It's not financially worth it unless you are winning at the tables. Don't delude yourself. There is a reason why they give away those freebies.

It's worth it if you achieve the threshold through ONLY poker play.

I think making diamond is worth it, especially in summer vacation months when comp hotel rooms Sunday-Thursday put you in free rooms for the heavier midweek tourist/fish traffic.

Free food works this way: With diamond status, u and a guest can get one free meal per day in the Diamond Lounge located in the High Limit area. It's not 5-star dining, but lots of Diamond-status poker regs take advantage of it.

Valet and access to the Diamond Lounge (free meal) shouldn't be overlooked, but only you can make the determination of its value to you. As a reminder, you earn $.70 in reward credits and 28 tier points for every hour (40 hands) of play.

FYI, PokerPro will be unavailable for play, withdrawals or deposits on Tuesday morning, November 6th, from 7:00am until approximately 7:30am.

Hey Anthony
Heard from a player last night that the comps were dropping to .50 for 40 hands played. Any truth to this? Thx

I think there is a post a few pages back on that subject.

Is there some way to automatically log off a player after sitting OUT 30 minutes? The one person working the room on a busy evening cannot keep up with seats are marked as OUT even if the person is gone more than 30 min. There was one seat at our table that was OUT for almost 2 hours, and other people were waiting to play. Seems like this would be a logical thing for PokerPlay to automatically handle.

There are no plans to change the comp rate at the moment. Be careful though, you may give us ideas....

Anthony, what are the rules about last call for drinks? I noticed that they seem to have last call at about 2 AM in the poker room, and was wondering if that is for the entire casino also? Personally I rarely drink in the poker room, but was just wondering due to an incident at my table on Friday night with a guy who ordered 5 more beers for last call and got completely wasted and a little out of control (he was pretty much drunk before last call).

I had a strange weekend (Fri, Sat, Sun) at Cherokee. Played about 20 hours total (I guess about about 1000 hands), and had to be the worst starting hands I have ever gotten before in that number of hands:

• One pocket AA, high card on board was K, no straight or flush possible, and of course I lost $225 to two pair.
• One pocket 1010, and hit a set on the flop, but lost $225 to a another guy who made a boat on the flop.
• One AK suited, I raised $15, and two others went all-in. Fortunately I folded, since the other two had AA and QQ.
• Several other pocket pairs, but all low, and none hit on the flop.
• Lots of A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8 and I don't recall hitting on any of them (maybe stole a few pots).
• The rest was mostly junk, but made a few flushes and straights.

But I made up for it with these monsters:

• Pocket Jx - Ended up with 3 jacks on the board for quad jacks. Busted out two others who both went all-in at the river (I was first to act and checked with quads on the river), but only won about $165 since the other two didn't have much money.
• Pocket 9s, 10s - Flopped Js, Qs, Ks for straight flush. Slow played it and made about $350 against two others. Only second straight flush I have ever gotten.
• Pocket Qx - Flopped top set (QQ4), and made boat over boat on the river, and won about $200. I could have made $125 more, but I didn't go all-in since I didn't know what the other guy had, and I was first to act (guy later told me he would have called if I went all-in).

Ended up $815 for the weekend.

At one table, there was a guy who said he thought it was rude to slow play a hand if you flopped the nuts. WTF?

Roger,

Good point. We discussed this during product design and chose not to put this in our system. Instead we clearly display on the screen how long the player has been away

Most manual rooms I've played have a "guideline" of about an hour. We thought it better to let the poker room use their discretion vs program a hard fast rule that automatically boots a player.

Thank you for playing and for your product comments

Obviously, each poker room should be able to set the limit as they see fit. I was not suggesting that the timeout limit be hard-coded. Also, even if the timeout is not automatic, it would be nice for the poker room manager on duty to see the which ones have exceeded a particular limit set by the poker room from the main control screen, etc, or something of that sort. The point is to not have to make the poker room manager go around to each table and manually check it, which they don't have time to do when things get busy.

"Manual" poker rooms don't need a limit, because the player has to leave his chip stack at the table and you know he is coming back. With PokerPro, sometimes players just Sit Out instead of Quit even though they know there is a slim chance they will be back.

I played poker pro before and the players I thought had a time limit set by poker pro

There is a 45 second time limit to respond to a hand (fold, raise, call, etc). I am talking about when a player sits OUT of a hand. All it does is display on his screen how long he has been gone and the poker room manager has to notice it if it exceeds their house limit and mark him as QUIT.

Yeah, it would be a nice feature if the floor's control screen would change a seat's color (on their screen at the podium) when a person has sat out over 30 minutes. One glance would show them all the 'timed out' seats.

As it is now they have to leave the main floor podium and go visit every empty seat in the room to read off the elapsed time at all the empty seats.

Also, on rare occasions, the empty seat where someone sat out will not have an elapsed time showing. No one seem's to know why, on these rare occasions, the timer just doesn't show up when someone sits out.

The real problem is some people will come back every 29 minutes, play one hand and immediately sit back out and restart the clock. They can do this all day long if they want to.

The ironic thing about this is that one of the main culprits that used to do this won a hot seat jackpot for like 10K back in April or something.

I was happy the dude won, but it was funny that the hot seat jackpot was awarded to someone who was literally never in his seat playing except for that one lucky minute.

I have had times when I got up and wondered a bit to refresh but being gone that often why bother ! Maybe just grabbing comps?

Nah. You aren't on the clock(for comps) when you are sitting out.

Some people live there. Literally.

All valid points. Thanks for the feedback.

Remember that you can always go to the Options-Help screen and call the host to the table. They will be alerted to come to table. You could also Call Host and Pause Game for extreme problems. The game will pause and the player action lights will all turn red.

I just get up walk over and explain the issue to the floor when my table has a 30 plus sitting out. I also walk the floor and find seats that are open to make sure I don't waste getting a seat. If the control screen at the front had these times on the screen it would prevent the brush from needlessly walking the room and writing down actions to be taken. The computer up front seems too limited in its information to do the job well.

All the more reasons to hire dealers and have real poker!

Ashe,

Yes! That is a pretty obvious and valuable feature we missed. Its been added to our feature list to include with our next software upgrade.

Thanks

So how's the tournament numbers nowadays? I am either heading here or WV for my tournament fix soon.

You are complaining about playing against drunk players? Holy moly, i'd have bought him a couple shots to boot!