The thing Is it just ruins the game. I've seen way too many good games go to hell once one guy says he's not straddling if a second person says the same. Before you know it's it's half the table,the gambling vibe is totally ruined. It's not even like the pot sizes just get cut in half. I'd rather give the dirtbag reg his pathetic minimum wage win rate and keep the game fun and gambly.

I know a lot of people hate when someone hit and runs. I personally don't care if someone does it to me but don't like when they do it to fish and piss off the fish. But I'd rather someone hit and run me than just sit there folding every hand for 2 hours instead.

What's the deal with the 6/12 OE?

I've looked at Bravo a couple of times during the day and it's running, but when I've checked at night there's no game. Is there some sort of promotion or something that causes the game to only run on dayshift?

I'm headed to Philly later this summer and would like to play. Are there recommended days/times I should go to get a seat? Any other info about the game is greatly appreciated.

It’s a lot of retired people that play it so it is often during the day is my understanding. But it’s been awhile. I think it goes at night at times, other times there is 10-20 Big O depending on the day. Tuesday both games will prob go all day and night. 6-12 has a half kill to 10-20 which is good and 10-20 half kills to 15-30.

Yeah, it's just a table or two that dies out earlier in the evening than the Big O game does. (It used to be stronger before Big O started running, it's basically the same player pool that just got split in half.)

Any idea when tournaments are coming back? Over heard one dealer ask another if they are ready for tournaments coming back. So I'm assuming they will start up again.

To piggyback on this question, anyone hear anything? But also, tho I've visited this great room from out of town, I haven't yet for tournaments. I seem to recall reading that the Big Stax trnies were truly among the very bust structured trnies for their respective buy-in levels. Accurate?

Take this for what it’s worth but a guy at Philly live a few weeks ago claims he was offered a job to organize big stax, the biggest part of which would have been hiring 90 dealers. The difficulty of that is what led him to turn down the offer.

One possible impediment is that they have strict rules about appearance, or at least they did. Maybe post-COVID has changed their views but I passed an audition several years back to deal on call and tournaments but they saw my long hair restrained behind my back and said I had to cut it. They didn't hire men with long hair, even if it was restrained, even if it was put into a bun.

I was in a situation where I did not need the job and I was not prepared to cut my hair for an on call dealing job I didn't desperately need.

At this point I have a very long beard in addition to my long hair and I still have been able to deal at other casinos without problems. If Parx is still using antiquated societal norms to exclude dealers, they are purposefully removing prospective employees from their ranks.

Maybe they lightened up post-COVID, I don't play there very often so I cannot say.

Any recommendations on dining options with healthier selections within Parx (other than salad)?

While the burger in the poker room is great, it's a bit too heavy and knock me out for the rest of the night

Ugh I hope big stax comes back. By far the best tourny series in northeast. I don’t mind driving 4-5 hours for it- structures are so good and turnout is always amazing. Only thing I hate is they don’t run a single day tourny normally on Sunday or a nightly daily for people that bag etc. I know space is limited and dealers but if it was like vegas- you could fire more bullets. Traveling for 1 tourny kinda sucks if you ask me. Also I love how they have 300
And 500s but I’m not staying in Bensalem for a week. Maybe no with work at home but idk.

Lol awe big burger make you go nighty night

Poor guy

But get a Cobb salad from Chickie and Pete’s and throw a salmon on top. I sometimes do the burger on top instead but make sure it doesn’t make you sleepy sleep

There is so much interest and demand in the north east area ( PA, NJ, NY & MD)
Still neither Parx*nor Borgat or WSOPC is coming up with any tournament series to take advantage of a big market with no competition!!!

* I keep on hearing sine last 12 months that Parx is thinking to bring back Big Stax !! But still no news !!

Can we at least have a return of the nightly MTTs? As a local who visits somewhat often, those tourneys were a nice change of pace to play on a weeknight. The Parx link to tourneys routes the user back to the general poker site and nothing on Bravo.

I am hopefully with the tiny BBJ that they'll now look for other avenues to boost traffic.

What is BBJ !😧

40k

Either I am drunk or you are smoking!

I asked what is BBJ stand for !

BBJ = Bad Beat Jackpot

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Got it .

So BBJ is affecting cash game.

Bigger or smaller BBJ will not affect tournaments or give any incentive to casinos to offer tournament poker.

My question was why Parx , Borgata and other north east casinos currently avoiding tournament poker?
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They had 500/1000 mixed today. Was a waiting list for a while. I checked it out around 9 PM. They were 4-handed and appeared to be playing stud high. They were all youngish guys. I didn't recognize any of them, which would definitely not be the case with the 3K/6K at Bellagio.

Most likely:
* Staffing
* Space
* Opportunity Cost
* Extra work

For a long time, there weren't enough dealers. Not sure if this is fully resolved yet, I rather doubt it, but it's not the big issue it used to be. But you need more dealers to run tournaments usually.

You also need a space to run it. If they ran a big tournament, it would either have to reopen the Parx East space (I have no idea what shape that space is in now, or how much it would cost to use it), or use a bunch of tables that could otherwise be used for cash games.

Putting those together, even if there is a lot of demand for tournaments, you have to figure out what it gains you. Both in hourly revenue, and in lost opportunity. Everyone agrees that a cash table is worth more on margin than a tournament table. They could, probably, fill in the margin on slower days with some small MTTs, but in peak night and weekend periods that is when the cash games are fullest. They don't want to shut those down to run a less profitable tournament. Perhaps there is some cachet that comes along with having a bigger series, and that has a $ benefit maybe.

But, for whatever reason, they aren't. Most likely, the extra benefit is not work the extra cost and the extra work needed to run them.

YMMV. Keep agitating for them. But since you asked, these are likely reasons why it hasn't happened.

Parx has 48 tables and when the BBJ was north of 600k, combined with current high-hand promotions, many evenings there wouldn't be capacity for a 140-180 runner tourney like we used to get--for either tables or dealers.

It's too soon after the multiple jackpots to say which of the BBJ or HH is more strongly driving players to cash. But as Dinesh said, the same table would yield higher margin for even a 1/3 NL game than it would a MTT.

That being said, I don't want a Monday afternoon tourney. I don't want a 2-week long series of 250k guarantees. I just want my weeknight 7pm MTTs back. My hope is the low BBJ would show mgmt that an opportunity exists to monetize some underutilized space, should traffic decrease. In the meantime I'll just mingle with the HH hunters.

*I will say anecdotally, based on the exodus of OMCs to the cashier every time a HH period is over, that the high hand is more strongly driving players to the room.

**Even smaller anecdotal sample size: The bad beat number is what gets them (read: Tdmarathon86) to convince their wife to let them leave the house on a Friday evening. Admittedly, "Babe what if I hit when it's at 680k?!" is more persuasive than "I can pay your overdue library fines with my BBJ table share at 38k"

Sorry I am new to cash games. Are you talking about $500-$1000 Poker game in Parx ? For real !

I have never heard it even in Las Vegas !! Even if it’s there at Bellagio , it’s not common.

Yeah $500/1000 mixed. I haven't seen that on the east coast, particularly without a tournament going on. Bellagio has bigger mixed games sometimes and Aria sometimes close to those stakes.

From what I heard, they were playing just limit, no big bet games like Bellagio. Also, the were playing badeucy, but no really weird games like you see in $20/40 or whatever in Vegas.

Tuesday is the big night there, and they had $25/25/50 PLO and they sometimes have $50/100 NLHE.