447 includes re-entries

Will have to check out this tourney!

As a non-tourney player who just so happens to target 11-4pm on Sundays for when I tend to get my weekly Encore fix, can anyone who was there yesterday report on whether cash games were still running as smoothly as usual, with them being quick both on calling lists and filling empty seats at the tables? I'm mainly concerned with 1/3, but would also be curious as to cash games in general and before people started to bust from the tourney.

The Mass Gaming Commission released August revenues today. Encore was up about $3.8 million in August over July. I'm ready to hear how people hardly go there anymore. Particularly after yesterday's inaugural poker tournament.

Table game revenues were up almost $5 million to $32.2million and slots were down about $900K to $20.2 million. Total gross gaming revenue was $52.486 million. Again, this is gaming revenue only. It excludes hotel, f & b, retail, and meeting space.

For what it's worth MGM was up about $600K from July and Plainridge was down about $500K.

Quelle surprise

I got there around 3:30pm. There was a 1/3 list of about 10 people, which seemed longer than usual. I didn't hear my name called, but I got the text that my seat was ready after about 12 minutes, and wandered over to the 1/3 area. Only then it took me about five minutes to flag down a floor, as I think they had all been temporarily dragooned into moving velvet ropes around.

Other than that, everything was fine. Player turnover seemed a bit higher than usual at my table, with a few bustouts obviously just sticking a toe in the water or killing time while a friend was still in, but dealer pushes hummed along just fine, and the seats seemed to be getting filled up quickly enough when they did open up.

We're discussing.

Greek chicken salad, Antipasti salad, Caesar chicken salad

Turkey sandwich, Buffalo Chicken sandwich, Ham and Cheese sandwich, and two more.

All $12.50 which is $16 after tax and tip.

All the dealers said that it is usually pretty busy Sundays and last week (NFL week 1) was the quietest Sunday since opening. It was a little better yesterday. I definitely noticed a lot of slowness on seat filling, calling open seats, etc...

I had the chicken Caesar salad on Thursday and was pleasantly surprised. It was really tasty

Unfortunately these are all pre-made at like 4am in the main kitchen and they're all boxed up and sold at Bru and after 12:30am they offer them in the poker room because they probably expire or go bad after this 19+ hour shelf life. Some of the items were unavailable because they only make so man of them. I had the Greek chicken salad and it was good but way too much lettuce and not enough feta/chicken/etc...

Can't wait to hear from Rhode about the slower growth from month to month... 😂😉

Do they have the tomato mozzarella and basil sandwich from Bru? I've had that a couple of times and like it. It's not pre-made at Bru though so maybe not.

Oh mine was during the day. The chicken was warm so I’m assuming it was made to order.
It was huge. I’m assuming the late night ones are smaller?
I’m not a fan of the chicken Caesar wrap but a lot of people are, they should add that to the menu since they have all the components on hand.

Chicken caesar wrap isn't bad. I might get it again. Has anyone had the lobster roll?

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Ha! So it’s already on there? My bad

Don't remember seeing this one.

This is all on a new late night menu that they hand out after the grill closes. I guess on Sun it closes extra early.

The late night menu contains cold sandwiches, so I'm guessing it's different than the one you had during the day.

Any chance of getting the 8/16 mix going on Friday afternoon?

The only thing I care about is the poker and those numbers are clearly down. The addition of daily tournaments should give them another good bump in these cash game totals while bringing tournament players into the cash games which is always a great thing. As I said regarding the overall casino number, "I could be wrong", and apparently I was as it seems like the table games is where Encore is really crushing it. They announced last week that their slots were down and disappointing.

You don’t see many casinos take out slots to add more tables, but that’s what they are doing now.

I had to grind some slots to release my free credits - seems to be barely any quarter+ slots there - is that common now that vast majority are penny slots?

Also by you-
If one understands how public companies function they will understand that this is not “at” the top of upper managements priority list. It is the ONLY priority on the list. Every action is based on how it affects the bottom line. The fact that they seem to be altering their “5-star brand”’ suggests to me that their projections are way off target.

I totally called it that you would try to spin this and then focus just on poker and slots.
Who cares about poker if, according to your own statement, the bottom line is up?
You CLEARLY stated numerous times in this thread that pit games have slowed down considerably and that Encore was slower in August than it was in July. I’m not going to quote every post that you made stating your made up “facts” because this post would then be pages long. Your source is either imaginary or full of ****.

It's not like the old days of 1- 3 coin machines. On most "penny" slots you can be betting up to $5 per spin.