i went at 11:30 pm two fridays ago, had to wait bout an hour for a seat, room was full til around 4 then it started to empty by 8am it was 4 tables of 1/2. the dealer told me they started serving again at 9am so i decided to play til 930 and purchase my $4.25 beer. sweet price.

my games were still pretty soft at like 3am. and when i got moved at 6am i got a pretty decent table, mostly older folks/fish and asian kids.

has any1 been there after midnight during the weekday? how are the games during the weekday at night?

Thanks a bunch for the input, I'm a recent grad moving from west chester, pa. I have a cheap townhouse share (stockton student living) in brigantine, and the house i own in baltimore which is a money pit. I like the nightlife and walking distance is a must. I don't play the DUI game. Trolley square seems like a good fit. Thanks for the input from everyone.

You know, I was making alot of jokes about the laughable comp rate at DP, but if it means $4 rake instead of $5 then thats alright. I'm glad they opted to have a lower rake/ lower comp rate; than higher rake/ higher comp rate.

I played there pretty much all day yesterday. Wanted to play PLO but (unsurprisingly) the list never grew to more than 5 names. Played 1/2nl instead since I didn't feel like buying in for 1k at 2/5 and there seemed to be huge stacks at every existing table which would have made buying in for less than the max a really terrible idea. Ran ok in the beginning but took some disgusting beats at the end, finished the day -200. In spite of running like garbage, I really liked the room. Will likely return for additional punishment today, over the weekend, or both.

is there any tournaments higher than $65 that isn't capped? like ever, something like online sites have with the big sundays every week?

I think Sundays will be $200

Poker Room Managers -

I love the room, and I am a regular $1-$2 player there.

Please train dealers to:

1. Pitch cards without exposing cards. Not sure if it's the brand of cards or the dealers. It happens a lot.

2. Read the hands before pushing pots. Twice on Saturday, two different dealers. First, 10 seat tables a king, 6 seat tables a straight, pot gets pushed to 10 seat without even looking at either hand. Three hours later, different dealer, 10 seat tables boat, tens over dueces, and two seat tables an ace, pot gets pushed to ace immediately without looking at hands. Both were corrected but dealers not paying attention. Both times, winning hand instantly mucked by dealer and then dug out.

3. Verify large bets by counting out chips. On the end, nine seat bets $20, two seat raises $40 on top. Nine seat calls and clearly puts out about $25 extra - dealer just scoops and pushes it. I called out "Is that the right amount", not in hand and two seat a beginner, and I think pot winner (two seat) clearly knew it was way heavy and gladly took it. I let it go, not stirring up trouble but concerned for the integrity of the game nonetheless.

Thanks -

IMO this is the worst part of the room, I have several times seen dealers not bother t count out bets that are like 12 chips when someone could obviously be heavy or light.

My 10th time at DPARK.This place is like a time machine.I havnt seen players this weak tight in 5 years.The joint is fish tank.The 1/2 and 2/5 are as soft as a babies can.

played from about 1:30-5 a.m. today. got moved a couple of times due to game breaking up. lost one buyin ($200) then rebought and wound up losing a net of $2 at the end of the night.

play was pretty much as bad/aggressive as it was the first night i was there.

just wait and pick off bluffs with top pair and you can make money.

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Dear DP managers,

I love your room and am very impressed with all the good things u do, I.e. The tel number to call in advance, the website with the games u are running. Dealers are great , tables are ok etc.

One thing I hate is the must move games. It is really bad. It does not create more players, but it takes a lot of freedom away. I.e. Can't move to any table I want any more. It also makes me have to play against the pros if I play longer and it makes it hard to get reads on players. I really see absolutely 0 advantages for players.

If you could at least change the rules, i.e. Put new players at the main game vs. Moving them from table to table. Please look into this. It is a really really big deal.

stupid question... but, how do you actually view your comps?

i tried looking on the website and typing my card number in, and nothing happens. is there a place in the casino where you can check out your points and stuff?

If you put your card into a slot machine, it will say "Welcome - you have xx points" where each point is worth 20 cents. (Or is it 30 cents?) You don't have to play slots - just stick your card into the card reader.

thank you sir.

.20 per hour is such a joke

Are they running must moves at 2/5? I know they're not at 1/2 and I don't think I've ever seen more than one table of 5/10 running.

If (as right now) they have 4 tables of 2/5 running I don't think a must move is a good idea. Must moves are common in higher stakes games that generally have fewer tables running. I think the idea is that they don't want two tables of 6 to both break because the players don't want to play short. But if there's 4 tables going that's not as much of a concern. If there are 4 tables of 6 they can break one and give everyone a seat. The must move system keeps the main game full and at least theoretically going longer.

.20 a hour does suck, but $4 rake is worth paying for your food.

Anyone else think they were playing with Eskimo Clark at 1/2 NL Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Guy was a dead ringer for him.

I like the must moves. There are plenty of us that want to be in the big game. Plus if I get there early there is no reason my table should break before the later games.

Delaware Park stopped doing the must-move for all of 12 hours during the first week.

And during those 12 hours, the 2/5 games completely fell apart because people wouldn't play short, etc.

And thus, the must-move was brought back.

Maybe in the future they will try removing must-move again, but for now all 2/5 games (the room's consistent 24/7 highest game) need to be protected.

I agree with this completely. I played for the first time a few days ago, and during an 8 hour session or so, I saw numerous examples of the three things listed above. I think part of the reason is that dealers are anxious and lack confidence, so instead of counting out the chips and taking a while and risk making a mistake, they just move along.

I realize that a lot of the dealers are new to dealing, and I don't get perturbed about misdeals, being slow, etc. However, when they are cutting corners (not counting out bets/calls, not reading hands at showdown, etc), it is inexcusable.

Blame the greedy State of Delaware of that one. A 30% casino tax compared to an 8% casino tax for Atlantic City leaves less pie available for other things, such as comps. Some people are complaining that 15% of the BBJ drop goes toward freeroll purses (10%) and administration (5%), but if it helps pay for those things out of the BBJ and not the rake and keeps the rake low, I am all for it.

I think it is funny that some people are going to stop playing at Delaware Park (10% maximum $4 rake) and start going to Harrah's Chester (proposed 10% maximum $5 rake) becuase they were only getting $.25/hour in comps at Delaware Park and they might get $1/hour at Harrah's Chester. Sure, go pay more in rake just to get more comps.

Some people play to win money, some people play for fun, some people play for comps. If people want to go play for better comps, that's their problem.