Haven't been to the lounge in a while, but according to the links, you need to be 25k points to enter. Or be ahead of their schedule in earning points this year.

Also looks like no more free food, but you can order off their limited menu for a price. Maybe it's not a zoo in there on Fri and Sat nights anymore. Anyone been there recently?

https://www.caesars.com/horseshoe-ba...8#.WuB8lIjwZaQ

https://www.caesars.com/content/dam/...arte_final.pdf

Anyone there for the tourney today? Numbers/turnout?

In case anyone is wondering, enjoyed the tourney yesterday. More people than I expected and I was very impressed by the floor staff in the tourney area.

no more free food?
yeah, i can see it being mostly empty

The tournaments have been well run but having to take your chips to the cage upstairs is just awful.

This, 100%. That said, the tournament experience was much improved over last year. Hope they keep this stop on the Circuit schedule and it gets back to what it was a couple of years ago in terms of turnout.

Does the pink chip game still run on Monday's? Checked Bravo last week and seemed like it wasn't running. Anyone know how long it runs as well?

Haven't seen that run in ages, but admittedly haven't paid attention for the last 6-9 months since they didn't support it running consistently. Occasionally pink 5/10 LHE runs at Live with half- and full-kill. Start the list there on any given evening and it might go (especially if High-hands running, since it's eligible and max-rake of $3.)

Thanks! I am pretty sure I saw it running about 2 months ago when I stopped in but maybe I am wrong. I hate how we don't have any 5/10 or 10/20 mixed games primarily HORSE running around here. I used to love the 10/20 OE/Stud 8 that ran at the Taj most nights back in the day. Anyone know where this kind of game could run anywhere near MD?

6/12 OE goes off with random regularity at MD live, best bet is Thursday or Friday nights when there's no big high hands going. Or Saturday if dealers from other places are around.

Pizza's place offers $6 24 onces cans of beer. Any other place does it in the casino?
Running girls say "they don't have it", only 12 onces bottles.

No WSOP Circuit at the Horseshoe next year. Pathetic.

Yeah. SAD!

Wait.... how u find that out??


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http://www.wsop.com/m/news/?newsID=1...2018&Month=May

I know Vic had to really push upper management to get a circuit stop last year. I guess that fight went the other way this time. It's so insane, given that they just print money off having the stop.

The casino literally cares so little about poker that they're passing up automatic profits.

Game over man, game over.


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I don’t think Victor is even there anymore...& I wonder if this is the end of the Poker room ??


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In April, Horseshoe took in
$12,810,000 after Maryland gaming taxes.
$417,000 of that was from poker.
Or around 3.75%

That's profit, right?

Would you like to own a business that made $417,000 in profit in a month despite being very poorly run/managed? That's no major shot at Victor or poker management, as they have no control over the cage being closed in the poker room and the food & beverage service, but a room with poor service made $417,000 in a month and I think just about anyone would gladly operate a business that made that much money.

Also, it's not like they could just plug slots into that space and automatically make more than $417,000 a month in additional profit - there's diminishing return when you keep adding more of the same.

Poker also generates revenue for the casino that is not counted under the poker room. Think food and beverage, think one friend/spouse plays poker while another plays blackjack or slots, etc...

Is that profit or gross? They still need to pay salaries, shuffler rentals, etc.


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That's why I asked if it was profit in the first sentence of the post .

Even if it's gross, and the margin is as low as 5%, that's 250K a year in profits and my points still apply.

They'd also be doing significantly better if they had just average food and beverage service, and the cage in the poker room was usually open.

Once you start breaking down the 417k it's pretty obvious it's gross.

Looks like it is gross. Still, like I said, at even 5% profit you're making $250K a year off the poker room (and I think 10% is a more realistic margin). Sure it's a drop in the bucket of a casino's profits, but it's a pretty healthy business that plenty of people would be thrilled to run, and you have a diminishing return on adding new slots at some point.

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