I have no delusions about winning the jackpot, but I have visions of playing against a crowd of people who do.

Apologies if this question already has been asked and answered, but I keep up with this thread and couldn't find it in this thread or other threads using the search function.

How long does it usually take for poker play to show up on your Total Rewards account?

I played over three hours of 2/4 LHE (very balla, I know) from approximately 9:00p on New Year's Day to about midnight on January 2nd and they haven't showed up in my account as of right now.

I was wary of this situation because the credits didn't show the last time I played there either so I specifically asked the floor who clocked me out how much time I had logged and he said "about three hours."

Any experience with this issue, both the time it takes for the rewards to show and how you can remedy the situation if they don't show, would be appreciated. Thanks!

I thought it was 72 hours, but I could be wrong. If it's not there by tomorrow, I would give customer service a call.

Whatever the answer is, it's not fast enough. I guess I didn't take that into account towards the end of the year. I finished the year with 3990 tier points -- 10 points short of platinum! If only I played a half hour longer on an earlier day instead of thinking my play on 12/31 would put me over, I'd have it. The people at the Total Rewards desk were not sympathetic at all ("we can only go by what's in the computer") and apparently when the points eventually show up, they count for the day they show up, not the day they were actually earned.

I was so pissed and tried talking to every manager and 800 number I could, but they always said you have to see the Total Rewards desk. What a crappy system! You would think in the interest of customer satisfaction they would understand what happened and manually override it to give me the platinum, but no dice. Great customer service.

Is the 100K+ BBJ at Showboat or Harrahs?

$100k BBJ is at Showboat

i think we are at about 118k

Can anyone tell me if Showboat spreads Omaha, and, if so, what the limits are? I'm hoping for 1/2 PLO or 2/5 PLO.

I haven't played there in quite some time, and I'm heading down Fri. night with my girl and her family.

Thanks.

we try to get a game often but lately the regs that play it havent been around. Put ur name on the list and ask the supervisors to call the game on the mic to see if there is interest a few times....if that doesnt work try borgata

love the big jackpot.

earlier this week at the showboat:

i'm sitting in the cutoff with a full stack and a pair of nines. I make it $12 to to go. The shortstacked girl on the button goes all in for $25. Middle Eastern dude on the big blind who has limped or cold-called EVERY SINGLE HAND since I sat down two orbits ago thinks for about 3 seconds then calls. He has another $100 behind. action is back on me, and after a moment's thought, i push my stack into the middle, figuring that i'm likely flipping against the shortstack and the BB's call is dead money. to my surprise and horror, the BB actually tanks.

Finally he says "i can't fold a jackpot hand", puts in the rest of his money and turns up 55. The girl turns up JJ and none of us hit.

The Middle Eastern dude laughs it off, rebuys and muses that it was worth $100 to have a chance at $100k.

I vocally and vehemently agreed with him.

best part is i know who had 55 by this description of how he plays

Nice story. It brings up a question though. What are the odds of quads over quads with 3 ppl holding pocket pairs?

Can one of the math heads let us know how big the jackpot must be to make stacking off with any pocket pair +EV (if you believe your opponent has a bigger pair, of course)?

I might be at the Showboat during the inauguration because there's not a snowball's shot in hell that I would be caught in DC at that time. Besides, I think it's obvious that the proper way to honor the first openly poker-playing president since Johnson and Nixon is to play poker.

I also wanted to update everyone on this issue and thank you for your responses. The credits still have not shown in my account. When I contacted the Showboat, the customer service representative told me that not only could she not help me, but that the Total Rewards desk at the Showboat cannot be reached by telephone AND there is no overarching Total Rewards customer service department that can be reached by telephone. She also told me that my only option was to visit the Total Rewards desk at the Showboat in person.

I am astonished and completely taken aback by the lack of customer service regarding Total Rewards issues; it's in stark contrast with the way I have been treated as a valued customer at the Showboat when I am there in person. Lucky for me we're only talking about three or four hours of 2/4 LHE as opposed to a weekend of $100 bet blackjack.

Rod and Mike, not sure if any of this stuff affects you in the poker room (i.e., whether you have heard a lot of complaints and you think it might be affecting your customer base), but if you think it has affected the room at all I would greatly appreciate you running it up the totem pole to see if there's some way you can get some kind of customer service going relating to Total Rewards. Thanks again for all your work in this thread and at the tables.

i haven't done the actual exact math, but a quick in my head estimate suggests that (for two players with pockets pairs) the odds of quads over quads by the river should be around 150,000 to 1 against. so, if you're playing with a full $300 stack, then you can stack off with any pair profitably preflop if the BBJ is over $90 million (since the loser gets half).

also, note that it doesn't matter in this case what your opponent has since stacking off with a pocket pair is already +EV (or neutral EV) if your opponent has anything but a higher pocket pair.

since my friend was only risking $100 to win $175 (with 16% equity, meaning that he was only really risking ~$56 of equity with his call), and since he had two chances for quads over quads instead of one, he only would have needed the Showboat BBJ to be in the neighbourhood of $8.4 million dollars for his call to be correct.

give it another couple of weeks.

^^^ awesome

When is the next Saturday tournament like the one run in September? $250 total, 20k guaranteed to first place?

Haven't heard anything about a new big showboat tourny but they do run basically the same tournament every Friday at Borgata.

This got me thinking. What if two people had a qualifying bad beat hand at the same time? Example:

Player 1: 22
Player 2: 33
Player 3: 45

Board: 2233A

Players 1 and 2 both have quads but lose to a straight flush. It could happen. You would think that somewhere in the country at some time, this would have already happened. Do the two losers split the biggest portion of the BBJ, which would give them the same as the winner? If it's not spelled out in the rules, I could see a big fight over it, especially if the BBJ was huge.

In the borgata bbj thread this was discussed. If the rules are the same: quad two's only gets a regular table share. Quad threes gets the losers share and the straight flush gets the winners share. A dealer said he's seen it happen twice.

Bump this. I love this game, but usually only play during the week.

Then the guy with the quad 2's gets the ultimate bad beat. His quad get cracked and gets only as much as anyone else at the table. At least he has a good story.

For the comp, the new system sucks unless you can swipe players in and out at the table. You were clearly swiped out by accident because someone new was swiped into your seat. It happens all the time now. I don't have any ideas as to how to fix this other than to go back to the old system.

Oh yea if we were better staffed the system would work fine because it would be 1 persons job to focus on seating players and swiping people in and out. Thats a pipe dream these days though, unless you guys bitch and complain to management enough! wink wink.

The last time I was at Harrah's, they had a dedicated person working the computer, clocking seats in and out. It looked like a mess, but it seemed to work.

Weren't the table setups for the new comp system supposted to be added in February or March.

I was down last saturday and swiped in and out and got no comps...called the poker room on Thursday and Alan told me he would take care of it but still nothing...what's my play here Rod?

Harrahs budget is about 10x ours so we "can't" afford one of those people right now, we are hoping for one in the spring.

I will talk to my boss tonight.