They were trying to come up with a fair rate and this is being announced today.

But they were. So idk what to tell you.

The community just thinks dealing poker is easy and poker dealers are a dime a dozen where encore can literally pluck cream of the crop from the job pool. It doesn't work that way. I'm going to say, encore hired the best available talent they could have for the amount of dealers they needed. No small task.

If you don't want to play in the best games in New England while some dealers improve on the job, then there's other options out there.

Someone doesn't actually know who jpsychlady is??? Amazing.

She plays. Plays a lot.

I happily stand corrected!

Yo, yo, yo...I'm popping my Encore cherry this Friday. Anyone else playing this Friday night?

I'm not a NE cahd room reg, sorry
I wasn't just referring to the dealers there. Some of the management decisions surprise me given how vegas is run.

And I was making the point that the dealers are bad (which is understandable) and the time charge is comparatively very high, which people should know about. Putting bad slow dealers in timed games is just not a customer friendly idea, they should put the bad dealers in raked games. I don’t enjoy paying high time charges in slow games (which aren’t that good by the way). And yeah there are several other options, one of which I’ll probably choose is to play at Encore but not in time charge games until they are run more efficiently.

I ain’t in the “more rake is better” camp ! ��

Glad I had the honor of meeting THE jpsychlady this past weekend - she's a delight!

Not trying to knock anyone.
And maybe it's not my place

Someone mentioned how the games weren't that great.

People on this forum have been talking for 2 years about how they couldn't wait for Encore to open so they could come play here.
I'm guessing many have done so
And I'm assuming they're not fish!

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yea games were not great, seems like every NE nit bumhunting grinder is in the room at the moment.

I think it's pretty obvious the poker room traffic is WAY more than they expected. I played about 5 hrs of PLO and only had 1 bad dealer fwiw.

It will interesting to see how they evolve. I'm not sure the Wynn vegas model will work here. The ratio of high-rollers to the rest of us isn't like it is in vegas. I wonder if, after a few years, they decide rather than lower the price points on food/rooms etc.. they'll just sell out to MGM, take their profit and move on.

I'm sure if the volume continues like this, there'll still be enough good spots. I don't know.
I'm making my first poker visit this weekend and I'm a small stakes player.
Oh, forgot to mention.
I don't necessarily know her personally, but I know who jpsychlady is!

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she has a myspace profile!

Okay this isn’t fair

That was a compliment!
Who'd care who you are if you're not a good player!
I played with you maybe 3 times
at Foxwoods.
You probably don't know who I am. See above comments.

P.s. I don't have MySpace

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So what’s the deal With parking, anyone have info on validation or discounts? Also, Where’s the best place to park aside from the garage?

Um, both questions have been answered ITT in the past 16 hours. Please do a *little* research.

Omg

I was just making a funny. I don’t really care. You should introduce yourself though. Poker is better when it’s sociable

Agreed

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Excellent opinion, especially when it comes to the impact on other venues.

And especially spot on regarding this:

"*The rake is ridiculous. We are paying $9/per half hour at 5-10. TR is $7, MGM, is $7, Borgata if I remember is $6, Foxwoods was $7.

*The dealers on average are the worst I’ve ever seen anywhere. Yes, I know they are new, but I’m just stating a simple fact. Being charged a historically high time amount while a new dealer is wasting time at the table is an aggravating experience. They had quite a gall choosing this rake amount when they are just starting and they have these dealer issues; there are also several other issues yet to be worked out that others have mentioned, such as the wait for chips, service, the cage, comps, etc. "

From what I've read on this forum alone, the dealers are not trained or experienced enough to be charging such an exorbitant rake/time. It comes out to much more than $9 per half hour when the operation is so beset with delays that eat up the average hands per down.

Thanks again for the insight. Really makes a difference to me. Here I was chomping at the bit for Encore to open to fly in and play and now I realize that the costs, from hotel expense to transportation getting to and from and the impact delays have on hands played make it not a good choice for me.

Hope they get it together, especially when it comes to tournaments and running a smoother operation. How hard was it to fully train their dealers and cashiers? How difficult is it to employ enough beverage and food servers?

Everything I've read here agrees with this assessment. Hard to fathom how Encore can fail to put the necessary money and energy into running the casino once they poured billions into building it. So sad.

Apologies, but you posted there was none, then jspych said it was $1. Was trying to get a confirmation.

How exactly do you use the comp dollar to pay for the parking? I’m hoping this can be done directly from the parking kiosk.

That's fair. I assume she is correct. I don't actually "know" a lot about this place like I do the others, so I should stop answering questions if I'm not 100% since people are used to taking my replies at face value.

So there isn't a once per day rule on this? Possibly would be playong two different sessions/day if/when I do come up next month based on more feedback I get from this thread. Thanks kindly.