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01-18-2024 , 10:40 PM
If you think the 1/3 is full of nit rocks you’ll love the pros tanking and staring you down before folding pre at 2/5
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01-19-2024 , 12:44 PM
most tilting thing on earth is people who think they need to tank fold pre in order to balance their range so when they begin to tank that doesn't mean they necessarily have a hand worth playing

absolute morons
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01-26-2024 , 02:45 PM
Going for the first time to Encore. Do they offer players accounts to deposit some cash to play? And do they have a currency exchange service?

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01-27-2024 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by rickroll
most tilting thing on earth is people who think they need to tank fold pre in order to balance their range so when they begin to tank that doesn't mean they necessarily have a hand worth playing

absolute morons
Just reading this makes me want to punch a hole through a wall.
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02-11-2024 , 10:03 PM
Guy got arrested at Encore

https://www.reddit.com/r/poker/comme...ted_at_encore/

...was playing last night and the $10/$10 PLO table was right behind me. There’s a loudmouth Boston looking guy yelling stuff like “Don’t you EVER do that to me again. You don’t do that to me.” at this other dude.

Less than an hour later, there’s a commotion and half the table is standing up. There was a massive all in pre 3 ways for ~$20,500 each so it ended up being a ~$62,000 pot.

Guy getting yelled at binks the nut straight on the river with QJ98. Loudmouth and another guy lose. In the commotion, the ******* pushes a few stacks of green and black forward and tries to stealthily pocket 8-10 orange $1k chips and some blacks. He then runs off towards the bathroom!

The table and floor is in shock as they radio security. Within 15 minutes there’s 5 State police walking the guy back to the corner of the poker room. I think he tried to hide the chips in the bathroom lol, one guy said he saw him in there fumbling chips on the ground. He was eventually cuffed and presumably arrested.
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02-12-2024 , 02:27 AM
^^ The theft happened over a week ago, but here's (allegedly) the outcome, for those who don't want to sift through all the "completely standard PLO hand" jokes on Reddit.
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03-03-2024 , 10:02 PM
Didn't realize until I played today that they literally split the poker room into two areas, separated by penny slot machines.
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03-03-2024 , 10:05 PM
I can't believe they didn't put a little lounge area for people to wait in in between the two poker rooms. Now people are just sitting at the slot machines not playing it's so stupid

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03-04-2024 , 05:14 PM
Just moved back to the area. Haven't played at Encore since pre-Covid. Is the rake still completely ridiculous? How are the 2/5 and 5/10 games?
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03-04-2024 , 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Blink4
Just moved back to the area. Haven't played at Encore since pre-Covid. Is the rake still completely ridiculous? How are the 2/5 and 5/10 games?
I'd look for other options then this hell hole
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03-24-2024 , 10:56 AM
The last and only time I played at Encore a guy tried to steal chips when he we were all in. I had a straight and he told the dealer he won and started raking the chips.
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03-26-2024 , 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Blink4
Just moved back to the area. Haven't played at Encore since pre-Covid. Is the rake still completely ridiculous? How are the 2/5 and 5/10 games?

Yes it is... in fact it's some of the worst rake in the country
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04-01-2024 , 09:00 AM
2/2 PLO player arrested on Easter Sunday in the poker room.

A little bit of background. This new player was annoying, but he was “good for the game”, and he is on his 4th small buy-in which included one trip to the ATM. Cards are in the air, and he hands four green chips, off his stack, to his friend. I don’t think he had looked at his cards yet, but you could say that he went South for $100, during the hand.

Two players saw it, didn’t like, called the floor to complain. The hand is being played out, and the floor makes a ruling that the player has to immediately add $100 to his stack. At that moment, I don’t think he had chips or cash in his pocket. The floor asks the dealer to stop dealing the hand (we are at the flop now). The player ends up all in for about $365, and there are two other players All-in. The dealer didn’t hear the floor ask her to stop dealing, and she deals the turn & river. The player in question loses. The floor tells him he owes an additional $100 to the guy that won the hand.

One reg at the table thought the floor got this wrong. He felt that a warning about going South would have been fine. Another reg at the table also thought the floor got this wrong.

The floor pulled this guy off the table, and he got nasty with them. The floor asked him to leave, and he wouldn’t leave. Then security asked him to leave, and he wouldn’t leave. They warned him that they would call the police, which they did. The police showed up, compelled him to provide ID, he refused, trip to jail, Happy Easter.
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04-01-2024 , 09:06 AM
People pick stupid hills to die on sometimes.
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05-05-2024 , 11:47 AM
This room is dying a slow death. Tourney entrants are way down as well as the amount of cash game tables they run on a daily basis.
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05-05-2024 , 01:57 PM
There are many many things to dislike about this poker room as everyone has posted so far. The rake is $10+ with bad beat jackpot and high hand stuff at NL, you can't run it twice (or more) at rake games, many dealers are still not very good despite years of dealing (while some new ones are not that great either which questions the hiring process), there is no fresh cooked food to purchase most nights after 10pm, parking can be a nightmare on weekends, they don't open games when they should, floor is not on top of transfer lists, players are often trying to sit themselves, the cage is not open often (and you can't cash out), very rarely a chip runner, the TVs are super small (they had a few huge ones from the old setup that are sitting in a closet now vs on the actual open wall space), and so much much more.

The bathrooms are clean and they do have good security and state and Everett police around for many issues so there is some safety, and the place is very clean and luxurious in some ways.

They are just super lucky there are millions of people who live close by in the greater metropolitan Boston area and the surrounding New England area who wish to play poker and many of these people don't even know what rake or (tourney) fees are. I notice at 1-3 NL that there are many locals/townies, students (including many wealthy foreign students), lots of poker enthusiasts (people who are trying to take the game seriously and think they are very good at poker), home game players who want to squeeze in some poker on the days their home game is not run, small business owners who have disposable cash, blue collar guys who are getting off a plumbing/roofing/painting job and want to relax and have a few drinks and play some cards, and lots and lots of degenerate gamblers. You'd be surprised at how many people I hear talk about how much they lose at blackjack, craps, roulette, slots, sports betting, and baccarat (more common than I thought) who can play low stakes poker after losing huge amounts in the pits.

I think the room will continue to feed off the recreational players and those who Uber to Encore from the city and lots of gambler types who are not looking to minimize their expenses to the house. It is like any other business I guess where you want customers who are the least price sensitive to your services. If the room could they probably would cater to all the needs of the regulars and I don't know if this will ever happen but it is what it is. Hard to argue for more compared to 4 years ago when there was no poker in Boston.

That being said you really don't run into many professionals of any sort so I guess the games are still profitable if you are a good player. If you want to make some $ at poker there are still games at Encore that are beatable. I like that there is poker in NH, RI, and CT so they can't exactly have a monopoly and mistreat the players but they certainly don't seem to make it any kind of priority to improve. I would just say they are content to be the way they are and they have a lot of red tape and upper management disfunction and dealings with the gaming commission and others if anything were to improve.
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05-10-2024 , 03:26 PM
Nothing is going to change till they build the new space across the street. Maybe they'll come to their senses and put tables back in the old space with the big tv's but i'm not holding my breath.
And apparently Everett and Wynn and fighting over the money on the new site so they've "halted" their plans. Not sure who to blame on that one. Given Steven Wynn is a huge POS I'm not willing to blame Everett, but i'm sure they're at least partly to blame.
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05-11-2024 , 01:27 PM
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Nothing is going to change till they build the new space across the street. Maybe they'll come to their senses and put tables back in the old space with the big tv's but i'm not holding my breath.
And apparently Everett and Wynn and fighting over the money on the new site so they've "halted" their plans. Not sure who to blame on that one. Given Steven Wynn is a huge POS I'm not willing to blame Everett, but i'm sure they're at least partly to blame.
Greed all around, I'm sure.

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Craig Billings said that the decision was "disappointing" but added that Wynn has "numerous other development projects globally where we can redirect the capital we intended to deploy in Boston."
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Everett Mayor Carlo DeMaria said he supports the project, but wants to reach the best deal for the residents of his hometown.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/09...pansion-boston
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05-21-2024 , 06:27 PM
What day of the week do you guys typically go? I went last Friday and the poker room was practically dead.
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06-13-2024 , 10:39 PM
I'm going to EBH for the first time since before COVID. What's changed? The poker room is split in two now or something, right? And I heard they closed the cage in the poker room. Do you have to buy chips downstairs now or are there runners? Is the check in both in the same place? Can you still order food at the table?
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06-14-2024 , 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Zach And Tired
I'm going to EBH for the first time since before COVID. What's changed? The poker room is split in two now or something, right? And I heard they closed the cage in the poker room. Do you have to buy chips downstairs now or are there runners? Is the check in both in the same place? Can you still order food at the table?
1) The main thing is there are less tables and the rake is higher, $1 per $10 in the pot, up to $10 plus $2 for the promos. *I think* they only collect for the BBJ when the high hand promo isn't running, and that they take that first dollar at $10 in the pot. The buffet is gone, replaced by a pizza/sandwich/cheesecake place, the sportsbook, and Shake Shack.

2) Room is indeed split in twain, although it isn't too confusing. The brush and cage are more or less where they were. The larger room is now where the slot promo giveaways (for waffle irons and such) used to be; those promos are now downstairs roughly where Red8 is. Kind of annoying since at least a few of those slot-whales would get a spontaneous desire to play poker and games were always good on promo days. The smaller room which is usually opened last with ~10 tables is what used to be a kitchen... no more poker kitchen, and is right outside the men's room, behind the cage. Sound is poor in that room due to loud slot machines surrounding it, especially the Fire Link ones, and for a while there Encore was going to cram another row of slots on one wall too. I imagine that the fire department told them that wasn't safe. The slot noise probably violates several OSHA standards nevertheless, last I checked.

3) The poker room cage is still open most of the time, and you can buy chips there, though they do sometimes go on meals break. No chip runners for players, brushes and sometimes floors do rack fills still. You can color up there, and, based on some sort of secret arcane system, presumable involving astrological theories about the apsidal precession of Mercury, you can occasionally randomly cash out there. There's no way to know when that is in practice without asking, like a sign or anything. I've sometimes walked to the high stakes cage to cash out when the main cage downstairs starts looking like a Registrar of Motor Vehicles office. Such are the times.

4) The stand alone booth is gone, and the brush desk is now where the Red Card desk used to be.

5) No more poker kitchen. No more massage girls. Encore probably not serious about building an extension anymore, the blueprints of which was rumored to hold a new poker room made of solid jade, and a small farm where all your childhood pets are still alive and frolicking happily because why not. But the room is no where near as busy as it used to be, probably because Encore's little hand is taking, I might guess, $200+ dollars off each open table every hour. Games themselves are usually good though, imo.


Maybe if a few more people chime in with details I've missed or gotten wrong we can try to update the FAQ.....
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06-14-2024 , 05:23 PM
I think you nailed. Pre=Covid, management conceived the room as a destination location, where people would travel to visit. Therefore, they were trying to present it as upscale. Today, the room is trying to stay with Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, which have also degraded the room amenities. Currently, there are 16 tables running at Encore. Foxwoods has 15 and Mohegan has 10. Between Salem and Nashua which are on the border, there are more tables running than Encore.
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06-19-2024 , 05:20 PM
My date just made a reservation at Seamark, a newer restaurant at Encore. (Apparently, sinatra closed a while back)

It gets mixed reviews online. Anyone have an informed opinion?

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06-20-2024 , 04:11 PM
Is that Long Wharf Water Shuttle schedule accurate on the EBH website? It says Oct-Apr, but wanted to take it this weekend. I'd be surprised if they aren't running this during the summer.
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06-23-2024 , 04:17 PM
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Is that Long Wharf Water Shuttle schedule accurate on the EBH website? It says Oct-Apr, but wanted to take it this weekend. I'd be surprised if they aren't running this during the summer.

Wouldn’t put it past me that somehow some clueless employee who typed it up meant it as Apr thru Oct instead. That’s the talent they’ve got there Encore Boston Harbor Casino (Everett, MA) - FAQ in OP


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