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Originally Posted by PokerTek, Inc.
I cant speak for Harrah's Cherokee, but clearly there is demand for more tables. I will udpate this thread as soon as we know something definitive.
I played Friday. Word from the floor personel is that they are adding 2 more tables sometime in the next 2-3 weeks. Also, one of the floor told us that upper management is "shocked" at how well the poker room is doing. I heard the floor tell people several times that "And this is without any marketing!" Indeed, last time I checked, you can't find out from the Cherokee's website that they even have poker.
Harrahs Cherokee is in the process of a 600 million dollar expansion. The floor indicated that when the new space is complete the poker room will expand to 20 tables in a new location.
2/5 actually didn't get going until a little before 7 last night. When I got there about 6:45 I was third on the 1/2 list, four 1/2 tables were running and one 3/6 limit, but there were ten people on an interest list for 2/5. Shortly before 7 they broke one of the 1/2 tables and started the 2/5 game.
By nine pm there were 19 people on the 1/2 list and 9 on the 2/5. Wait times were about 2 hours to get on the 1/2 game. At 11:30 there were 19 people on the 1/2 list and 12 on the 2/5. At one am, there were 13 people on the 1/2 and 13 on the 2/5. Wait times and list lengths started to come down after that.
Down to one table of 1-2 around five am, when I busted my second buy-in and decided to call it a night causing the second 1-2 table to bust.
One annoyance, around 4:45 there were nine on one of the 1-2 tables and 6 on the other and the floor let one of the players from the 6 handed table move to the 9 handed table, and before that was letting players sit at the fuller table.
The table I was at was very tame, not particularly juicy with average pot sizes ranging from mid 40 bucks to upper fifties for most of the night. Around 3 am it suddenly picked up and for two hours the average pot sizes were over a hundred bucks peaking at around 150 dollars pot size average for a while, until one of two large stack maniacs packed it in. Unfortunately despite having position on both maniacs I couldn't take advantage, and dropped one buy-in with pf all in with my KK running into AA and a second buy-in when I flopped the nut straight but got rivered by a higher straight.
Everybody playing seems pretty excited to have poker at the casino, and I heard a number of comments from players either praising the automatic tables or to the effect of: these are much more fun than I thought they'd be. A number of people commented on the no tipping. There was some general disgruntlement about the no-comps.
I'm quickly getting used to the tables and like them much more than I thought I would based on my previous experience playing on cruise ships.