Validate at poker check in desk prior to exit (as of 2:30am Sunday, anyways.)

Regarding the cell phone signal, there is a whole category of products and solutions for this problem. It's common in newly built or configured office buildings to have technicians testing signals and adjusting equipment to optimize the signal throughout the building. So Wynn can (and I assume will) fix the problem.

Or the 3rd of squeezing every penny from its customers to make their quarterly numbers so the stock price doesn’t take a hit. It doesn’t pass the smell test that a month into operations on top of the additional prep time leading up to the G.O. that their rewards system would still be “broken.” Chasers had theirs integrated with Poker Atlas quicker with 99%+ less manpower.

https://whdh.com/news/lawsuit-encore...slot-winnings/

Shoot, I forgot to mention the parking validation in my trip report.

When you enter the parking garage, the machine that gives you a ticket has one button to get a ticket, and a slot that says its for your red card. What would putting a red card in there do?

When I left, I asked the cage how the parking validation worked, and she just pointed at the main signup desk. I asked for parking validation from the employee there, and she just took my parking ticket and gave it back after a bit and said I was all set. I don't think I even had to give her my red card, IIRC. When I went down to pay at the machine on my parking floor, it just said I was all set, I didn't have to put a dollar in, or my red card. So I guess it's just free? But how did the lady at the desk know if I played for an hour or not?

Sweet, thanks!

No idea where that lawsuit is coming from. I've seen my buddy cash out at ticket redemption and get offered a ticket with the coin amount to redeem at the cage and the gaming regulations clearly list 6:5.

As for Poker Atlas, Chasers did have the advantage of setting up with them from the get-go so I don't think there was any integration other than the restaurant/bar figuring out how they wanted to accept the vouchers printed by Chasers whereas Red Card system was already their system in Vegas and elsewhere.

I don't remember exactly how I used my comp dollars at Encore Vegas to pay for my meal, but I did have to leave the restaurant and go back to the poker room to have the floor manager do something ("release" my points?) then go back to the restaurant to use my Red Card. So it isn't a perfect system either with or without Poker Atlas. I went again last night and honestly forgot to look into my comp dollars again. I only drink at the tables, I mostly play later at night so I don't eat. I'm basically saving up my comp dollars for a big date with my wife or if they ever have some form of entertainment I want to buy tickets for/partner venue I can use my comp dollars to buy at.

1. There are major casinos out there that have never integrated poker rewards with the rest of the player rewards, and have been separate since day 1. It wouldn't be unprecedented if Encore went that route too.

2. MGM Springfield pays 6/5 BJ and has been open for nearly a year. If there is truly a law on the book prohibiting this, where have the plaintiffs been the past year?

3. Foxwoods, and I'm sure other casinos, do this. You bring it to the cage, pretty simple and obvious. If you want to argue it's not, well... when you cash out your ticket from the slot machine, how do you know where to go with it? What, there's a sign that says Ticket Redemption? Well for all I know, that's where you go to pick up show tickets. Also there's a sign that says Cashier Cage. So that excuse doesn't hold water. IMO I've always thought it's brilliant on the casinos' part to do it this way, exactly because people won't bother, and I think it's perfectly legal too. Was there a lawsuit when casinos moved from cash/coin to TITO for slot machines?

They're not super tight with the parking validation. I've been scanned at the desk and I've also been given a comp ticket to scan by a floor manager. No questions asked. Pretty sure you could walk into the room and ask for one and get it, even without playing poker. It just isn't their concern, it seems.

If the free parking eventually goes away, yes you could use your red card to pay for parking at whatever rate they're offering when that happens.

6 to 5 variant is only for 1 or 2 deck blackjack dealt from a deck in the dealer's hand (i.e. not from a shoe, regulations very specific). For traditional 6- or 8-deck BJ the regulations state that BJ is paid at 3 to 2.

https://massgaming.com/wp-content/up...ck-2-11-19.pdf

Oh man, that's half my game, talking heads up. Seriously? You can't have a conversation if you're heads up?

For those of you looking for cheaper food, Drugstore, located near the main entrance by the carousel, has several sandwich and salad options under $10, that don't suck.

Yeah I saw that too, but what are they alleging that the casino is paying 6:5 on every bj? Because I know for a fact people have found and played 3:2 there.

Wow thanks for the tip, I probably would have never wandered in there otherwise. I'll check it out

https://www.encorebostonharbor.com/shops/the-drugstore

I’ve been admonished by players and a dealer for talking to my opponent late in a hand heads up. This is literally my only complaint with the room. Well...that and no watermelon juice, but I digress.

How is $5/$10 at Encore? Enough randoms to even out the regs?

Also, is it significantly better on weekends compared to a work night, or nah?

First BBJ got hit. Str8 flush over Str8 flush. Loser had 2c3c. This was at 3/6 limit

I played 1/3, 2/5, and 5/10 all night Friday into Saturday. The 5/10 players really really really like to 3-bet preflop very light (Unless they saw me as a weak player which is a possibility). They also love to auto raise the flop after you c-bet (Again, it could be because they saw me as an easy target) . So your skills will be tested at 5/10 and for a higher amount of money, at least mine were. I moved back down to 2/5 and felt more comfortable.

At 1/3 and 2/5, the players were your typical just learned how to play poker, standard play with a sign on there forehead. There are some good players playing 1/3 and 2/5 but the ratio is a lot lower than 5/10.

I would just play both. If you don't feel comfortable at 5/10, simply move to 2/5.

Most TRs ITT have reported that parking was free. One could probably assume that parking is free unless mentioned otherwise in a recent post.

Although I resigned from my position as Head Parking Attendant, I can still verify that it is free

Self Parking is free with the poker validation ticket.
Note that Valet parking is not free with validation ticket.
This used to be the case before, but not any longer.
If you want to park valet then you can use your red card and is only $1 comp.
Which is a great deal specially if you stay for a whole day. $1comp > $49

You’re missing the $1000, $5000, $25,000 and $100,000 chip denominations sir. Just saying

Thank you very much for this, this is extremely useful

Went again last night.

1) Floor confirmed that talking about the hand or exposing even heads up in any game at any stakes is not allowed "basically all the cash games are run like a tournament". When I mentioned that I've seen it allowed and read posts about it happening often in bigger games he shrugged as if to say that dealers aren't always consistent in rooms.

2) Parking garage now has the space counters so that when you're entering you can see how many empty spaces are on each level. Green lights on the ceiling throughout the garage also indicate the location of empty spaces.

3) Tried to check my comp dollars with the poker host and a slot machine. Host and manager reiterated that the systems aren't integrated yet but that our comp dollars are accruing. Slot machine showed $0 in Comp Dollars.

4) Had one guy at our table try to commit a very nice, novice player to a $200 raise with no cards UTG at 1/3. Player A had started to rack up, folded his cards and before Player B acted Player A pushed two stacks of red forward. Player B folds, dealer see the stacks and asks Player A "what's that?" Player A asks to "cash out" (color up). The villain asked the dealer "doesn't that have to be a raise even though he doesn't have cards?" Dealer said no, but villain wasn't satisfied. Dealer doesn't take the color and Player A leaves. Villain calls floor and floor acknowledges that if the player hadn't said color up before pushing the stacks forward it would be a bet even without cards IF the bet influenced action.

I have zero problem calling out villain as a scumbag here. IMO the only one with a legitimate complaint here would be Player B, but if that's me I let it go no matter what I was holding. I'm not going to punish someone for a procedural mistake, especially for that amount.

Weird had the floor tell my table yesterday this rule had been lifted and talking heads up is "allowed to a certain extent". This occurred after the dealer stated no talking. Happened around late afternoon early evening at 1/3.