Not surprising. I would guess 80% of Sands players play at least once a week and the 90% of Sands daytime, weekday players play at least 3 times a week. Played 1-2 last Saturday afternoon-night and the majority of the players at my table were regs over an 8 hr session.

Packed house BTW, interesting to see what happens when the hotel opens and the Asian gaming section is added (20+ new tables).

if the currently only "value" their poker players (even 2-5nl) at 70cents/hours.. it's unlikely they will consider a poker rate anytime soon.

$149 is a bit high, but I guess they need to pay off the construction.

At just 60 minutes door-to-door, I'll drive home.

Don't worry, especially after the hotel opens and they start comping the old lady slot players, the old men will always populate the 3/6 game.

I've been doing well playing every other weekend at 1-2 with just an ABC strategy. What is the jump to the 2-5 game like?

Are you refering to the "new" high roller area?

Hey - I am one of those old guys - lol!

Anyway, can someone post and give me an idea if Limit Hold 'em runs during the week or what you have seen lately?

Thanks
"ThePiz"

You should be able to find one 3/6 limit game going on at just about any time during the week. I usually don't get there until 6-7 PM and the wait for me is minimal on getting a seat. Last Friday I got there about 10 AM and got an immediate seat.(I was off from work last Friday)

Until the above post made by Bored5000, the only time I've ever seen a 3/6 limit table break was when they were running multiple tables. One table broke and they just combined the remaining players from each table to make one full table.

I played 3/6 limit for a few hours on Tuesday and table was full the whole time I was there. I was 3rd on the list @ ~1830 and waited for about 30 minutes. List was up to 5 at one point.

With online poker on hold, I'll bet we start seeing an uptick in poker players at Sands. May take a week or so but they will come.

However online pros generally play good and
the timid ones prob won't venture to a real casino, so we'll see.

Any idea when sit and gos are and large tourneys are going to be a common thing??????

Played 1/2 for about 7 hours yesterday and got crushed. Some days you are the pigeon and some days the statue I guess.

Got away from a few hands and made some good laydowns, played too loose post flop and made a couple of good bluffs that got called reluctantly. In both cases the guys reluctantly called a 1/2 pot sized river bet with the phrase "I guess I will just pay you off...". I should know better than this and know how to beat this game, I just get too bored playing how I should. You can beat the 1/2 with ABC and patience, my issue is I am not patient and the play is so poor I just try too hard to capitalize on every situation. This style coupled with missing most of my draws, lead to a $500 loss.

Oh, well, maybe I will know better next time (but I doubt it...).

They haven't even started training dealers yet for tournaments. General consensus is 1 weekday event at 11:00 am. This may not even happen if the online players show up weekdays. I don't think you will see decent tournaments until the room expands again.

Can someone tell me how the action is on Sunday nights? Also if there is at least a decent crowd to make a trip there on Sunday night...thx in advance.

I don't think we will see a major increase due to the online situation. I know I'm only one person, but once PA opened their poker rooms I emptied my online accounts so I could play live poker only. I'm sure there is a chance that plenty of other people did the same. Of course I could be way off on this, but that's what I think.

I really hope that it increases action though , particulary limit. I was at a 3/6 limit table late Saturday night/Sunday morning and for the first time ever, while I was playing, the game completely broke and there was not a single limit game going at any of the 19 active tables....sad. I really wish we could get a 5/10 limit game going. If anyone ever has an interest in getting a bigger limit game going I'm all ears and am available just about every day of the week after 6pm. Weekends I can play whenever.

It's also spring break and Passover.. so people out for [religion], and/or away with kids for the week... including me.

Does anyone know any cheap hotels I can stay that are nearby Sands Casino? I looked at holiday inn express and it was around $120 a night ..really don't want to pay that kind of money when I'll be playing mostly poker.

Thanks!

What is the largest NL game they run or have seen go? Looking to get to some casino and that is the closest.

5-5nl runs basically daily, 1000 max buyin
5-10 nl runs sometimes and there is sometimes a bigger game running, maybe it's 10-25?

I've gone on a saturday afternoon and saw 30 people on the 1/2 list, I didn't wait long maybe 25-30 minutes. I was surprised at how fast I was seated.

5/5 does run basically daily and 5/10 maybe seldomly each week, but not very often at all. I've never heard of a 10/25 game going there.

There are a few on airport road and rt 22 in allentown. super 8 is cheap.

One Sunday afternoon the 10-25 game almost went (1 player short) but nobody had more than $1K of chips.

Can someone tell me how many 1-2 NL tables are running during the weekdays after 10 pm. And when their poker room starts to empty out. I live 1 hour and 20 min from Sands and it would feel like a waste if I sat for an hour and the table broke, or if I arrive and there are only 2 tables which are already full.

Im going out to the sands this sat 4/23 for the first time and I just wanted to get so info on the poker room. How many tables? How the action is at 1/2 nl; aggresive, slow, bet avg., quality of players and/or staff? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks

hotel opens middle of may I think, so that would prob be reasonable if you say you're playing poker. Don't know exact date sorry