That's also not the same thing. I get the complaint, but honestly that is a market reaction. If they weren't getting the volume they wanted they would probably drop it (Chasers switched their 5/10 to $7 time rake and still no 5/10 running). If most or all of the time rake players stopped showing up, they'd probably adjust it. I'm guessing that's not happening.

Rooms are at a premium for this property, even if you played 16 hours a day the room only made $256 (gross revenue) off you so why would they give you a $300-600 room comp?

Foxwoods/Mohegan had each other to compete with when it comes to offers. I imagine Encore is just charging what they think they can get while still attracting enough players for their capacity. I doubt they view FW, MS, or New Hampshire rooms as "competition".

I am curious what would happen if it was just straight rake instead of time for the mid-stakes games. I doubt anyone at the high stakes cares.

And if it is all time at mid-stakes what would happen if it was instantly lowered to $6/half hour. Would all the other room players come w/o the free rooms?

The free room thing at FW is because they have 4 hotels which are for the most part vacant on the weekdays so the cost to the organization is probably something like $20 to clean/re-stock the room. I would say Encore, with its lovely amenities (they offer super nice in-room coffee, toothbrush, toothpaste, and almost everything else is included in the room) might be $50 to clean/re-stock and they're pretty booked with so few rooms.

Part of the free room thing is hopefully you'll spend some $ at Panera or Fuddruckers or California Pizza Kitchen and tip the housekeeping, etc...

I personally tend to think and this is my own opinion that if the place attracts a more upscale/wealthy crowd they're more ok with losing $300-$1000 at poker at 1/3 2/5 and that is probably what kind of players we want vs the guy who is watching his bankroll and other considerations. We can hopefully make better assessments once they got all the IT stuff fixed, new food/menus, tournaments, etc... until then we can still consider this all growing pains.

desire do I trip report,pics maybe,etc
thx

Was he live?

About as live as you can be at 94 yrs old

With only 617 rooms on site, I don't expect them to give up free rooms to poker players. What I paid to stay there for 8 nights is comparable to what I pay when I stay at Philly's Kimpton hotels or Minnesota's Mystic River Casino for a suite. The Encore room is lovely, but the amenities nothing to write home about, i.e individual coffee pods, toothbrush, use of an umbrella in case it rains during your stay *eyeroll*. I loved the room although the tub is just a regular sized tub and not the over-sized soaking tub that is advertised. The shower is not as nice as Borgata's Water Club shower. And twice during my stay they chose to ignore my privacy light and entered the room once to clean it and the next time to do a turn down service. The first time they disregarded my privacy notice I was thrilled to see a diamond bracelet I had removed the night before and placed in the nightstand drawer to be left untouched. Thank goodness for honest people. I hope it comes back to them a million-fold.

My gripe is I fly 2400 miles round trip and there are games that I'm interested in on 3 days of my trip. I played a bit of 2-5NL but this game is boring as hell because it is full of nut-hunters unwilling to give action.

The time is not warranted because their dealers are too inexperienced, I'd say 90% of them, to keep a good flow going. There was so much bs, griping about one player not wanting to "participate" in the time pot, which caused the table banker to take him on about it 3 different times before the other player called for floor. Then another stunod would call the floor for bs reasons like why the dealer is mandating him putting in 8 dollars for the Omaha 8 portion of the 20/40 Mix when he is only there to play the stud portion. The games were horrendously stalled and that makes the 8 dollar half hour time even more egregious.

To sit there on a saturday waiting for a fixed limit game to go while checking Bravo and seeing 5-6 of those games going (20/40 75/150 stud) was maddening. A couple of Mass guys even got up and took the drive to FW.

The stud game in particular is so fraught with player bs that I was told the house is not interested in making it more palatable to fill that game. I believe it because it was infuriating to see them take at least 5 minutes of every down to settle disputes that the offending party knew was bs and still they pushed it, stalling the game and eating up our time. The player that refused to pay time for the Omaha and HE portions of our mix game was so ignorant to two floor men, telling them he didn't care what they had to say and wasn't going to listen to them and for them to shut up. They asked to speak to him away from the table and next thing you know he is telling the floor man to go f*ck himself and they bounced him for 24 hours. So the room was full of childish bs like that and too much of it.

I didn't see any food served that I would have ordered, nothing looked appetizing, although I don't eat at the table. Drink service was sporadic although a few of the servers were outstanding.

They're not attracting volume because of the rake/time and also because inexperienced dealers don't know how to keep the game flowing. It's one thing to charge, IMO, exorbitant time, it's another to play in a game that is constantly causing angst and anger because of the player bs needing floor attention.

It will be a great room if they can fill the tables. Hope they do.

I didn't see a single pit table with anyone playing less than green chips.

I saw one man playing 3 500 dollar slot machines at once. You just knew his mother left him millions and this was his idea of a good use for it.

Loved the property, was beyond disappointed with the action or lack thereof.

One nitty thing about the rooms I didn’t like is the fact that they have an iPad room service menu similar to Aria, but you need to call your order in instead of just doing on the iPad. Also, the late night food selection is something you would find at a third tier city Hyatt.

The property looks gorgeous, but amenity wise it’s not ready for prime time.

So bad news. Today they dropped the free credit amounts. Foxwoods platinum now only gets $50. I didn’t check the other tier status amounts but I will try to get the info

I brought my Amazon Firestick to watch my content and it was controlled by the room ipad. It was just a horrid application to navigate to what you wanted to watch. So if you bring your Amazon content, hope they upgrade the tech specifics where you can use the firestick to control content instead of their ipad.
I kept getting dropped and had to reload my user name and pw over and over again and on their ipad it was pure tedium.

Still, loved the room and hope they prosper to where it's worth going to play poker there again. Still no comp dollars showing on my red card.

Eh I disagree in terms of them not wanting to comp - encore lv does, and btw they are so generous in LV ...like whenever I occasionally order food there when I’m eating or playing either in a 500-1000 buy in tournament or cash game they always say I have enough on my card to cover the whole food order and I know that I don’t - I don’t grind enough hours there - I’ve been hooked up at Encore LV poker room many times without asking

Got 2-2 PLO8 going today and it ran from 8pm to 4am.

The 20-40 Mix had Badugi and 2-7 Triple Draw to make it HOEBT.

New food won't be for another week at least.

Crap, I told a bunch of people with Foxwoods Diamond cards about this, hopefully that's still $500. If anyone can find out please post about it. There must've been a ****-ton more people taking advantage of this promo than they expected.

Is there anywhere to park a small camper van with a clearance just over most parking garages?

Went wed morning and got 150 for platinum. cashed 115 on vid poker

Friday night I got $50 for Foxwoods Platinum... when I asked the guy he told me they just changed it Friday morning!!! WTF Encore you change your promo 1/2 way through it??? Total bush league move but from what I've seen its the norm with these clowns as everything seems to change midstream there instead of someone with common sense actually think things out before the implement a new plan, procedure, or promo and following through with what they actually say !!!!

You can park in the outdoor lot across they street, but they aren’t owned / affiliated with Encore and you won’t get validated parking.

Just got 500$ for mlife platinum today. The sheet behind the desk was marked up for other tiers. Did appear that the 500$ for higher tiers remains, others dropped from 150$/50$ to 50$/25$. Played my 500$ in vid poker and cashed out 410$. Headed to play some 4$/8$ next!

What about the parking lot at Wellington station?
I'm not sure but I thought I saw a sign that parking is only 4 dollars on weekends. From there one can take the Encore shuttle.

The parking lot across the street isn't affiliated with Encore, hence Encore doesn't validate for that lot ($20 for up to 6 hours, and $40 for 6+).

https://www.encorebostonharbor.com/t...arking-options

Would this community rate the EB as above average in softness?

Short answer: No.

well thats not encouraging lol

EB=Encore Boston?
I would guess that it depends on what you’re playing. 1/3 is like playing with high school students at a $20 buyin home game

Can confirm with my limited sample size.

ok good, i want to play some 1/3