Maybe try to build the interest by alternating orbits with regular PLO like at the Commerce?

The 2 pits below the poker room are all 3 to 2 and are on both sides of craps. One is in front of Dunkin and the other is next to the down escalator. The 6 to 5 games are the 2 pits under high limit behind the bar

I guess. I also guess that if parking spaces get filled up with commuters, the policy will be changed. OP mused about the effect that free parking will have on commuters. I guess further, that time will tell. IMO, using the Encore garage as a launching pad for Boston commuters will turn out to be more trouble than its worth.

Free parking at Encore garage from 5 AM Monday on, as long as you exit before 5 PM on Friday.

You're certainly in the minority. Months ago when the parking details were announced most ITT understood the need for them to charge for parking (repel Boston commuters), we were all just hoping there would be a validation process for playing. But as you say, time will tell, and if this was a mistake they'll reverse course again.

Oh you have to exit by 5 on Friday? I figured the timeframe was for arriving only.

The tweet indicates its for arrival only:

https://twitter.com/EBH_Drive_Park/s...95669661458434
https://twitter.com/EBH_Drive_Park/s...97833452544000

Good luck getting any comps put onto your card period. I played for 8 days and my card never showed the first point.

Out by 5 pm Friday, but if you put in your 3 hours, You’re good to go.

8:15PM, garage full. first time i’ve seen that.

Rumor is their Red Card developer is dragging feet with Poker Atlas integration because they are partnered with Bravo and Bravo is pissed EBH chose Poker Atlas. Your points are there, but they can't transfer them to Red Card until the other company cooperates.

Sorry if this has been asked already, but are backpacks allowed in the casino/poker room?

Everything I’ve read says no, but the dates of the responses were around the grand opening. I’m assuming security was tight the first week or two. Wondering if that policy has changed.

They haven't really been bothering people with backpacks. I use a medium size bag and thinking of going even smaller lately.

People are just so petty and stupid. A company that drags their feet when hired to do a job because their other client is pissed is one way to get a horrible reputation. If you are the developer you need to focus on the job at hand. It is very pathetic that no one can push this to get done. Yada yada yada Wynn/Encore Las Vegas uses Bravo which is a piece of garbage...

Was just there and regarding parking a friend came to watch Tony Bennett perform on comped tickets and he scanned his parking ticket on the way out and it said good to go free.

Oh, oh.

Probably due to Tony Bennet performing

I sure hope his attendees aren’t still driving.

Yea when I arrived last night around 7:00 I had trouble finding parking, had to go down to B4 instead of my usual B3.

A bit confused on how the new parking works. When I arrived I just hit a button for a ticket like always, didn't scan my red card or anything. When I went to leave I asked about validation, and the dude at the desk said he didn't need to scan my ticket because of the new policy (he mentioned arriving between 6am Monday and 6pm Friday which is different than the 5am/5pm time the Tweet says), and to scan my red card instead.

Well when I went to leave I put my red card in the exit machine and it did nothing, so I scanned my parking ticket and it just let me leave. So I guess they are not even confirming that you have a redcard or anything between M-F now, your parking ticket will just let you out?

This seems more excuse making than actual truth. I think it's more likely they have little interest in handing out comps to poker players and it's been placed into the "nice to have" category. I mean Chasers had a whole system up and running really quick.

Anyone at the $2/$5 table last night with the super drunk guy?

To be fair, there's no teeth to the rumor. Just some poker player doing some digging and formulating a hypothesis and then it snow balls and bam, everyone runs with it.

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Anyone know the maximum height for the parking garage? Have a Ford Super Duty, needs 7ft of clearance.

Both Chasers' rewards system and table systems are handled by Poker Atlas, so there's no integration to manage. All the bar/restaurant has to do is take the vouchers players give them and have Chasers reimburse them for it. Nothing to do with software so that isn't really the same thing.

It may just be a dealer rumor (I was told the same story by a manager) but it certainly seems more plausible than Encore being ok with players constantly harassing them about comps and writing bad reviews. I get that poker isn't a big piece of their financial pie, but I don't think they are the type to ignore a problem either. I guess only time will tell.

They certainly are ignoring the problem that an 8 dollar time every down has created. There was so much complaining about how it was too high, how Foxwoods gave free rooms and a lower rake, etc. Rolled right off their backs like drops of water on a baby duck's down.

I can't understand why they didn't open up gangbusters, offer a 5-6 dollar rake just to fill the room. It's costing them more to charge top time than to lower it and make it up in sheer volume.

Inevitably, when a complaint is known and is such a prevalent one, it always means that staff have no power to do anything about it. It almost feels as though Encore corporate feels they are too high-faluting (as my grandmother used to say about her bank) to have to condescend to their patrons legitimate concerns.

Nice room, great people, still no comps listed after 8 days of play. Great hotel room, got to see a lot more of it than I wanted due to no available limit games 20-40, 40-80, 80-160 stud, mix or HE.

Hope it improves by my next trip Labor Day week. *sad sigh*

The parking thing during weekdays is completely free for everyone so you don't even need a Red Card, just scan your ticket on the way out and it will say you are good to go.

Tony Bennett apparently is still a big draw and it did seem like it was 90% people over 60.

I don't think they are actively not caring about what players want just that they're not really capable of doing anything about it because they seem to be pulled in so many directions. Somehow the swipe card thing at each table that links your Red Card to some database with Poker Atlas isn't able to sync up with the Red Card rewards database is one of the funniest jokes of IT as that is basically what developers do from an entry level perspective right?

Even worst case scenario there has to be a way to manually transfer the data once a day at worst from the Poker Atlas info (which they have, you just have to ask at the Red Card desk on the right of the cashier how many hours you've played so far and how much comps you've earned) to the Red Card rewards system. It doesn't have to be instant like it is at other places where you can use your comps as soon as you finish your session.

What did you do for vegan food during your stay?