AC Trip This Weekend

[Mike Gallo]

Where are the best 1/2 NL games? Caesars has the best, Borg is a nicer room?

Not really. Just because of a few posters claim that Caesar's spreads games make it that way.

Where can I park for free in AC?

You will need a players card to park for free at the Showboat. Go to the Showboat walk through to the Taj Mahal poker room and ask someone to direct you to the poker room luncheonette. Order the NY steak sandwich with sauteed onions.

When you leave the Showboat ask for a transfer slip and travel to the Borgata.

Where are the best tournaments Thurs/Fri/Sat? I'd like a good structure obviously, but low buy ins (definitely less than $500, less than 300 would be good...)

The Hilton has a decent tournament Friday nights at 10:00. $40+$10 players start with 15k in tournament chips. Levels last 20 minutes and the blinds start at T25-T50. The blinds increase pretty rapidly, antes kick in after the third level.

The Showboat has a good tournament as well.

[max1000000]

I like Borgota and Taj tourneys, followed Hilton and Showboat. They say Showboat has the best tourneys, but I have never gotten comfortable there. I really don't like starting 11 handed and there seems to be disputes at the color ups most times. I gave the Showboat another chance last week and busted early (my fault not their's), so I walked over to Taj to play some 1-2 and saw that they had a tourney starting at 12:15 PM with a decent looking structure, so I played. This was my first Taj tourney in a long time. It was very well run and the dealers and floors knew what they were doing. I didn't see anything out of line with the structure like I had read in the past. Other than the grimy chips, it was a great tourney. I will definatly play their tourneys again.

I would not recommend any tourneys or S&G's at Wild Wild West. The dealers know a little about poker, but very little. The players constantly have to tell them how to make change. A side pot usually requires help from the floor, who seems to feel it's necessary to hover behind the dealers in case they screw something up. They'll pull in bets before the round is complete, flash cards, etc. They also play with eleven at the table. The S&G structure makes it a push fest after about the third level. WWW is where I played (and won) my first tourney, but I doubt I'll bother with them any more unless things change. If you want to play S&G, Borgata is the place.

A (little outdated) list of AC tourneys is available here: http://www.acpokerguide.com/dailytournaments.htm

The Hilton $25 Sunday 7 PM toruney is the lowest buy in in town. The play is decent, dealers and floor are competant and the room is nice. It's a little fishy at first but there are enough chips that it's not an all out push fest, even with the fast structure. It is at 7, NOT 9 PM.

[PokerDonkey27]

[Quote] The Hilton $25 Sunday 7 PM toruney is the lowest buy in in town. The play is decent, dealers and floor are competant and the room is nice. It's a little fishy at first but there are enough chips that it's not an all out push fest, even with the fast structure. It is at 7, NOT 9 PM.

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Is this still a double add-on tournament? Format changed on the Hilton tournaments within the last month.

[PokerDonkey27]

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Where can I park for free in AC?

You will need a players card to park for free at the Showboat. Go to the Showboat walk through to the Taj Mahal poker room and ask someone to direct you to the poker room luncheonette. Order the NY steak sandwich with sauteed onions.

When you leave the Showboat ask for a transfer slip and travel to the Borgata.


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You "pay" when you enter the Showboat parking garage, so you have to ask for a receipt at that point. Also, it depends on who is working the booth upon entry when you park at Showboat. Technically, they are not supposted to give a receipt, as since you did not pay, you are not entitled to a transfer. Some employees ignore this rule, like I said, it is all about who you get working.

[chillrob]

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Where can I park for free in AC?

You will need a players card to park for free at the Showboat. Go to the Showboat walk through to the Taj Mahal poker room and ask someone to direct you to the poker room luncheonette. Order the NY steak sandwich with sauteed onions.

When you leave the Showboat ask for a transfer slip and travel to the Borgata.


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You "pay" when you enter the Showboat parking garage, so you have to ask for a receipt at that point. Also, it depends on who is working the booth upon entry when you park at Showboat. Technically, they are not supposted to give a receipt, as since you did not pay, you are not entitled to a transfer. Some employees ignore this rule, like I said, it is all about who you get working.

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So you have to have a card before you park there the first time if you want free parking?

[Poshua]

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So you have to have a card before you park there the first time if you want free parking?

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Yes. The card is the same Harrah's Total Rewards card they issue at their properties nationally, though, not a Showboat- or Harrah's-specific card.

[pa3lsvt]

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So you have to have a card before you park there the first time if you want free parking?

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Yes. The card is the same Harrah's Total Rewards card they issue at their properties nationally, though, not a Showboat- or Harrah's-specific card.

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If you really, really want to get a card to park for free at the Showboat, go to Harrah's (I've never seen a person ever manning the parking booths but they are on the way out so it doesn't matter). Park, go inside, get a TR card, play some poker (optional), then leave and go to the 'Boat.

I personally like Harrah's room a lot - it's small but every 1/2 NL game is a juicy as the next in the summer. The floor there is the best I've seen in action - they tend not to take any nonsense and are very clear on what the rules are and how to enforce them.

Never played their tourneys so I can't comment on the structure, but that AC Poker Guide link has pretty detailed structures for almost all of the tourneys in the city.

[dudemanjack]

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If you really, really want to get a card to park for free at the Showboat, go to Harrah's (I've never seen a person ever manning the parking booths but they are on the way out so it doesn't matter). Park, go inside, get a TR card, play some poker (optional), then leave and go to the 'Boat.


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If you park in the surface lot at Showboat you don't have to "pay" until you leave (if there's even anybody in the booth to begin with) so you don't need to take the trip to Harrah's.

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I personally like Harrah's room a lot - it's small but every 1/2 NL game is a juicy as the next in the summer. The floor there is the best I've seen in action - they tend not to take any nonsense and are very clear on what the rules are and how to enforce them.

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I like playing at Harrah's a lot but the floor is normally awful unless Tina (shorter black woman) or John Q are flooring. However, I agree they don't put up with any nonsense from players which is a relief. To be honest I haven't seen many casinos in Atlantic City take much crap from players - except maybe the Taj sometimes.

[pa3lsvt]

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I like playing at Harrah's a lot but the floor is normally awful unless Tina (shorter black woman) or John Q are flooring. However, I agree they don't put up with any nonsense from players which is a relief. To be honest I haven't seen many casinos in Atlantic City take much crap from players - except maybe the Taj sometimes.

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Awesome - now I know Tina's name. She's the best. I think those are the two specific floors I was talking about as being top notch.

I've seen the floors at the 'Boat do some pretty stupid things (allow a player to pull chips out of a pot in a tournament, keep a 3 handed game running 3 handed when there were 3 other 9 handed 1/2 games, allow drunken belligerents continue their behavior without reprieve). I'm never going back there no matter how juicy the games because the room is run by incompetents.