They only have a max of 24 tables, I believe. Also an issue with dealer availability I would imagine.

So maybe they can do 300-350 or so entries total, after alternates and rebuys? I'll ask the floor Friday.

I would think it would draw from a wider pool, due to $600 entry making it "worth the drive" for many. Area has seen zero big tournaments since covid as far as I recall...aside from multiple great series at Turning Stone way out near Syracuse, and a few at Borgota down in AC.

I'm mystified as to why Foxwoods never really picked up the ball. They had some amazing events in days of old!

Hopefully EBH can build up to bigger and better things.

Encore had a great event right before covid, was a $600 buy in with around 1300 entrants. But as I recall, even before covid was a concern, they were going to basically start getting rid of tournaments (despite the obvious popularity) because the tournament players took up too much weekend parking or something.

I find it curious that with a reduced capacity poker room and them seemingly giving very little effort to revitalize the poker room post-covid, they now seem to be making a real effort at getting tournaments going.

Yesterday, they were running their $240 Tuesday tournament. It was a re-entry, with no rebuys nor add-ons. At the first break, they announced that if people wanted to forfeit their chips, they could buy an entry at full price. Given that several dealers told me they were already working OT, and they didn't run the high hand promotion during the tournament because they didn't have the people to manage it, I'm pretty sure it is due to a lack people to deal and floor.

They only have 24 tables so 216 before alternates have to be called as people bust but when the tournament starts there is usually a few 1-3 tables going so < 24 tables.

That's so lame, wasn't sure if they'd add tables for this event. Or do they plan to in the month leading up to it? Poker Atlas couches it as "look for our bigger events starting Oct 1st" so seems the plan is to do more of these? Why short change them? Surely these tournaments are less drop than just raking 24 cash tables in the same timeframe.

Not when they can get the room almost full on a weekday morning/early afternoon when there would only be 4 tables running anyway (which will still run anyway even with the tournament going too)

Got back from my first experience at Encore, and it really is a shame that their mgmt hates poker since ambiance wise that is one of the nicest poker room I have played in, encore in Vegas prob gets the edge with a more extensive free drink selectionÂ…

As far as the rest of what makes a poker room, it seemed lackingÂ…they close the poker cage late at night and sometimes can only color you up??? Forcing you to join a large line downstairs holding your chips out in conspicuous racksÂ…no chip runners or selling out of the rack? Even borgata put larger racks in so dealers could sellÂ…dealer quality was okay prob a little worse than my normal rooms. Rake has been discussedÂ…but to remind 13/half for 5/5 PLO and 5/10 NLH and 15/ half for 10-10 PLO

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Anyone know anything?

My buddy who is a dealer there (pit games) sent me this text exchange he had with another dealer there back in early August. There were at least three asian kids dealing. They caught one palming a black chip and went back and started reviewing footage and found the others.

Curious how far they'll go back when they review footage and what was/will be done besides firing the dealers. No players will ever get any $ back and their only concern ever is to make sure the $10 goes in the drop every hand if you are missing any $ ever nothing usually will be corrected.

The one time I thought something was fishy was when a player clearly just sat down first hand with $300 and he is all in 3 ways and there is a huge side pot but he wins the main pot and he gets < $900 which makes zero sense since there was also a few guys who called $20/25 pre-flop. From then on I try to be extra vigilant but it is difficult to do this every single hand and assuming the dealers and casino is there to help protect our pots is dumb on my part.

FYI project details for the East of Broadway project

https://www.eastofbroadwayeverett.com/?utm_source=tyler

What are the chances of this bridge being the new Storrowing?

This expansion stuff makes me think of that one house across the street next to the expansion parking lot, which the owner rented out on airbnb as a shared house. No other houses around, just that one, all by itself. That place was weird as hell, it was not in great shape, the bedroom doors didn't even have locks, but for $70/night in Boston, across the street from Encore, yea whatever I'll take it. I'm assuming the owner is going to make bank selling that house if the expansion project goes through, ha.

Or make less than what they already offered him to sell?
Rumor had he was offered like 3 million to sell and rejected it, they’ll build around him and make as much noise as they can that no one will ever rent from him. Then he’ll settle for less!


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Entered the Monday 4:15pm $240 turbo tourney today at end of first level. No problem getting seated, despite 1/2 the tables doing cash. Action was very fast, at my table at start.

Lots and lots of early knockouts and rebuys going on.
Ended up with 188 entries! Pretty impressive crowd I thought, so figured I'd post.

Ended up knocked out by AK flush vs hero AA's.
Anyhow, unlike other days, there was very fluid re-seating going on, so not oppressively crowded at my table at least. Only downer was long list for PLO when I got knocked out, so just headed home.

There have been plenty of examples of people who genuinely don't want to sell,refuse to sell be it casinos ,some golf major etc.

And over time offers go way up not down.Nobody who tells a big company to eat a dick for 3 million turns around to take less.

Last two nights (Monday, tuesday) there were two 5/10s going at twin river and zero at encore at like 10pm. Also equal amount of 2/5 tables. Make of that what you will

Is Twin spreading PLO yet?


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Not yet.

Just a reminder of where poker players stand with the management of Encore. My wife plays there 4-5 times a year and a bad day is she lost $150 on the penny slots. A couple of weeks ago, she got an offer for a free week day room that we took. It was free, no tax, no amenities charge. About a week later, she got her next one.

My only question is how many hands of poker would you have to play to equal the $150 she handed to encore? It's not really an equal comparison

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You would have to play poker for about 5 or 6 hours or maybe about 200 hands of poker for them to make $150 off of you. That's estimating the rake at about $25 to $30 an hour at the lowest stakes of 1/3.

Obviously there is more overhead costs with poker than there is with slot machines so margins are bigger on slots.

I think it's not so much about rake etc - it's that I have no doubt that it's easier to convert a penny slot player into a bigger spending medium and high limit slot player than it is to get a 1-2 player to ever graduate into higher stakes

they probably have a fairly accurate general idea of your overall financial situation and believe with the right carrots can coax a little more out of you

also, non-zero chance she downplays her losses to you or even is unaware of how bad they are - wouldn't be the first couple to lose 1k in an afternoon and then say "honey it was bad, I lost like $100 bucks" and quite often they don't even realize they are lying

There's also the fact that casinos sometimes offer better deals to people who don't come... I use Bally's Twin River in Lincoln as an example: They offer me free hotel rooms and cruises every month and I haven't been there more than once in the past year! So offers aren't always linked directly to play.

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Any idea how long the Monday $240 turbo usually lasts? Thinking of playing tomorrow, but maybe not so much if I should be expecting it to last until 2-4am