The world isn't perfect.

How is it that some people are so self entitled and spoiled and can’t fanthom the fact that things either get broken? Need adjustment? Proper training to the new guy that took the job? New to PokerAtlas and connecting main Red Card system to Atlas?
How is it that some humans just THINK everyone needs to be there at their convenience without a any speed bumps?

And this is why I’ve become to hate Poker!

Screws fall out all the time!

I played 36 hours on Thursday. Another 8 today. I go to the buffet and try and use the card. Zero balance. My life over and had no idea how to solve this. So I reached into my pocket and handed the cashier 42$. All of a sudden, my entire body started melting. As I was melting, Chuck Norris approached me and said the only way to survive is the points.

Then I woke up from my nap and got onto a 7$ bus that drove me 50 miles to the casino. I was the only one on the bus yet it was still running just for me. In that moment I was a vip coasting along this green earth headed toward a brand new massachusetts classy casino where the poker room it seems was built FOR poker players. Poker players are above the whole gambling floor as if we were the gambling kings overlooking the peasants. The bathrooms are certified diamond tier.

For real, a glitch in the computer will be fixed and they are probably flooding with feedback. It will go from great to legendary.


Rant over. Have great day and good luck at the tables.

I know! The faucets put me on tilt as they shut off after each second. I just not going to wash my hands and teach you idiots a lesson for taking my chips.

I like you. Hope we play at same table were I let you take the money I take from others as payment for your entertaining post.

Note: Talk about hand/exposing cards (even heads up) is not allowed. Someone complained at my table tonight and the floor came over and verified this is the rule. Came up again the next half hour and the dealer said it was ok if heads up. On my way out checked with another floor and he verified it isn't allowed. So not all dealers may be aware, but definitely the rule that you cannot discuss your cards or expose heads up.

You also can't talk during a hand, even heads up. Telekinesis and hypnosis are your main tools.

Surely this is inaccurate. Can anyone elaborate and verify?

It's wrong. Hypnosis is also extremely forbidden. Or I'm just really bad at it.


For real though, no exposing hands. I've seen lots of warnings for that so far. I haven't seen anyone get popped for talking heads up. (yet)

Warnings for that? But not for the two buddies sitting next to each other discussing something in the middle of a hand at the other end of the table that I'm in vs. one of them.

Please pay attention dealers. I don't like to be the bad guy.

Over the years I'm pretty sure we've all suffered from glitches and other issues with Foxwoods and Mohegan plenty of times.

By the way, if you're at the Encore, you can just insert your red card into any slot machine and touch the "comps" button. Your point balance will be displayed.

If you hold a hand near the sensor, they stay on. A little awkward but it makes them functional. I'm planning to try placing a paper towel over the sensor next time.

When did this start working? Mine was still saying 0 balance as of Sunday morning. When I have the floor check though, it's in the ballpark of where it should be.

Any game with a bad beat jackpot you can't talk even if it's heads up I was told by the dealer. I'm guessing it doesn't apply to 5/5Plo and up and 5/10nl and up.

What I was told

I was about to post about this. At 5/10 and 10/20 there has always been a lot of talk heads-up and never been an issue. Saturday heads-up after an all in, a potential calling player also flipped his hand over and nothing was said by players or dealer.

And not sure if it was mentioned but running it twice at any timed game is ok. But my friend who played 2/5 said he thought it was not allowed. Again, maybe a difference between the timed vs raked games for table talk, hand showing, and running it twice.

How are the two even related?

Trip Report: I played 10.5 hours on Saturday, my second time there since the grand opening

Overall I find this place amazing and the poker heaven we've been wanting. I usually play at Twin River and this place is better in every conceivable way: Comfier chairs, better (brighter) lighting, better food, better dealers, WAY better floor, better games, better things to do and see when you need a break, no players getting testy and yelling at each other causing a commotion, and most importantly no terribad 80's music playing on a loop at loud volume that causes players and dealers alike to sing along when their jam comes on.

Various tidbits:

Commute & parking - Coming from the Worcester area at 6pm on a Saturday, I hit zero traffic until I got off 93 and just had to make my way from there to the parking garage (lots of traffic lights). In the garage I couldn't find any signs that said "North Casino Entrance" but I found I think it was "West Casino Entrance" so parked near there and that elevator took me up to outside Fratelli's I believe, which was easy to head to the poker room from.

Signup - This was my first time using Poker Atlas, and holy hell is it game-changing. I signed up during my commute was I was ~30 minutes away, and was basically seated immediately when I arrived. Two thumbs up! Pro Tip: If you just signed up for a Poker Atlas account the same day, the nickname you chose for yourself won't be on the list (I guess they vet it for profanity?), so I was on the list for example under my initials with the last 4 of my phone number which is guess is what I got auto-assigned until my chosen nick is cleared.

Chips/Cage - As I walked off the escalator I heard an announcement that they were selling chips at a table right next to the cage, which I easily found and instantly had all the chips I needed. Great! Whenever I went to the bathroom during my session I looked at the cage and the lines never seemed CRAZY long; When I cashed out around ~7am there was basically no line. Once I got up to the window, cashing out was WAYYY quicker than opening day. On opening day, I only cashed out $400 (4 complete rows of reds) and the cage employee counted every stack, had to wait for validation from 2 people, she triple-counted the four hundred dollar bills, etc - it was brutal. THIS time, I cashed out for $3,327 using a mix of all denominations in 2 trays, and the entire process took like a fifth of the time as that opening day experience. She counted one stack which was good enough to confirm every other stack was legit, and while someone else did have to come over to verify, she begin collecting the cash while they were verifying so as soon as they did she staying paying it out. Basically, I have zero problems with my cage experience this time.

Food - I ordered the chicken caesar salad and it was good. Now granted, it's hard to mess up something so basic, but the chicken actually had a really good marinate or dry rub on it, and the lettuce and everything else was completely fine. Nothing special, but got the job done - the only problem was that it wasn't very filling; later I got the chicken fingers & fries platter which is OVERfilling. Amazing that these two meals are the same price considering the massive swing in calorie intake. You get 4 huge chicken fingers, 2 pieces of texas toast, and entire bin of fries, plus ketchup, bbq, ranch, and cole slaw. I couldn't even finish it. I think both meals are overpriced at $17, but for me it was worth it to just keep playing (and I wanted stuff I could eat with a fork entirely)

Dealers - In my 10.5 hour session, I probably had ~18 unique dealers? Out of those, 2 were very slow, while every other one was either completely adequate, or exceptionally good. The best dealer we had actually dealt our table for over an hour because no one came to replace him after 30 minutes. Overall it seems the dealers here are going to be fine and the extremely slow ones will get better if they haven't already.

Waitresses - There wasn't a ton of drinking happening at my table, but it did seem like every time anything was ordered it came at a reasonable time, and they seemed to be nearby to take orders at a reasonable time. It was a super busy Saturday night so it's not like they were a constant presence or anything, but I didn't hear anyone complaining about drinks at my table, which happens most every night at any Twin River table

Action - My table was great! Only a few other good players to have to worry about, and a pretty steady flow of tourists and other inexperienced players cyling through all night long. Occasionally late into the night we'd get down to 6 players with 3 empty seats for a while, but then another $2/$5 table would break and we'd fill up again. I have no idea what it's like here on a random work night as opposed to a busy Saturday night, but on this day you could just play a solid tight aggressive game and print money.

Not sure if any chip pics have been posted ITT yet, but I snagged a pic of my stack shortly before I cashed out and you can see each chip denomination in it

It is the rule there. Multiple floors have verified

There are two issues right now. One is that the systems aren’t integrated and the other issue is that point balances are just disappearing.

It could lead to collusion.

Good TR. Fyi, when you drive into the garage and drive down to level 3 and take the right at the bottom of the ramp, then turn right again, you’ll see Casino West signs, and if you continue to drive straight a few more feet, you’ll see the Casino North entrance signs.

Sir...you have a dirty "hidden" $100 chip, please correct.

Nice TR and nice what appears a super solid win at $2/5!

Like mentioned above...level 3, make right, drive almost to the "back" and you'll see signs for north elevators on the left. Very convenient when taken to mezzanine level. Let's you off at the mens bathroom in the back of the poker room.

I hate to be “that guy” but the previous trip report didn’t list it...

Are they still doing the parking validation and/or 1 red card point for parking?

My TR posted about a day ago above did. Yes, still doing parking validation as of Sat night. Just brought my ticket to check in counter, they scanned it, that was it, parking was free. No red card needed to show or scan.