Yes.

No. Please no. That has been asked several times recently in this thread. No one knows. Mike didn't answer, and I don't think ML has to reveal that. The state law is that they can't keep any of it, and no one suspects that ML is doing that. To violate a law like that would risk their state gambling license, which I don't see them doing. And there is no point in having people randomly speculate how large it is.

A pretty competent penny!!!_

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I just saw the February tournament schedule. It looks like the Friday $60 Omaha's and the $80 NLHE's have come and gone. I hope that when the new casino in Baltimore opens, they will offer some lower buy in tournaments. There definitely is a market for it though I know the casinos make more money off the cash games.

I love the idea of having a $600 tourney once a month. Hope to play it in January or February

Mini bad beat hit upstairs tonight. Aces full of kings > aces full of tens
From what I heard it was like 4100 to the loser 2600 to the winner and 268 across the table.

Man Robbed at Knifepoint Inside Maryland Live Casino Parking Garage

Not good.

i wonder if parking in the parking lot outside is safer than the garage. garage has all of the security cameras, but they don't seem to prevent anything.
i think if they posted big huge signs indicating that the garage is equipped with cameras everywhere, that'll at least be a hindrance to the criminals.

If you're referring to the woman who left her kid in the car in the cold for 8 hours, the woman planned it. She covered up the windows with sheets so nobody could see inside the car.

The alleged criminals in this case were arrested within hours - I think that'll be a pretty significant hindrance. Plus you gotta be a moron to commit a crime on casino grounds in the first place... (and these guys were early 20s so... yeah)

One robbery = camera don't seem to prevent anything? Sounds legit.

Better to park my car in a unmonitored, poorly lit, surface lot, instead of a 24/7 garage with MD Live security patrol, and dozens of cameras? I can't see the logic.

I believe this is robbery of casino customer in the garage incident #3 in the past 6 months or so.
but you're right. crime could be a lot worse than it is now, and they just naturally come with the territory.

but my original question was if it is safer to park in the open parking lot outside than inside and i think it would deter criminals even more.

Google news search found 2, by the same guy on the same day, 7 months ago, again with an arrest made.

Not to diminish the fact that a crime happened, but this is one reason why sleeping in your car in the casino garage is so dangerous. The victim sadly made himself an easier target because he was in the garage long enough for the thieves to formulate a plan.

This has less to do with location and more to do with opportunity. I'd say the lesson is clear, don't sleep in the garage if you don't have to.

Mike,
Thank you, thank you, for being responsive to some earlier comments, and raising the stack size to 8K for the $50 bounties in Feb.

Guys: stop picking on the waitresses; they're absolutely adorable. You are probably the same guys that complained about drink service at DP, where the bar was a literally 3 feet away from the poker room. Get up and walk around once in awhile.

I was thinking about coming down this weekend (Saturday) to check this place out and to play PLO/8, as Parx essentially never runs it unfortunately. Bravo app shows that 2-2 PLO/8 runs pretty consistently, so I shouldn't have a problem getting a game on late Sat afternoon, correct?

Do most people buy in for the max?

How is the play? When the game gets going at Parx its typically a limp fest until after the flop, when people get it in with all sorts of ridiculousness.

Thanks for the replies

FWIW, last week I was seated upstairs as they started opening tables, and there was a waitress training meeting going on. Hopefully, service will improve. And to be fair, some of the waitresses are pretty good, it's just the bad ones stand out so much. There just needs to be a few more. Even an experienced banquet server would have a hard time waiting on 130 people.

Equitable comparison here:

Last week we had the memorial service for my mother-in-law. The lunch (party/wake/celebration) that followed was buffet style. We had about 90 people in attendance at the lunch. There were 4 servers on hand the whole time mainly to serve drinks.

How MD live thinks 2 to serve a floor of 26 tables of 10 is remotely enough is incomprehensible.

Agree that the larger problem with the waitresses is that they are over worked and under staffed.

At least that's my perception of the situation.

Yowza, bad stuff right here. "If the service is bad, just do it yourself instead of requesting that it be fixed."

I agree that right now if you're playing near the bar, that's your best option. But that doesn't mean that Mike shouldn't be talking to whoever is in charge of the wait staff to correct the issue.

26 poker tables generate as much gaming revenue as 9 pit tables. Maybe MDL is putting resources where they think keeping players happy is more profitable.

It would be interesting to see how the F&B numbers compare (and as far as the waitresses are concerned, the amount of tips -- how much do you guys tip for coffee? ).

9 pit tables assuming all are blackjack with 6 players max, and assuming all tables are filled = 54 persons

26 poker tables assuming all are full = 260 persons

What does that have to do with the revenue being generated by the tables?

the entire discussion is in the context of appropriation of waitresses/F&B services.

And is the main purpose of F&B to make as much F&B profit as possible or to keep revenue producing players happy?

Given a choice, I would rather five poker players wait awhile for their drink orders than have a big BJ player wait. Just good business.

And are you assuming that a poker player would generate as much F&B profit as a pit player?

I think that if there's nothing to hide such numbers should be public record. Companies violate state laws all the time and are fined for such things. However many times the fines are so small compared to the profit made that its worth taking the risk that you're never discovered. Can you point to the state law that they cannot hold onto any of the funds and that, if it is found to have happened, their license is immediately pulled? Does the state have an obligation to reveal such investigations and their results?

If MD Live is not required by law to make such things public, they should do so as a show of good faith to their customers. Then there is no question (other than bogus numbers being reported) that things are being done appropriately.

Really, after walking to your car at Del Park at 1:00am, the garage at Maryland Live! feels like Disney . . .