100% this. It's all I ever hear from my friends who play here and there and ask me about poker. "Oh this guy chased me down or called $20 pre (at 1-2) w 63o and cracked my AA. I probably should play 2-5 or higher right cuz these donks at 1-2 are so bad..."

That is how you want players to play if you have a clue about how to play poker profitability. Obviously for them playing once a month it can be frustrating when it goes the wrong way. But doesn't change the math. There is plenty of that at SHRT. People who complain about it for the most part aren't true winners in the game or can't adapt enough to ultimately be profitable long term.



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Are they still doing the mini bad beat?

Yes. The 10% of the main jackpot amount that the mini wins is taken from the main jackpot amount. If the mini gets hit, the main will be 10% less, and wont be added to anymore until it is hit. So the more times the mini gets hit, the smaller the final main bad beat will be when it finally gets hit.

Thanks. I think it might have been better if they eliminated the mini at this point.

Aprils promos are up on their Bravo page now. Its too long to list all the different times/amounts here. But its high hands 24/7; highest being fri and sat 4p to 2 am 1000 on the hour and 500 on the half hour. Also 75 hours gets cash that varies by game from 350 at 2/5 to 150 for 2/4 nl.

Finally some decent promos. About same as late 2017 IIRC. Hope this actually brings the recs in. The 500 dollar every 20m Tuesday/Thursday should be good. It's slightly less money than 777 every 30m but I think more frequent high hands create more excitement.

Also they have play and earn back, 350 for 75 hours. Not as good as some in the past but it's the right direction.

Also, no minimum qualifier for high hands. Ace high can win. It won't, but it can.

Eh, not a fan of this particular aspect. Some much time is going to be wasted waiting on high hand verification for one pairs and whatnot that have basically no shot at winning. Just leave the min qualifier and roll it over imo.

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I'm fairly confident no one is going to be trying to waste time with a pair of aces for the high hand... lol And if they do, I actually think it would be pretty funny... I'm guessing there's some sort of minimum, even if it's just a full house.

the no-qualifier thing is going to be a potential cluster**** lol

Yeh but once some full house is up there not like people will be calling floors for lower. And that will be pretty quick on the board. But I do think it would be better to keep minimum so still rollovers. Definitely keeps action going with chasing when you have a $1500 high hand up there. Would be some nice rollovers on days like today where it's $500 every 20 mins.



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What are your opinions on the recent decision to have no future BBJ? They are still taking $2 drop but it all returns in promos.

I'm personally a fan. I don't think the BBJ draws people nearly to the degree good high hand promos (like 1k HH) does. Still I would have preferred they keep the BBJ but just cap it really low and put it like 80/20 into promos/BBJ.

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@DCFT Your avatar freaks me out.

The bbj used to be capped at 50k. But everyone said that 50k, with it being so hard to hit the bbj, didnt excite anyone. They were right. It had no impact on drawing in players. That's why they raised it to 300k but it didnt help much. The problem is having a bbj that only hits about twice a year on average cant sustain any excitement.

I think having all the money going to promos is better.

Funny that they found the one place even easier to miss than the last location to move the poker room to. Nice for a poker player not to have to walk through all the smoke/dregs of society on the way there.

Glad the paid parking experiment failed. Hopefully Vegas comes to the same conclusion.

Also didn't need a players card to play. Thought I read that I did in this thread. That was good too.

In theory, it would be a good thing. In practice, they just can't help but ****ing the players over. They decided it would be a great idea to give the hourly promo to time rake games when they dont contribute to the pool.

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They do the time rake hourly when I'm in Texas for a month obv

I had no idea but just checked Bravo. Unless it's a typo, this is a horrific decision. Not that the PLO games are taking a ton from the pool but it sends a horrific message.

horrible decision to let games that don't contribute pull from it.

i remember about 10 years ago borgata's bad beat jackpot got up to almost a million... everyone moved down to 1-2 because 2-5 and higher is timed... so they changed 2-5 to have a jackpot drop (i don't remember if they switched it to a rake game temporily or just started pulling a dollar out of the pot and still charged time).

What games are time raked? 2-5 PLO and 5-10NL and higher?

Yes. 5-5 PLO and 5-10 NL. Also the 20-40 mixed game, but that hasnt run in a while.

2-2 PLOand all the limit O8 games are raked each hand.

My 1st session since last week and now see they are no flop no drop as of today. Another solid recent change.

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If that's new policy and not a dealer going out of bounds, that's HUGE news.

YEP. Multiple dealers talking about it and definitely confirmed. Also was just told rounding on 6's not 5's now.

We might need to have some new arguments in the Winrate thread now.. 🤣

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I guess the hard rock realizes no one folds so why not?!

I already like this new poker room manager more than the last two... No flop no drop, rounding to 6 and using the promo money for actual good promos... Hope they keep it up!