Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the "off steak" (not very flavorful) happens once in a blue moon, and my bad luck with the waiter just compounded things. I'm pretty sure The Homestead is capable of better than that. It was packed with customers by the time I finished so I guess it just wasn't my day.

I looked at their menu and found it tempting. Thanks for sharing. How's their sushi?

i've done some searching and saw that it's not super hard to get comped and discount rooms playing 40-80 limit holdem. just wondering what kind of poker rate i could expect if I show up on a monday night and play 2-5 or 5-10nl. would i have to book the room at the regular rate then get a poker rate while playing? and how long would it take to find out what kind of room comp offers i could get. i'd like to get a room for like 2-3 nights during the week for a few months.

i tip really well but overtipping crappy waiters or crappy dealers just insures crappy waiters and dealers stick around

As far as I can see, I have had weekday room comps since after the first day I played 10-20 FLHE (I checked My Borgata comps online). I don't know why I was given such room comps, in addition, I didn't/don't use them since I live in AC.

Your experience may be similar, with the quick comps, and hopefully someone with a better grasp of that than I will answer your question.

The noodle bars usually ok just expensive and the portions areNt that great but afair metro was ok and didnt have service issues.

From my experiences, all top notch. I always have a meal there when I come and I've never been disappointed. My wife never, ever did the raw fish thing, but once she braved the spicy tuna roll there, has been hooked ever since.

Getting free rooms from sunday to thursday is pretty easy unless its a holiday or something. I have been getting free rooms sun-thur for a couple years and i normally only come up like once a month and log prolly like 45 hours or so in a 3 day period playing 1-2.

How many times a week do you get it free a week though? I use to get free rooms at Taj but was limited to 2 days a week. Caesars was 1 a week. Of course i had to pay that tax fee which was $5 at Taj or $12 at Caesars. Is there any tax fee you have to pay for at borgata?

Most regulars get offers of 2 days per week. You have to pay $5 fee per night, but unlike at the Taj, you can pay for it with comp dollars, which is nice.

Talking about NOW? You have some ridiculous standards if you consider the portions over there to be "fair" given how much you pay for compared to other restaurants in Borg. Easily the best value in that whole hotel.

Are u Asian? Well I am just felt like it was overpriced. The ox tail soup was ok afai can remember. Don't really eat meat anymore so dunno I can eat shimp,veggies and fish. MaybE because of the markup? Usually items or food is twice as high then you pay with your points but I need to play more?

Borgata is one of the few places in AC that you can use your comp pts towards the room Tax. Tropicana being the other room, which has to be done manually at checkout. Borgata room tax is $5 a night, and also must be mentioned during check-in or via express checkout to deduct from your comp dollars. If you checkout using the TV, you will automatically get all charges on the room, posted to your credit card. It is a hassle to get it reversed. Please learn from my experience!

Yes I am Asian, not of the oriental variety.


I mean I guess you can call it overpriced considering everything is pretty much overpriced in a hotel, but really the prices there are pretty decent. I think comps at NOW are 1 for 1 so you don't have to worry about 2x as much using comps.

The game started as an O/8-Razz mix and got up to 9-handed.

Then 7 players got up when no one wanted to play Razz anymore.

After that the converted 15/30 Razz ranged from heads up to 7 players and went 5 more hours.

Lasted about 9 hours total.

Good chance it might go again next wknd. Probably not after that though.

Btw, game started again at 2 AM Tuesday and still going on right now.

On a related note, the regular O/8 game ran for 80 hours straight without breaking this weekend. Managed to play for about 60 of those hours.

Went down to Borgata last night with my cousin and friends and watched the fireworks. I recorded and watched the awesome event. Then I went to play some 1/2 NLH and was down a full buy-in. Really friendly atmosphere and the dealers were friendly too. I lost the first session around and left around 12:00am. I was really salty and went back and hour later and recouped my losses.

The most notable thing was this drunk Asian guy sitting next to me and he kept making actions out of turn and not even looking at his cards. He tries to buy in for 400 but he was over the max and took the 100 back. First hand, he gets dealt to and calls in the dark. Then he notices that he receives one card after everyone was dealt. In that situation the Asian guy wanted to let the one card play and the dealer okays it. The next dealer came in and the same situation happened. Action has already occurred and the Asian guy calls in the dark again and wants to let the one card play. Dealer calls the floor and declares a misdeal. Asian guy seems upset and it was pretty entertaining. I never see such a person who loves to piss away his money. More monies for me. :-) Then I hung out with my cousin's hot Asian friend at the B bar for a bit. Left around 3:15. Good times!

The fireworks at the Borgata were awesome last night!

The thunder and lightning the night before was spectacular!

Thanks again. I'll stop in to eat then. As I said, their menu (other than sushi) is impressive (a lot of interesting foods, and I like to sample) and good sushi is a great bonus.

So one dealer let him play with one card and then the next dealer did let him play with one card? And then the floor person said it's NOT ok to play with one card? Sounds like a lot of confusion.

Does anyone know the correct rule. I've seen different versions myself of this rule myself by dealers and Floor people.

Can you play with one card at Borgata? Anyone know?

You get 1-1 dollars (using comps) at all the "fine dining" restaurants and, as far as I can see, most of the casual dining places as well (if you ask, they'll tell you what they take).

The "fast" food place (oriental style) downstairs of the poker room and to the left of Panda House (also oriental style) takes 2-1 so I don't eat much there (although when I did the food was good enough--the salmon sushi they had was bland, though--no flavor at all--probably frozen). Most of the other "snack" places down there take 1-1. Late at night I'll still try to get something at The Metropolitan (1-1) just across from the Gypsy bar. While I don't wish to knock Fat Burger (many people like it), if I eat there I'll wind up with a heart attack for sure. That being said, I did hear that The Metropolitan serves a mean Philly Cheesesteak.

There's no way he was allowed to play with one card. It's a dead hand or a misdeal (a dead hand after substantial action).

Last time I checked, all the Cafeteria (downstairs from poker room) places are 2x comp. They didn't change this, did they?

btw, it's Chinese food at Panda Express and Japanese food at Hibachi-san. But it's whitey food at Fatburger and guido grub at Villa.

OK, people can still use "oriental" for things besides rugs, but it sounds so dated to me.

Obviously a lot of confusion...who knows. >_>

You're probably right about the 2x comp at the Cafeteria. I always pay cash there so I am most likely mistaken.

Right, I was referring to Panda Express and Hibachi-san, respectively Chinese and Japanese. Hibachi-san does have sealed sushi plates and I like their seaweed. I don't know about the rest of their sushi, it may be just fine, but the salmon (sushi) I had was flavorless (the last piece had just a hint of flavor) but that was the only sushi I had there (actually, I did have the salmon sushi before but I mixed it with the seaweed so I can't comment on the flavor--I ate it fast enough, though). Their Hibachi style or "fried" food was good enough and I would order there again.

I did have a cheesesteak at Tony Luke's. I won't say it was bad because it wasn't, but I wasn't impressed by it either.

While I agree that these things are confusing, I assure you that I know that there is no way you can play a hand with only one card at any legit (casino) poker room in the USA, including most respectable home games. This goes for any form of poker. 7 Stud, Omaha, you must have the proper amount of cards to compete for the pot. In Hold-em the hand is dead if you have 3 cards, the hand is dead if you have one.

It's up to the player to protect his hand.

I will say that, yes, it does get confusing at time.