Atlantic City Poker Questions

[FiveFingerz]

I visit the Trop almost on a weekly basis. Its a great place to play no its not the borgata but they run a good poker room, the play is half way decent, the dealers are great (other than 1 or 2 of them) and the service is pretty damn good.

As for the new owners trying to get poker out of there, what makes you say that?? Last I heard they had new Poker Room in the works for next year. Plus they've added a bunch of new tournaments and they run a great Sunday Tourney.

[flavio321]

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I visit the Trop almost on a weekly basis. Its a great place to play no its not the borgata but they run a good poker room, the play is half way decent, the dealers are great (other than 1 or 2 of them) and the service is pretty damn good.

As for the new owners trying to get poker out of there, what makes you say that?? Last I heard they had new Poker Room in the works for next year. Plus they've added a bunch of new tournaments and they run a great Sunday Tourney.

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the new room will be smaller by 20+ tables. casinos rather have slots, which is their biggest money maker.

[vhawk01]

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Do you play a lot in the Caesar's 1/2 and 2/5 games? Advice is spot on, wonder if I've played with you, this is where I play pretty much 100% of the time.

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I used to play 30 hours a week at Caesars when I was playing 1/2. I've probably played about 100 hours of 2/5 there before I made borgata my home. I like the availibility of the games at borgata and the floor runs everything much better over there. The floor at Caesars has no idea how to run that room on the weekend when it gets crowded, its a joke.

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Agree with all of that with regards to the floor, but they like me a lot now, and the softness of the games is worth pretty much any obstacle. I'm easy to please.

[FiveFingerz]

You mean like how the Borgata built a smaller poker room then what they already had!

Come on now why in the hell would you spend the money to build a poker room that is half the size of what you have. A lot of these casinos are starting to cater a bit more to poker than they had in the past.

[flavio321]

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You mean like how the Borgata built a smaller poker room then what they already had!

Come on now why in the hell would you spend the money to build a poker room that is half the size of what you have. A lot of these casinos are starting to cater a bit more to poker than they had in the past.

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the poker market has reach peak and slowly dying for the smaller casinos in ac. borgata has huge market share that is killing the other casino's. and borgata can attract highrollers and they generate pit revenues. trop is downsizing their room. hilton took a chunk of the trops players and so did caesars.

[PokerDonkey27]

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Plus they've added a bunch of new tournaments and they run a great Sunday Tourney.

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I would not call eliminating all the AM tournaments, which is about 40-50% of the tournaments they offer as "adding a bunch of new tournaments". Or even better, they made all the lower buy-in tournaments single-add on.

[rubixxcube]

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You mean like how the Borgata built a smaller poker room then what they already had!

Come on now why in the hell would you spend the money to build a poker room that is half the size of what you have. A lot of these casinos are starting to cater a bit more to poker than they had in the past.

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??? New borgata poker room has 85 tables, i believe the old one had something like 45-60. The new room is definately bigger than the old one.

[NickMPK]

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I visit the Trop almost on a weekly basis. Its a great place to play no its not the borgata but they run a good poker room, the play is half way decent, the dealers are great (other than 1 or 2 of them) and the service is pretty damn good.

As for the new owners trying to get poker out of there, what makes you say that?? Last I heard they had new Poker Room in the works for next year. Plus they've added a bunch of new tournaments and they run a great Sunday Tourney.

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the new room will be smaller by 20+ tables. casinos rather have slots, which is their biggest money maker.

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I thought they were just closing the NL room, which is like 10-12 tables?

But there's something I don't understand about the "casinos rather have slots" argument. I have no doubt that the casinos make more money on the floor space they now devote to slots than what they devote to poker.

But every time I've been in any AC casino, there are a ton of open slot machines. Like, most of the them. Like, whole rows empty. No one who wants to play slots at any casino is being denied the opportunity. No one has a to be put on a waiting list, or play at a different limit/denomination than they would like.

If the casinos just added more slot machines, would they automatically attract additional players just because they have more machines? I don't think I've ever heard someone say, gee I would go to Tropicana more often if only they had more slot machines.

It seems much more likely that an AC casino will attract more customers by spreading more poker games, especially of different types and limits...you know, something that customers can't already get in unlimited quantities at every single AC casino.

But what would really attract additional customers of course is more affordable hotel rooms.

[Mike Gallo]

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As for limit games, Pink chip - Tropicana has the only Pink Game going hands down but sometimes you have to ask them to run it during the week. Weekends its usually always running. 5/10 limit and up I'd say Borgata and Taj (although its a dump IMO) in that order.

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[punkass]

I think the people saying the Taj is a dump hasn't been there in a while. They've upgraded their whole casino, trying to modernize it. Their chips aren't dirty anymore.

The only things that qualify as "dump" are the poker players. And even them have improved, I think.

I'm playing the Taj/Borg about 50/50 now, depending on my mood.