I hear that there will be MTT beginning in February. No info on entry fees. Anyone have more information

Driving down from North NJ, 287 South to 78 West, does anyone know if there is a lot of traffic if I were to leave around 5PM? I think 287 south is OK (not sure), but I have no idea what rush hour traffic is like on 78 West.

going west on a weekday on 78 the traffic is usually heavy but moving especially west of 287. There are exceptions of course (bad weather, wrecks, etc.) but i've made that trip many times and usually it's only about hour max to the Pa/NJ border (Easton) from that point.

Long waits most of yesterday afternoon, by 4 or so there was open seating across the board, my 1/2 table actually broke and a new 3/6LHE game started about an hour after. Also the 5/10NL game started in the afternoon.

Guessing football season has everyone staying home on Sundays now.

Maybe - Eagles didn't play yesterday but Dallas - Giants and Steelers-Pats were both late games. Weather was very nice as well. Arrived at 6 pm for 1-2 left at 3am - surprising a wide variety of skill levels all night long.

Depends also on road glare this time of year. Try to leave early.. and go to maps.google.com and hit the "traffic" button. Should show you what it's like.

Thanks for the tips! And I noticed that strange road glare heading out there once, shouldn't be an issue today though.

It just got hit!! qaud 10s vs qaud 4s

Yea? What was it at - $254k or so?

While I'm bummed I wasn't there, maybe now the endless talk about BBJ eligible hands before, during and after every hand will stop, for a while at least.

Yes Mike hopefully. Also hopefully everytime a new dealer comes to the table I don't have to hear, "Let's go, insert dealers name here, deal us the bad beat hand". That gets really annoying also.

Hey you have to love playing against those guys!! They will call any bet with pocket 2s hoping to hit the BBJ. It should reset to a big number, 30% of BBJ drop goes to start next pot.

FWIW the BBJ was at $99k last night, thanks to Dave's foresight into building the next one. Everyone seemed to be in good moods and I played for a while with a guy who was at the table, but not involved with the hand.

I really wish those who complained about waits would come on a weeknight, two and then 3 tables were empty and my 1/2 game was short handed for a while. Only a 1-4 person wait for 3/6LHE all night till I left after 10pm.

Expansion in a month will, without a doubt help peak poker times, provided there are enough dealers / floor to run them, although Sunday a few dealers called out sick and mid-afternoon the 1/2 wait was 40+ with two tables closed.

Sit & Go's would add to the fun, but I'm also wondering how they will affect the regulars, or if it could bring in more action. Guess we'll find out in a month.

I got there about 7PM last night and yes it did reset pretty high....99K.

@Mike Panic... We must have basically been typing our posts at the same time...Your post wasn't there when I started mine. lol

I think the new tables will knock the wait times down on the weekend so a casual railbird might sit for a few hours if there is open seating vs. a 1 hr wait. I'm sure some larger limit and NL games will go more often. I'm not sure management has visions of being the Parx poker room- there just isn't the population density to support that size room.

Some of these new dealers are REALLY bad. I think I might start taking longer breaks during some of their shifts at my table.

I understand they're incredibly slow until they get more confident, but they are making some rookie mistakes when mucking hands, raking pots, dealing cards, controlling the action, etc.

This hand came up while I was playing tonight.

There was about $100 in the pot when he dealt the turn card. Player A bet $50, Player B called, Player C shoved for $64, Player D was all in with $51. A & B both called the difference ($14 each) so the side should have been 3 x $13 = $39. He just shoved money around and the side pot had about $125 in it.

On a side note, has anyone played with the short, middle aged guy who is legally blind. I sat next to him for 8 hours Friday night. He's quite a character.

Thats a shame. I have poker dealing experience, applied here, and have not heard back. I assumed they just did not need anyone.

Miserable session, but I can give an unbiased POV of what it's like. The drive is 1 mirrion times better than AC. My first table there was an asian maniac, prob in his 30's with about $700ish in front of him, total timebomb. One hand someone opens to $12, another guy calls. He shoves, guy who opened insta calls his last $150 with AA. maniac had Ax. Pretty card dead, tried to target him and got in a few situations, might've made a bad fold one hand when he check raised me all in on turn. Seemed fishy but w.e figured i'd pick him off in a better spot.

Anyways i take a dinner break and go to a different table. The 1-2 at this point is so slow i wanna gauge out my own eyes with a plastic spoon. Ohh right, this is why i refuse to play 1-2 anymore. The next notable thing that happened. We're in a multiway pot i play K9 on button, flop 789, 2 diamonds. BB leads out for $6, other guy makes it $15 instantly. 2 ppl call behind me and i call as well just to see how things develop/odds/blah blah. back around to BB who makes a speech and shakely throws in the rest of his money. $203 more. Back to the guy who makes it $15, THINKS FOREVER AND FOLDS JT. BB had 6T for 2nd nuts. JT guy goes 'Well, i didn't want a flush to get there. Also, He coudl've had a set and caught his full boat! Forget about it!'.
R u ******** me???. Raise your hand if you dont like money. That game tilted me so hard i refuse to play 1-2 there ever again. I'm going back with $750 min. and taking my shot at 2-5. Anyone know how the 2-5 plays out compared to 1-2. Speed wise i hope its better? Avg preflop raise? Competency of players?
Anyway, i look forward to 2-5 there and hopefully can make this my new grind. Who knows, maybe this place might turn out to be a hidden gem. After that robbery gone wrong in manhattan 3 years ago i refuse to play in the city ever again, this looks like the next best thing.

Overall, unless you have nerves of steel and can dumb down to these ppl's level, i consider the 1-2 there ungrindable/not worth the effort.

Granted I havent played 1/2 in about 5 years, but why would you mock a player base, that with your bank roll, is literally your bread and butter in being able to BUILD your bankroll?

Because it's not worth my effort and it's tilting how slow the players act. 10 hands in a half hour? No thx. The dealers are too scared to take control of the game. Sure, if i was so desperate that i didn't have a job and lived closer then i'd force myself to grind up from this game to 2-5 but i'd rather wait 2 weeks and go back at it now that i know what i'm getting myself into. Feel free to grab an open seat and experience the Sands 1-2 poker for yourself.

OBV should move up to where they respect his raises and skillz

2-5 average preflop raise $50. Good luck

You have a stone cold read on a fish and you go on tilt? Maybe you need to raise your hand! The 2-5 players will own you in no time.

Dude thats the way 1/2nl is everywhere. A good player should be able to absolutely crush that game no problems.

i have not found this to be true when I play 2-5. I find many raises to be $25-$30, some just $15 or $20. I saw a few to $40 but that's it... this is usually after 1-2 limpers.

If there are 5 limpers, then you might see a pop to $50.