crap a few seconds later.

Some regs will grouse about it because it's 30 seconds or so without a hand in play. Some will because some other time *they* weren't allowed to.

But also, fills can take forever, if they're even ordered. If the rack is emptyish and there's no fill button up, I'm likely to offer my chips to the dealer even if the cage is open. A momentary delay is better than the game later dying because the dealer doesn't have chips to sell.

is there a reason why Atlantic city doesn't have chip runners? They never had chip runners as far as I can remember.

they used to at the top section, im sure they still do.

they really should for the full room