At mt airy now, 1/2 booked with 18+ ppl on the wait list.

How is the action with 7 max?

Actions good unless you’re playing nits

I'm thinking of checking it out tomorrow, I called to ask what the max buy in on 2/5 is and the guy who answered the phone said it's only 500 do you know if that's true?

Yea it’s 1-500 but I’m not sure if you’re allowed to match that highest stack or not

Prob not. I havn't heard of a 100 bb buy in 2/5 game in this area for like 5 years very surprising.

For a guy like me who usually plays 1/2 the game was running very deep to me, most people had close to $1k behind after a while

I played the 2/5 this weekend and can confirm it's $500 max. From what I saw, the room is not well run and I doubt I'll ever go back. They have some rules which are particularly annoying, like raking the pot without a flop and "enforcing" the betting line. I say "enforcing" because it was more like the dealers constantly warning people and telling them that the next time they will enforce it...but then that dealer leaves and you get the same speech from the next one, but you never know when you're going to get "that" dealer (or a reg with the nuts).

The floor managers were less than great. They were super slow coming to the table whenever called, which seemed to be constantly as all buy-ins are done at the table (no cage in the room) and they color people up when leaving. They also weren't very accommodating - a guy sitting next to me asked 4 different floor guys a total of 7 times (we counted, and yes, he was respectful each and every time) for the baseball game on the TV right above the table that was showing the news....and then wheel of fortune...and then jeopardy.... They kept saying "let me see if someone requested it for the channel it's on" and would point him to a TV across the room. Finally one of the floor guys said the sports book controls the TVs and to check with them - sure enough we had baseball right away.

Most of the dealers are brand new which is understandable right now so patience is a must. If you're the type that gets tilted by a slow or inexperienced dealer this place will not be fun for you. Yet, they decided to open the only 2/5 game at a table without a shuffle machine, not that it seemed to matter as all the machines in the room were constantly throwing up the red light..

All in all, very much looking forward to the Borgata re-opening!

If you were there Saturday night there’s a decent chance that we played against each other, I had the rays hat on. With that said yes that betting line thing sounded crazy to me. It was the big guy(rob) who kept pointing out, the other dealers weren’t that anal about it. Dude they pointed that out to me when I had a $500 chip in my hand, I would’ve started screaming if they forced me to bet that lol

I've played at Mt. Airy several times and hearing the complaints, none of it is surprising. It's not a well run room. That being said, if you can get past those issues, the games have historically been pretty good there

That's me!!!

It's not that I get tilted by new dealers. I'm always patient with them, and do my best to help them out, but unless they've changed, they probably all look like new dealers because they rotate table games dealers from the casino floor so they don't have dedicated poker dealers. I didn't know they don't have a no flop no drop rule, unless the dealers didn't know that which is probably the case since I don't know how they expect to compete with nearby properties who don't rake with no flop.

I've also played in rooms with the racetrack line but it's just a reference point. It's not like the foul line in football. It just shows how inexperienced and unknowledgeable some of the dealers (and supervisors) are about poker. There are some good ones there that I know because they work part time at another property.

Thanks for posting your experience

Yup I was there Saturday night, and if you won that $500 chip after rivering a set of jacks, you got it from me

Lol nah I was right next to him, you got me with the set of 6s when I had pocket queens, I limped in and paid for it lol. Anyways nice playing with you. That was a good group of players I enjoyed that session

Rooms are expensive as sht. Any way to get a discount? Is there are poker rate for hotel rooms?

Haha nice - agreed it was a really enjoyable table. Pleasure playing with you as well.

Yup, maybe we’ll run into each other at borgata at some point, I’m glad they’re finally reopening after 9 months

How are the 2/5 games? Any improvement in dealers?

The no cage In poker room is a borderline deal breaker for me...what happens if you have a couple racks of chips you now have to walk onto casino floor with them?

The tables and cards and room are very nice. That alone makes me want to go back.

The action wasn’t great but I feel like I would need a couple more trips at peak times to make a fair assessment.

their poker room is still upstairs right? they had a cage last time I was there years ago. Where did they put it now?

The poker room is off the main casino floor in a restaurant that closed. It's near the escalator that comes up from Starbucks.

I can't help laughing at the post above you saying having no cage in the poker room is "a deal breaker" I mean wtf do some ppl expect a royal majesty to hand deliver chips on a silver platter as soon as they step into the poker room you can buy first buy in at the table. They keep them filled regularly. When you cash out you bring them to the cage like a 38 second walk away but you can't please everyone I guess.

tl;dr

After having an opportunity to play here over thanksgiving break going on 5 days now, I have to say every statement you made is totally on point. I'm old enough to remember that when the room first opened, they were one of the top rooms in PA. I know, hard to imagine. But they let that slip away easily, and now, with them being one of the only rooms open in the area, they have an opportunity to win back the poker community, but I'm afraid to say once the other rooms open up (esp. Parx) this room will again be dead.

Here, IMO, is what they would need to do to once again become one of the go-to poker rooms in PA:

• Raking without a flop: If you steel the blinds in 2/5 betting $15, they will take out a rake. Yes, No flop, there's still a drop. No room in this area takes a rake without a flop. You raise pre and everyone folds here, you get charged a rake.

• The "betting line": I wasn't exactly sure what xofm was talking about, and when I made a couple bets, I was given a stern warning about a "String bet". I figured the dealers were new, and just let it go. What they were trying to tell me was you can't cut out chips past the line-everything in your hand must be bet without taking anything back. If they would have just told me that the first time, I would of known exactly what the rule was but after several warnings a dealer finally explained it to me. I remember they had this rule down in FL but no one around here does it that way. Not a big deal, but explain why exactly I'm getting a warning

• Floor supervisors: The supervisors here are the absolute worst I've every experienced. There was one instance today where 3 supervisors were called over for a ruling, but it didn't seem like they even understood what the question was. The two players involved decided how to resolve it. I was also yelled at twice today. Once for talking to someone at another table, and another time for locking up a seat on a new game before it was "called". They put a 2/5 plack there so I put my card down. That was a no-no. I came to the game and my card wasn't there, asked where it was, dealer told me who took it, and I got scolded. When I used to work in casinos back in the day they stressed and drilled everyone on customer service. The floor here lacks any c/s at all and if they talked to people the way they do in other rooms, they would be fired. If I'm talking to someone at another table while walking back to my seat, I shouldn't have to be shouted at from far away to tell me I can't talk to anyone.

• Dealers: I have to admit out of all of the "inexperienced" dealers, they did a pretty good job. There are a lot of experienced dealers there from other rooms that are closed, but as great as they are, it's very unfortunate to see them leave after their down without taking the box. They are still pooling their tokes with the casino floor (and carrying the whole casino with that regard). Any good experienced dealer won't stay here when they can work at other rooms once they open that let them keep their own money that they earned. They're also very short on dealers that also know poker but that's understandable since the room usually only got a couple games off per day pre covid but unless you get here by 10am on a weekend, even if the list isn't too long you might have to wait hours.

The room atmosphere is comfortable, except for the cheap chairs, but they did the job. It's a quiet room, and pleasant to play there but all of the players that I know from the area all have the same concerns and once the other rooms in the area open this room will clear out. This is your chance, Mt. Airy, to make changed to improve the room before you lose all this business you're currently generating I can assure you, starting with customer service skills of the supervisors in the day shift.

I forgot to mention a couple of things the max buy in for 2/5 is still only $100 to $500 while the rest of the area is $1k, twice that amount (another reason a lot of the regular players don't want to play there). The game plays nowhere as deep as other rooms in this area and therefore strategy needs to be greatly adjusted (for good players).

Also I was in a hand today I think it was a limped pot 6 ways with like 4 players left on the river with 4 hearts on the board - first guy tables a deuce of hearts and before anyone else tables or mucks the dealer laughingly said "anyone else have a heart"? I almost jumped out of my seat before a player sitting next to me just said let it go which he was right but it's still worth mentioning itt



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They’re pretty inept over there... and getting chips at the table is just the tip of the ice berg for a poorly run room.

I too got yelled at for going to a game that was just called and trying to figure out if I wanted to play. I was told to get off the floor by some psycho power tripping girl running the podium. I get it corona. But going to a new game when it opens and putting your card down is all standard.

She literally had me leave the floor... then asked me what game I was on list for... I told her 2-5 and then she let me go back on floor and told me that was indeed my game.

Not to mention the trip before when I gave my cell phone and 3 hours later never got called only to find out they were aware that some service providers gave them trouble so I waited 3 hours for nothing.

But keep thinking I want a silver platter.. lmao I just want what’s standard in every poker room I’ve ever been to.. slowing down the games by doing buy ins at table is dumb imo.

I play mostly online but sometimes I need that live fix.. I drove to borgata yesterday and didn’t get called for 8 hours. So there’s really no good weekend options.

After borgata wait times I might actually consider going back to mount airy.

I never get texts either and I have Verizon. I also don't get them at Borgata but they use my email and I get it right away.

I told the podium master at Mt. Airy about it last week, and he asked me who my provider was - then said "with Verizon you need to be out of the poker room to get texts" which didn't make sense since I always get other texts and calls while in the room and they don't use email's. There's prob a way to put it in since it's the same bravo as Borgata but I guess they don't know how.

Today there were two more things I could add to my mt. airy list of pet peeves. First, the guy next to me asked a passing by floor to please take his empty drink (he was in a hand when the girl came and couldn't give her the old one) and he simply pointed to the trash can lol.

Another thing was they only allow one table change per 8 hour shift. There were 2 2/5 games today and one player transferred from the other game to my game, then an hour later he told them he wants to go back. They told him sorry he can't, he's only allowed one table change per shift, so he argued with them and a few seconds later he was authorized to move back. Such BS bc if I wanted another table change I wouldn't even bother asking (and it was the shift manager he was asking).

As much as I love going home every night and sleeping in my own bed, I'll be going back to MDL and/or Borgata instead.

Was anyone playing $1/2NL at mount airy last Saturday? I was wearing a Florida hat and crushing the game with my skill. Lots of players were getting angry because they just couldn't beat me. lol, keep practicing guys..