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Originally Posted by pocket300
The entire casino has declined overall in the last few years, not just the poker room. I play here regularly just because it’s the closest option to where I live in NJ. But I think I may start taking the extra few minutes drive to parx or even borgata. During the week it’s like going to home game. The “omc” regulars pretty much run the room. Just this Tuesday, I’m waiting for a new game to open about 10am, they call 9 names from the list, 5 of the older guys (who are all regulars) come over and I hear the one guy say “we are waiting for another table to open so we can all play together” WTF?!?!? Just stay home and play with no rake if that’s the case.
As for the rest of the casino, it’s filled with the most degenerate annoying people. The homeless bums hanging around begging for money, the non gamblers sleeping in the food court area. Security doesn’t give a damn. I’ve never seen more people standing over your shoulder at a table game then I have at this place, and when you ask the pit boss or dealer to ask them to sit down and play or walk away, they don’t say a word.
I've been playing here regularly since it opened with 12 tables, and yes we used to get poker rates for hotels which was at least a 30 dollar discount, now we get nothing but I still get 5 or 10 dollar free plays every day with some cash outs of over 30 dollars so that all goes towards the rakeback and it's on top of the 70 cents we make an hour.
The people hanging around there all day take the buses from NYC (not PABT) only to sell their vouchers and hang around till it's time to leave. The NYT did a story about them a few years ago. I've also seen one of them, a short elderly fat asian laday red-handed grab someone's ticket that they just printed out from a machine. They drew my attention while I was walking right bye them when the lady was saying "give that back to me, give it back" while having a tug of war with the ticket. I got it back for the lady then alerted the closest security guard I could find who was near the cage. He was holding an empty birdcage while I was pointing her out to him, but he claimed he couldn't leave his spot and radioed his dispatcher only to watch her run away. He didn't seem too surprised by it either, the look on his face looked like he was saying "oh no not another one".
With regards to letting players watch low limit table games, they're not gonna chase people away because they want the players to watch then eventually come in and play (I was a casino manager on a boat, so that's just coming from their perspective).
The 1/2 regs that play in the morning are just there to pass their time and have fun while playing together but you don't have to sit in a game that you don't like, just go on the list for a new game or ask for a transfer to another one, they're good about table changes which is pretty much the only reason I play there, the only other room close to me has a 2/5 must move so I'd rather not have to drive an hour only to be stuck in a horrible game.
Today in the 2/5 game a player was going all in almost every other hand for about 5 to 6 hundred, half the times it was a blind all in pre, and in another game people were extremely loose passive with a lot of 35 dollar opens going 5 or 6 ways but I've sat in my share of tight horrible 2/5 games over the past week but I always transfer right out of them.
I think their biggest mistake when they re-opened was not going to 1/3 like Borgata and Parx did and keeping it at 1/2 just to satisfy the aforementioned players. I think a 1/3 with a 500 dollar max and a raked 2/5 game for 1500 would have drawn in a lot more people that are instead going to Parx for a their 1/3 game.