What's up with the late morning Friday waitlists? Haven't been there but noticed on Bravo huge lists starting around 11am or so...e.g. 60 players for 1-3. Is that correct? Do you need to be there early to get a seat for Friday?

Big promos and new dealer changes don't come until around noon-1pm


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Yeah, friday has a good promo going 915-215, and a lot of dealers come at 9 and 10 so if you dont get seated by 10 you generally are in bad shape till 215 when a lot of people get up.

I assume the same is true saturdays since its the same promo, but i dont play saturday too often.

Makes sense, thanks!

When there is any kind of half decent promotion going on the wait list gets to be 40 or 50 people long. So they decide to increase the jackpot drop to supposedly enhance the promotions and make this problem even worse?

What are we doing here???

Theoretically, the promos oughta take some players off the especially long lists (friday and saturday evening) and move them to different timeframes when the casino isnt as busy. They have been clearing out the lists pretty well at 9 am the past couple times ive been during the friday promo, id say its 50/50. Its still not filling the casino all the way up by any means, so its just them trying to guess how many dealers they will need, because its not consistent how many people show up.

I remember fri and saturday nights having 200+ long lists, i think its mitigated that somewhat. They arent running >600 promos often, they arent running promos during dumb (busy) times. IDK, im a hater and even to me it seems like they have a good handle on how to run promos. We will see in the next few months if they use the extra dollar to do the dumb **** md live does with 750/1000 payouts and ruin it.

Two people have had their cars stolen from the parking garage today. Someone was talking to police as I was entering the room and his Tesla had been stolen.

Another guy just left my table after he got an alert on his phone that his car had been broken into. He came back and got his chips saying his car was missing.

Crazy

I guess I 'll have to get a Yugo.

The must move and transfer lists at the PLO games are not being handled well by staff lately. Often they don’t keep track and simply ask the players who is next to move (which obviously leads to problems).

Can someone please train the staff on managing must move and transfer lists in a well-organized manner? It is not always being done currently and it is becoming very frustrating for the players to deal with (sometimes away from the table, when they could be playing hands instead). Thank you.

Why are the late night Promos at these casinos always so bad? If you're gonna be paying $3 you should have better than $300 every hour. The morning time is always so busy that you have to get there early just to get a seat.

Live and Horseshoe are the same way with bad late night promos.

Late night is rarely every busy.

"Why aren't they giving me more money at the slowest and least profitable time of the day even though it's still more than the the absolute majority of casinos in the country?"

Lol. Try going to other areas and see just how bad those promos are. MAIN daytime promo at Parx is $250.

You answered your own question. It's not busy hence they aren't taking in that much per hour. Having played a ton of hours at live I know for a fact you are not hitting max $3 every hand.


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Are you ok? Have you had a stroke recently or been exposed to high levels of pfas at a military base?? Why would we want miserable promo grinders from the morning with their fiction novels and laptops ruining the fun late night action games? Next time think a little more or go to a doctor please.

They used to have good promos at night and the games were always good.

The games in the morning are good too - the games are almost never bad.


What does that have to do with anything? is Parx paying $3 a hand to a promo pot? If anything the promos help the dealers more than the players, so the late night dealers probably get lower tip share than the late night ones because of the weak promos. I'd rather no promo drop but what ever, it's not that big of a deal.

late night stays busy until around 2-3am - wouldn't you want to give people an incentive to keep the room full round the clock? Friday and Saturday morning they give away 32k for the lucky tables - wouldn't it be better to just spread that out through out the week?

I mean obviously you must know how to run a poker room better than anyone else.

Us mere mortals just use our regular brain and figure it wouldn't make any sense to have better promos when it's dead just to make a few degenerates like yourself happy. What are we thinking?


All jokes aside, no your idea is dumb. Also they are now doing a last 15 promo starting at 915 pm. Regular people have to work during the week so they aren't going to cater to a handful of late night weekday people. And as you noted all the other Maryland casinos don't either.


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This room is successful because there is no where else to play. A lot of people complain about this room, because the lack of care is just so obvious. I live 20 minutes away, and I would love some competition but it's illegal. I believe I could run a much better poker room because I would at least care and not fleece the games in a rake trap while offering better promos and comps.

Not really sure how you came to the conclusion i'm a brain dead degenerate but what ever, I play here 2 times a week and sometimes wake up really early and come in to play because not much else is open at night. The night imo has much better games compared to the day time at 1/3. 2/5 is mixed and 5/10+ rarely runs late night.

I played this weekend during the day, and all my tables were pretty slow, with a low pot sized average rarely hitting $50 (sub-optimal table) The over night tables are far better on average, with pot sizes of 200+.

Maryland live does a better job but it's an hour away but they have lousy late night promos as well. At least they care about their players, and will comp them - well at least they used too. (I am no longer a Platinum member of Live so I don't know if they still give those nice rewards) - I was Gold teir at MGM and it got you nothing and was much harder to get.

You get $1.50 an hour at mgm in comps. What are you talking about? Lol

There is competition 35 minutes away, again what are you talking about? It's no secret that mgmnh is the best room on the entire east coast and one of the best in the country. Hate to tell you this but mgm is corporate and every corporate casino is similar in how poker rooms are run.

You may not be brain dead but you're the epitome of whiny poker players. Why do you think the waitresses hate getting stuck in the poker room. Because of whiny cheap poker players like yourself.

You seem to think other states give better comps and perks and promos, they don't.

Could they improve some things? Sure. Drink service is terrible, bathroom cleanliness is poor and it'd be nice if HR didn't do dealer schedules instead of the poker room manager. But I've played all over and I'll take mgm any day. Go to live and tell me how the action is


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Also you proved your own point of why they shouldn't do better promos late night. Because then you'll have the weekend morning crowds trying to hit high hands and never putting money in a pot. You sure you're not brain dead because you answered your own question lol


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What about tier credits for poker? Do you earn any, and if so, how much?

Vegas does goofy things like track your hours and if you make it to a certain amount (don't recall how many) you can make it to pearl or gold.

Borgata does 115 tier credits per hour played for 1/3 I believe, it could be more for higher games?

What does MGM do???

No tier and as far as I know borgata stopped. Tier credits only mean something to idiots that play table games and slots. Only a sucker would play those.


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Driving an hour vs 20 minutes is a lot. Who is gonna drive an hour vs 20 minutes? You have to drive back as well.

The action at Live is great for the PLO game and it's timed rake (better than the MGM ones). Not sure about the 1/3 games. Last time I played them they were really good.

I don't think i've ever played a game at a casino that was bad (people play so far from GTO) - just some are better than others. The only rough games are where the rake is high and the pot is under $50 most hands.

The worst games i've played were in Atlantic city or maybe Las Vegas but even those were good compared to how difficult online poker is.

Anyways there is probably very little convincing you. This is how I feel, and people I talk to at the tables feel the same way.

For someone who is lobbing tons of insults, you seem to fundamentally not understand the purpose of promos, which is to generate business. Djevans question is completely reasonable, you would expect the casinos to offer promos during slow times to encourage more players to show up.

I do have an answer (its not any of the answers this guy gave).

Its easier to staff the casino during the day, people dont want to work middle of the night, and one of the tough parts of running a poker room is not bringing in too many or too few dealers. Friday and saturday mornings wouldnt have so many players if not for the promos, and it basically fills the casino, so it allows for them to be able to easily judge how many deslers they need, and also to keep their dealers reasonably happy since a lot of dealers get to work 9-5 shifts instead of the unpopular graveyard shifts.

Does the 60/120 LHE still get spread here?

How about mid to high stakes limit mixed games?

Thanks.

20/40 limit hold ‘em on Thursdays. For higher mixed games try Sunday Tuesdays and Fridays, although they are hit or miss lately. You need to get in touch with the organizer to know when it’s going to run.

Thanks, what's the best way to get in touch with the organizer?

It’s likely going to run tomorrow at 2. I’d just show up and try to get his number. Big Asian guy.