Like that this thread has started all ready.
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Originally Posted by poconopike555
Got word this weekend that the poker room at pocono downs is set to open up any time between June 28 and July 5.....from what I hear these dates are set in stone
16 table room
Dealers keeping own tips
24 hours a day
Also which is gonna be a player favorite is the lowest rake in the state!!!!! $4
10-20 limit and up will be a time charge of $5 a half hour
Dealers are taught all games
Now being I'm new to the area what games are going to be in demand I'm curious to all feedback any questions anybody has I'll be happy to see if I can get answers
A set in stone date is going to be hard to come by since nobody knows how long the PGC is going to take to approve the whole set up. However, as I said in another PA poker post, they really love the marketing of Pennsylvania's First Casino and they are determined to keep that mantle.
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Originally Posted by JohnWilkes
Pocono Downs is less than 1 mile from Wilkes-Barre. Take the North East Extension of the Pa. Turnpike to the Pittston Exit, one exit past the Wilkes-Barre exit. This will take you about 3 miles out of your way but it will avoid some traffic, a nasty hill and easy to confuse directions.
Once off the Turnpike in Pittston you are on Route 315. Head south 4 miles, Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs is on your right.
Less than two and a half hours from the Philly exit of the North East Extension with a long coffee stop thrown in.
Dude, you need to to not fall asleep in Allentown since you take about an hour longer than I do to get from Philly
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Originally Posted by poconopike555
i think there may be a plo game here or there but heres how i envision the room on a friday nite
7 1-2 nl
3 2-5nl
2 10-20lhe
2 4-8lhe/oe one or the other
2 2-4lhe
now u may see some stud in there but i would say those will be the staple games
i would love for the 10-20 to be a staple game......
one way or the other looks like the room will be juicy and a fishpond
Fishpool sounds like an understatement from the people I have talked to. My one friend likes to get people to tell their bad beat stories just to make me drool.
I know alot of the old timers play a ton of stud still, a few who are the simulcast regs. They don't really like hold'em.
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Originally Posted by JohnWilkes
I am told that the poker room will be near to the race track. Sweet.
I was in the room for a few events before it became a construction site. If it turns out to be what was described to me it will be real nice.