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Just finished my first ever cash game session. I learned that a lot of people had no idea that the rake is $10. Literally 3 different guys at my table asked the dealer what it was.

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07-24-2022 , 09:00 PM

#3703

iwasbanned

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Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 4,366

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Originally Posted by shhh

starting July 24th open five days a week until 2am

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Originally Posted by OvertlySexual

Boston: The City that Definitely Sleeps.

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Originally Posted by RhodyGuy

Significant drop off around midnight..

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Originally Posted by Viper007

Yes it is Sunday-Thursday, Starting July 24th...10am-2am.

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Originally Posted by Viper007

How’s the action during the evening hours?

It's 9 pm, and the majority of poker tables are playing short handed already.
No waiting list.

People from Massachusetts are not night Owls.

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07-24-2022 , 09:04 PM

#3704

orcusvox

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Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 116

According to poker atlas there are 10 tables of 1/3 with 23 on the list. I'm not staying up until midnight to see the numbers. I just can't imagine very many people playing after midnight.

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07-28-2022 , 01:46 AM

#3705

27offsuit

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FTR the list is a little misleading. The list of 32 for 1/3 last night had two actual live humans present and 30 more signed up on poker atlas, but not there yet. So the real list was 2 in front of me.

Met a friend and only donked afterward for like an hour, but had an incredible hand distribution of 99, TT, JJ, QQ & KK in that hour. Then every hand lost except for TT, which was behind a flopped Q when all the money went in, only to runner runner flush :/

But hey, THAT'S POKER.

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07-28-2022 , 02:14 AM

#3706

borg23

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Originally Posted by orcusvox

Just finished my first ever cash game session. I learned that a lot of people had no idea that the rake is $10. Literally 3 different guys at my table asked the dealer what it was.

Did it stop them from playing?

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07-29-2022 , 04:41 AM

#3707

FishFry1984

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Originally Posted by borg23

Did it stop them from playing?

Probably not lol

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07-29-2022 , 02:02 PM

#3708

Burdzthewurd

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Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 12,254

Are you allowed to "tip the rake" - i.e. drag a pot and add a portion of the pot to the rake?

Just imagining goofing around when stacking someone and sliding the entire pot into the rake instead of taking it for yourself purely for the sake of tilting someone more

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07-29-2022 , 02:02 PM

#3709

Burdzthewurd

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07-29-2022 , 02:54 PM

#3710

orcusvox

centurion

Join Date: Nov 2015 Posts: 116

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Originally Posted by borg23

Did it stop them from playing?

One guy make a face like he was going to puke. He asked right after dragging a $600 pot. He tiped the dealer 35 bucks.

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07-30-2022 , 12:25 AM

#3711

borg23

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Originally Posted by orcusvox

One guy make a face like he was going to puke. He asked right after dragging a $600 pot. He tiped the dealer 35 bucks.

lol seems like a good place to deal

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08-12-2022 , 12:14 PM

#3712

MuchoGood

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https://www.masslive.com/news/2022/0...gm-encore.html

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08-12-2022 , 02:31 PM

#3713

jh12547

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Encore is having trouble keeping its table games staffed. They will continue to bring up that problem up before they add more poker tables. It’s a never ending circle. The rent prices around Boston continue to climb. The traffic sucks and the gas prices make it hard for those that choose to commute . Encore’s pay scale and benefits aren’t good so people quit when a better option comes up.

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08-12-2022 , 05:29 PM

#3714

Mr ATM

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Originally Posted by jh12547

Doesn't matter if they have 1000 tables... with $10 rake it makes zero sense to play there... I don't care how good the action is, over a large sample size it's simply unbeatable especially after all the dumb fish that have converged on the place since it reopened and are donating stacks go broke which is inevitable. It will be even worse when the pre-covid jackpot money that's currently funding the high hands runs out and they start charging $10+$3

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08-12-2022 , 07:08 PM

#3715

bert_stare

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Originally Posted by Mr ATM

100%

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08-13-2022 , 10:20 AM

#3716

FishFry1984

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Originally Posted by jh12547

Encore pay scales don’t justify the area.
I know people there in all different positions and they’re all literally just waiting to jump at the next place that opens

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08-15-2022 , 10:27 PM

#3717

RhodyGuy

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 1,392

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Originally Posted by Mr ATM

“I don’t care how good the action is” and “dumb fish”…….wouldn’t this seem to matter? Home games with high rake is the most profitable game there is as it’s filled with these same type of players. Why would you purposely avoid these games when at Encore? I don’t understand the fascination with low rake nitfest games.

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08-15-2022 , 11:10 PM

#3718

iwasbanned

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Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 4,366

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Originally Posted by Mr ATM

Doesn't matter if they have 1000 tables...
with $10 rake it makes zero sense to play there...

FTR: At $10 rake, I doubt the Encore needs more than 20 tables.

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08-16-2022 , 12:15 PM

#3719

MuchoGood

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Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 254

Games are good and I don’t think the rake matters AS MUCH given $8 rakes in NH including jackpots which are raked differently.

I think games at all levels are pretty beatable and this isn’t a market where the “fish” dry up. There always a new pool shoving them stacks and with the $500 buyin at the $1/3 you will get lots of deep stack play.

I think we can open the discussion if they start taking a jackpot of top which I’m told isn’t anytime soon. Jackpots are raked differently and there are times where you are paying for one you can’t win.

Also have heard October is the target date for going 7 days a week 10am-4am. Heard nothing about more tables.

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08-17-2022 , 08:29 AM

#3720

Viper007

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Join Date: Feb 2021 Posts: 70

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Originally Posted by MuchoGood

Dealer told me it was about 4-5 more months of "no jackpot rake" left in the money. Not sure of reliability of that quote but wouldn't be surprised if it was accurate.

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08-17-2022 , 07:23 PM

#3721

bert_stare

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So there is 70 names on the list for 1-3 at 7pm on a Wednesday but they claim there isn't enough demand to hire more dealers? They could up the rake to 50% and people would still flock to this dump

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08-18-2022 , 11:11 AM

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ATrainBoston

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I also heard that October is when they expand days and hours. Also if and when they ever can expand and improve their parking situation, they would then go back to the old poker room footprint with the 60-70 tables. That could be a long ways away and wouldn’t hold breath for that.

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08-18-2022 , 11:24 AM

#3723

MJ88

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Originally Posted by Mr ATM

I don't know whether a $10 rake makes the games unbeatable or not; I suppose that it might be if the skill differentials are enormous enough. But I do know that $10 rake is gougingly high to the point of being insulting, and I will refuse to play there as long as any reasonable alternatives exist (NH, FW).
What a shame!

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08-18-2022 , 11:49 AM

#3724

shhh

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Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 190

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Originally Posted by bert_stare

So there is 70 names on the list for 1-3 at 7pm on a Wednesday but they claim there isn't enough demand to hire more dealers? They could up the rake to 50% and people would still flock to this dump

easily 60% of the names on the list are online checkins that never show up.