maybe 5-6 years ago, they actually used to make announcements that sit n gos were starting.

come to think of it, wasn't that around the time that they started taking the 3% out of the prize pool for tournaments.........

That is crazy. I use to play 10-20 limit a lot and got almost every weekend. I stopped going for a while, about 2 months, and I still go a few fridays. I have never played 5-10, but find it crazy that you cannot get weekends with that kind of grind.
Do any 1-2 players honesty get weekends, or do you have to play 2-5 and up to really consistently get weekends?


[QUOTE=djz;43478133]so back in march i get my black card after putting in a bunch of volume at 10/25. then in the past week i played 50hrs of 5/10 NLHE (wednesday-saturday). back when i was red card holder i would still get 2 nights a week and sometimes weekends. now i'm only getting one night a week and no weekends.

i was also getting all weekends too after i moved up to 5/10 but no longer bla.

hella strange. wish i were still 2/5 red card player.

[QUOTE=Pappa G;43481066]That is crazy. I use to play 10-20 limit a lot and got almost every weekend. I stopped going for a while, about 2 months, and I still go a few fridays. I have never played 5-10, but find it crazy that you cannot get weekends with that kind of grind.
Do any 1-2 players honesty get weekends, or do you have to play 2-5 and up to really consistently get weekends?


I play 2/5 and 5/10 and put in about 100 hours a month. I get any night I want. HOWEVER with that being said I book my nights 5 weeks at a time. The longer you wait the harder it is to get a weekend date. They only give out so many comp rooms per night, once they are booked they gone. So book as far in advance as possible. I always do.

Recently there have been a lot of SNG, last Saturday there were about 5 or 6 of them, Memorial Day weekend though.

I will play in one this Friday night $100 buy in if anyone is interested start a list I will be there and will play in it.

The opening event for the summer open is the 300k guarantee. Is there anyway to figure out what the payout will be for first place?

Here are the results from last year to have a perspective:

http://www.theborgata.com/casino/pok...n-2013/event01

Perfect! Thanks

Heading to Atlantic City for a couple days, and I noticed the low BBJ is almost at 50K to start the frenzy thing. But I doubt the site updates more than once a day, so I was hoping somebody who plays regularly could let me know if they think that's gonna start tomorrow assuming it doesn't get hit tonight. The site says it's just under 47K, but I don't have the slightest idea of the rate of growth.

It has to be little at 50k big at 200k to start , what is the big at ?

187,777 as of June 4th, I would say it reaches 50K Friday so we are looking at Saturday for it to start.

Must have been a slow week. I expected it to start tomorrow when I get there or at the latest Friday. Business is down big time obviously on Monday and Tuesday.

Think it was about 180k, didn't know big had to be at 200k.

Just got to harrahs maybe I'll head over tonight maybe tomorrow.

Yeah a lot don't think so but that is the way as well , soon enough it will be ,excited to get back there on Thursday for my 3 day weekly trip

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For those of you who are wondering about amount/limits of play and how that correlates to room comps, I think that average daily play is an incredibly important factor. So the casino likely would rate/comp you better for playing 9 hrs one day than playing 3 hrs/day over three days. Lattimer, cockpit, lovesantiques, and a couple other guys around B&M are very knowledgeable regarding how casinos comp. Maybe one of them will chime in.

Ya I mean I'm not a reg at borgata, though I have a feeling I'll be there a lot more from now on. Parx is a lot closer to me, but I've more recently wanted to play in Atlantic city cuz I can stick around for a cpl days and there's more to do.

So I've actually never played cash there just the 560 dollar event that got refunded lol. Looking forward to playing cash there for the first time, woulda been way
More excited if the frenzy was on lol.

Generally that's true, but Borgata seems to do it differently than industry standard. I've never seen poker players get comped as well as they seem to do here.

I can only speak for my experience but I am a black card member who plays 90 to 100 hours a month playing 2/5 to 5/10 nl , I get two free rooms per week any nights I want but if I want weekends must book in advance which I do , hence this week I have comped Thursday and Friday , now I can also ask the floor for a third night if I feel like staying and because I play a lot they will pick up the tab for the third night , now I have been told no when asking for a Saturday at times but any other night getting third night no problem , now when I was a red card member in the day I got two night a per week also , one key is using them. If they see you keep showing up each week you can continue to get two nights per week , you stop coming all the time and say start coming once per month I have seen those people fall to one night per week

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it's probably 10+ pages back but it seems 9hours/day gets you the basic 2/nights a week. The higher you play the less hours you need. There is some algorithm the casino uses to determine your value. The comped nights are coming from the casino themselves not from the poker room.

They also have some level system within their card tiers as well. Just being a black or red really doesn't matter it's your personal play during like 90 days or so.

Borgata has a ton of rooms sitting idle they are really good at trying to fill them and get people into the casino.They also know if they didn't give the rooms out it'd be a virtual ghost town even in season.

i started getting fridays and 2 nights a week again. but no weekends . gonna play like 50 hours next week though so i think i should get weekends back. will be confused if i don't. i may have lost my weekends for cancelling them a bunch of time this year a day or two before i was supposed to check in. what do you look like? i'm mid-20s white guy who wears a red-grey hoodie and black glasses. i was in seat 4 most of the time wednesday. i have a pretty good idea who you are though if you said you mostly play 2/5.

feel free to shoot me PM if you don't want to answer in thread.

Do bigger level poker games bring anything close to proportional bigger rake?

I can see 1/2 NL and 3/6 FL not getting to max rake, but once you get to 2/5 and 10/20 the rake is max most of the (or timed which we is a bit of a discount over %rake?) .

Is the real assumption is that the higher you player poker, the more you are likely to bet/spend elsewhere (pits, restaurants, etc?).

People have already given some info on this but I would just add:

- Room availability is only based on hours played, averaged on a per-day basis, and the limit at which you're playing doesn't make a difference. (I have never played 2-4 limit so this may be an exception)

- Be careful not to kill your daily average by playing 2 hours before you leave on Sunday, for example. If you played 8 hours Saturday and 2 on Sunday, your average will only be 5 hrs/day and your rooms will suffer. In this example, if you didn't play at all Sunday, you would get more rooms with an 8 hr/day average.

- The poker day ends at 6 AM so playing until 8 AM can kill your average in the same way. I'm such a degen I have to set an alarm to avoid doing this.

- Having a black card doesn't help you get more rooms. I have a black card and killed my average one time and saw my rooms drop. It works exactly the same as when I had the red. I only use the web calendar to book. I can't speak about whether or not they're more likely to throw you a bone if you're a black card holder when you call, but I would bet not.

to clarify, 2-5 and 10-20 charge timed rake, which is $5 every push. (30 mins)

I would say you are correct, and that also the assumption is that they will bring their friends from their social circle, who may in turn bring more people, etc.

I have been trying to figure this out for years.

I agree with everything here except about the stakes. The higher you play, the lower your daily average needs to be to get weekend rooms. And of course relatively recently things changed and now it's more difficult for everyone to get weekend rooms and more than 1 day a week.

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This would make sense as I recently upgraded, so if it got more strict at the same time, it would seem the same to me.