Should be "interesting". Not sure that I want to check it out.

So what would a wait list time look like for someone on a Friday night. Also how do the games seem lately there?

The wait list is a lot better than it was during the first couple of weeks the room was open. Last night around 8pm, there was maybe at most 10 waiting on the 3-6 limit list (can't really remember). There were a lot on the 1-2 nl list but not so long that the names had to be written on a yellow notepad. The 2-5 nl list was roughly half of the 1-2 list. I can't recall the 5-10 nl and 5-10 stud lists though.

Arrived at 11 am on Sunday. Plenty of empty tables, but no dealers! About 9 people on 1/2 list. Dealers arrive at 12 noon. Games don't get started until 12:20 WTF?

Did anyone hear details of armed robbery there on Tuesday?

This happens only a couple weeks after an employee was mugged in the parking lot smh

Agents hired by the CT casinos /s.

From Ch. 10
An armed robbery took place at Twin River Casino Tuesday night, police told NBC 10 News.
According to authorities, Rhode Island State Police and Lincoln police are investigating the incident, which occurred in the north parking lot around 9:30 p.m.
Police said a woman with a gun was accused of approaching a man and trying to steal his wallet, but she took off when the man reached for the gun.
The woman then got into the passenger side of a red sedan and fled the scene.
Police said the suspect is still at large.
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Stay alert in the parking lot or valet park. I rarely see any security in the parking lots. It seems like there's a handful of robbery attempts every year.

Yesterday about 1:00PM. 2/5 NL has 10 names on the list, all other lists are small.
They have 2 maybe 3 deadspreads at this time.
They call a 2/5NL, and 3 people show up.
The 3 people want to play and agree to start the game short.
Floor comes over says sorry I need 6 to start the game per my boss.

I've seen that before at other casinos with the same threshold of players. The likelihood of the game breaking right away is v high. Fwiw I do not agree with poker rooms doing this.

Every year??? There has been at least one parking lot robbery virtually every weekend since December. They have done a good job keeping many of things out of the news for the most part.

There is a serious safety issue at Twin River, which is a real shame since the town of Lincoln itself is really a nice and generally safe town.

Just in the last month or so, they've been in the news for the wrong reasons several times. Off the top of my head, they've had tire slashings, a mugging inside at a blackjack table, an employee mugging in their lot, and an attempted armed robbery 2 days ago. These are just the ones that happened recently!

There really is no reason for Twin to be this unsafe. They are literally located between the State Police barracks AND the Lincoln Police station. How they don't have a constant police presence in those parking lots is beyond me.

This is a major problem and goes beyond any of the minor issues they have inside their casino. They need to fix the safety issue IMMEDIATELY if they don't want a mass exodous of players (poker and otherwise) going somewhere else.

- Magic Man

Lincoln is fine it is some of the surrounding towns such as Pawtucket and Central Falls that are riddled with drugs and crime. Of course bad areas of Providence are less than 10 minutes away so even a rimless '98 Chevy with a hanging muffler can make it there.



It isn't really between because.......the State Police barracks are LITERALLY across the street from the Twin River property!!

The wait times for 1-2 NL at Twin River are unbearable. It is a reflection of the games. Every time I go there I wait about 90 minutes, and the list moves very slowly. I think this is because the games are so tight. People bust very slowly. So many limpers and slow dealers, slow the games down. As a result, the casual player is not willing to wait over an hour to get on a table.

I have gone about 5 times since it has opened, so I have probably waited for over 6 hours. Personally I have not spent dime on slots/table games during that wait time. I have only spent $6 on some soft tacos in my 6 hours waiting. Are people playing other games while waiting for poker?

Some video blackjack if the wait looks really long

I used my points to buy some pasta at Sbarro's but turns out I only had 2 points on my card.

Are you crazy? I have played 1/2 a handful of times while waiting for 2/5 and have never seen such action packed games. Last time I played there was a $700 in a limped pot and the bettor got 3 streets from 2 people with A7 on a 567QQ board. I was irked because I threw away 89 preflop

Not for nothing, but the other night when it snowed I was walking to my car in south lot about 4AM and there were a bunch of people hanging out in the lot. I brushed my car off pretty quickly and took off, after recent events I might just start valet parking.

As for the long wait, I can't comment on the day games.. But at night there is usually no list after 10pm and the 1/2 game plays great.

Question for you guys that play a lot, have you gotten the feel that there is a decent amount of bankroll sharing going on?

I went there for the first time last night (Tuesday) at 7pm and overall I had a good time.

Pros:
-Half the commute. It's not a big deal to come here on a weekday after work.
-I was 2nd in line for 1/2 NL, only waited about 15 mins.
-Tables, chairs, legroom, cards, chips are all nice. No complaints about the equipment.
-Dealers knew what they were doing for the most part. I played 5 hours and none of the dealers made any major mistakes. One dealer almost got the winner wrong a couple times, but corrected himself before pushing the pot to the wrong person. Another dealer didn't know what to do when there were dead blinds. Another dealer would forget that the third $1 has to go in the pot when an absent player comes back (when they have ot pay SB+BB).
-Plenty of bad players. One guy went all in nearly every hand without looking at his cards. Ace high won a lot of juicy pots, if only I had anything worth playing against these guys...
-I was considering valet parking based on the reports of crime on here, but I never felt unsafe walking back to my car at midnight. There were plenty of people entering/leaving the casino from the parking lot when I left.

Cons:
-Hands are SLOW. At one point everyone at my table looked like a zombie. This is what happens when tips are shared, the dealers have no incentive to work hard/fast (yay socialism!!). I kept saying "One more round" and it took a painfully long time for the button to come back around. Maybe it was just my table, but there was never a chop and the players would "Hollywood" a lot. I could have left to take a dump and came back and not missed a hand. When the board is QJT9X with 4 spades and the guy goes all in on the river against your red aces, just fold man. You know you're beat, the whole table knows you're beat, there is no need to make your decision dramatic and drawn out for 5 minutes.
-It's weird that you have to buy your chips at the cashier first.
-Have to remember to track down floor person with your player's card before you leave.
-Long wait for drinks. Need more waitresses.
-No frozen drinks. I ordered a chocolate shake 'cause that's what I get at Foxwoods/Mohegan all the time, the waitress looked at me like I had 2 heads.

I live 10 mins away from the casino i went and played for the first time a juicy Sunday morning 1/2 game. Alcohol is super expensive. The drink lady disapears for hours and most of the dealers are slow but plenty of rec players on 1/2 not a bunch of regs like the 1/2 at foxwoods.

Been playing 2/5 and 5/10 there semi-regularly for a few months. The floor is slow. What's ****ty is that there can be an open seat in the only 5/10 game they have going and the floor doesn't call anyone from the list so it can be like 15 minutes before someone even notices. I always try to get asses in the seats whether they are next on the list or not. The dealers don't care either.

While the 2/5 games are great, I feel this way when I play during the daytime.

This is all true, but I look at 'hollywooding' as the cost of doing business with bad/inexperienced players. I don't get mad when they take forever, because half of them legit have no idea what they are supposed to do in spots that are easy decisions for more seasoned players.

I do get mad when someone slowrolls the obvious winner after they've been called. Esp. In a time game But again, it's the cost of doing business with worse players.

At FW, the player pool is generally fast and classy, but the room is also hell of alot harder.

The dealers have gotten much better at Twin, and they look like superstars compared to new batch of 30 that just got dropped into all the games at FW. At least Twin staff keep the inexperienced dealers away from the bigger games, something FW doesn't do. .

I'm hoping dealers get to also keep their own tips soon as that will improve overall quality of the room greatly. But as is, dealing has been OK.

Twin floor has gotten much better overall. Still some that I can't stand and who honestly don't deserve a job there, but they are in the minority. The majority are now respectful towards players and have a general understanding of what their job entails.

Safety still a big issue there, but I just rent an armored truck and pull right up!

Just kidding. Actually I park as close as possible and run for my life. The action is worth the risk.

This room has grown on me despite its many faults. I never expect it to become a world class room and it isn't trying to be. If the action remains good (it's currently great), then I can live with all the minor faults. I just have to live to and from the parking lot.

- Magic Man

Has anyone played on a Monday/Tuesday morning or afternoon? Just wondering if there is any 1/2 NL action.

They had tables going this past monday. Like 5 or 6 1-2 tables at 11am

Probably going to head over for the first time tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully there is some action, have no clue what to expect.

There will be action. The problem with the room has never been no games running, the problem (one of them) has been 2-3 hour wait times with the room full.