I was down there on Thursday and Friday, must say i always enjoy my self there. After 7pm Friday the place was pretty much dead but the games were not to bad. I like the fact that the dealers are very quick and we get to see alot of hands. Was at ballys as well i do like the room and tons of action but i hate buying in at the table and then coloring you up when you leave.

3/6 LHE goes most Fri and Sat definately...usually 2 - 3 tables at least....Actually had a Full Kill going the other day also....NICE!

Don't know the exact situation here, but I do know that Jaclyn is one of the best floors working in AC...

Can someone answer me this question, someone that deals/works in the pokerroom at showboat, why are there some big key levels missing in the tournaments?? Just curious I know you guys want it to not last all night but it leaves no poker after the 2nd break...

we've never had the 500/1000 or 5000/100000 levels, mostly because we dont have antes, so skipping those levels makes up for the no ante. the tournaments run long as it is, if we added those two levels in, theyd be miserably long

Thought make my first post a praise of the Showboat. I play mostly tournies throughout the city and always find myself going back to here. The staff, tourney schedule, drink service and dealers are all great. With only a few exceptions, the "regulars" tend to be nice company as well.

Although the Trop is the most profittable and you just can't match the Borgata, the Showboat is quickly getting a reputation for being AC's "Cheers".

Wish they would fix the climate control though...

It really seems like everyone came out this weekend. Glad you liked it see you guys again soon. Don't forget about the 75K guarantee that is coming up. It is on Saturday September 13th and you can register for it now I believe. I don't have all the details, I am hoping it will be a 2 day event and the structure would be slightly better than last time, but as soon as I can talk to the right people I will post all the information on it up here.

anyone here play in the 7PM tourn on Sunday night? I got knocked out early, before the first break. In the first round, I lost half my stack when my AK ran into QQ. I was card dead after that and never recovered.

rod.. would love to see the structure for the 9/13 tournament. I haven't gotten to play in any of the past big tournaments, but am hoping I can make it to this one. Is the buy-in the same as the last one ($250 I believe?) Looking forward to seeing the structure.

i know for sure that it is the same 250$.

great, thanks!

Flippament satellites?

of course haha...same $30 flips. GL Rob

Yep, I was there from around noon until about 5:30 p.m., when I had to catch my bus back to Reading, PA. I looked for both you and Rod, but did not see either of you. I had a couple "Mike's" dealing at my table during my session, but neither of them matched your description.

When I arrived at noon, there was only one one $1-2 NL cash game running due to the 11 a.m. tourney. I had to wait about half an hour for a new $1-2 table to open, and I was fine with that. Most of my experience is $2-4 and $3-6 limit, so I am still not real comfortable playing NL.

I bought in for $140 and the second hand I picked up KK in the small blind. I raised to $12 and got four callers (I still don't don't bet enough to push people out at $1-2). The flop came K, 2, 3 with two spades. I bet $40 on the flop and had one caller. Another 2 came on the turn, giving me a boat. The caller in late position had $18 left, so I bet $18. He called and I showed my full house. Villain showed ace high (not even a flush or straight draw). Everyone at the table just looked at each other with a "WTF" expression.

After that, I began leaking chips and missing most of my flops. My worst hand came when I flopped a set of 8s. I bet my set the whole way (obviously not enough), but got sucked out on by a guy chasing an OESD and catching on the river. I bet $40 on the river and was raised to $100. I folded my set face up, and he showed me the straight.

About two hours into my session, we had a young kid that couldn't have been more than 21-22 come to our table and the table dynamic really changed. He began open raising 90 percent of the hands anywhere from $15-40. On some of the hands, he was raising $20+ without looking at his cards. There were hands in which he raised $20-25 pre-flop, then announced he was all-in before the flop.

There was a board with four hearts on the board and the kid bet $160 on the river. Opposing player in the hand folded the second nuts face up. Kid then showed the 6 high bluff. At least four times, I saw the kid bet $50-100 on the river, then muck as soon as he was called. We had an older lady at our table and she called the kid an idiot after one of his $24 raises without looking. He told her that he isn't an idiot; he just has a gambling problem. He then said that he either wins big or goes broke whenever he plays. He said that there isn't any fun in trying to grind out $100-200. The kid wasn't even drinking alcohol while he was playing; he kept ordering pineapple juice.

I called some of those big-pre-flop raises with pocket pairs to try and flop a set, but never really caught him for any kind of major pot.

Every time the kid would win a pot, he would tell the losing player that "Believe me, I need the money more than anyone here." After the kid was at our table for about 45 minutes, the guy next to me leaned over and said, "Did he just go through about $600 since he sat down?"

I decided to play my button before leaving to catch my bus back home and picked up QQ on the button. There were four limpers in front, so I raised to $15. Small blind called and the big blind came over the top for $83 more. Action folded back around to me and I thought about it for about a minute. The big blind had been at the table my entire session and I respected his raises because he had shown all day that he had the goods when he bet or raised.

I am usually not a good enough player to fold QQ, but I was pretty sure I was running into either aces or kings. I folded the queens and told him after the hand what I had. He told me it was a bad fold, but I still don't think it was.

Anyway, I cashed out $154, so I took my $14 profit and I was happy. Even it the last hand was a bad fold, I didn't want to put most of my stack at risk when I was pretty sure I was way behind.

One of things that I liked was that there was a hand that came J J 10. A player in early postion bet and another player thought about the call for a while before showing the bettor what he was folding. The dealer then told the folding player, "I don't what you just showed him, but you have to show everyone." The folding player then showed the table KQ. I have only ever seen a dealer call out a player on SOSA a handful of times in Atlantic City.

One of the things that was kind of weird was that when I arrived, there was a list for $10-20 LHE with one name on it. There wasn't even a list for $5-10 LHE, but someone thought $10-20 might go? I really do hope in the future that the Showboat can get a regular $5-10 LHE game going. I am much more comfortable playing LHE, but want to play a little bigger than $2-4 or $3-6.

Bored500, I heard a few people mention that they were from Reading. I mentioned every time that I went to Moravian College so if you remember I kid saying that at the table than that was me.

Nope, Rod. No one menioned Moravian. I have a business administration degree from Kutztown. I did keep my eye out for you every time a new dealer sat in the box or walked past, but I did not see your name. I am actually about 15 minutes outside of Reading, in a small town called Fleetwood, but I figured no one would know where Fleetwood is.

Better too cool than too hot in my book...also I think its a big scam to get people to buy sweatshirts at the house of blues store right outside the poker room...

For the past 3 "big" tourneys...the blind structure has been:

25 minute blinds

25/50
50/100
100/200
100/200 25 ante
etc....

I also would love to see 2 day tourney....longer blinds (40 minutes) and bigger starting stack (20K) ??????

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEE EE !!!!!!

Yes, but do they play the 500/1000 level in the big tourney? Enquiring minds wanna know...

Not that I'll be able to make that one anyhow...need time to rebuild bankroll and good graces of boss and wife and etc, perhaps one in the Spring.

During the weekend there are usually a couple of 3/6 LHE going, last weekend they had a 3/6 with Full kill....what you might want to do:

when you get to the room, start the 5/10 LHE list with your name, then go sit at a 3/6 and see if you can stir up interest at that table to increase it to 5/10 LHE....if several people at the table like the idea, they can put their names on the 5/10 LHE list....

Couple of things will happen, either they'll raise the stakes at the table you're at and move anyone who doesn't want to move up can be moved to the other 3/6 table, or they will open up a new 5/10 LHE table....

One thing, you should be willing to start the table short handed....5 or so players....if you insist on a full or mostly full table, it will be hard to start, but once its going, it will get full....

This is how we got the 5/5 NLHE game going....several people at a 2/5 wanted to get a higher min/max buy-in and get whites out of play (can't stand the old $17 bet at a 2/5 game)....

The room said they couldn't increase the limits on a 2/5 table, but if we changed the game they would get approval for the higher min/max buyins....

viola...a new game was born!!!!!!!!!

My name isn't Rod though, I am one of the Mikes. Yea I don't even know where Fleetwood is and I lived in the LV for 4 years haha.

Here is the structure from the last tournament (7/12/08)...unless they change to a two day tournament (which I would love, but doubt will happen), I would suspect the structure will stay the same....

as you can see they have two levels of 500/1000 (one with 100 ante and one with 200 ante....

The only sick jump is that after the second 500/1000 it jumps to 1k/2k...this seems a bit much...maybe I'll lobby for a 800/1600 round in there before it jumps to 1/2.

1- 25/50
2- 50/100
3- 100/200
break
4 100/200 25 ante
5 200/400 50 ante
6 300/600 75 ante
break race off green
7 400/800 100 ante
8 500/1000 100 ante
9 500/1000 200 ante
break
10 1k/2k 300 ante
11 1.5k/3k 400 ante
12 2k/4k 500 ante
race off black/dinner break (1 HOUR)
13 3k/6k 500 ante
14 4k/8k 1k ante
15 5k/10k 1k ante
Break race off purple
16 8k/16k 2k ante
17 10k/20k 3k ante
18 15k/30k 5k ante
break race of orange
19 20k/40k 5k ante
20 By Director, which I think will have to happen.

Thanks to xxRod17xx...I copied the structure from an earlier post on this thread.

yea, I would hope that it was going to change a bit we will see though.

The easiest change would be to go to 15K in chips...keep the blind structure, but increase the chips....this would push off the inevitable everyone under an M of 10 point a few levels.

As currently configured the tourney seems to run till about 10pm...increasing the starting stack to 15K would probably add a couple of hours...

I know the players would be ok with that...don't know if kelly would survive however.

its a long couple of days for the floor staff.....

They have long days everyday, but for the good of the room I think they wouldnt mind dealing with it from time to time.

I Live in Pottstown pretty damn close to fleetwood..