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Pros : The employees are all extremely polite and respectful. There are phone chargers on the tables. Somehow, they don't all work, however. You can register for a waitlist before arriving at the casino.
Cons : The cocktail service is the worst service of any kind that I've ever experienced. Sometimes they take orders when dropping off, sometimes they don't. They often don't come back to take your order when they tell you they will. They literally forget your order about 50% of the time. It takes far too long to get a drink. One night it took 2 hours and 10 minutes. I thought this was supposed to be a 5 star casino?
Food is very expensive, and their comps aren't working yet, so you cannot use any. They also only give you $1 an hour, which is very little.
They are taking extra rake for the jackpot, which they don't even have yet. Not cool that I'm paying for promos that I can't win. That money is lost since I won't be back when they start up.
Only Verizon cell service seems to work here. Their WiFi is terrible.
The cashier is egregiously slow, and you have to get your first buy in at the cage.
The action was disappointing. Some games are pretty good, but considering how much money there is in Boston, I find most games shallow and underwhelming.
The only time you are allowed to change seats is when a player leaves the table. The dealer will ask if anyone wants the seat. After that, you can't move.
The tables on the balcony are extremely loud at night, making it very difficult to communicate with anyone at the table. Dealers on those tables struggle to hear as well.
Many of the dealers are slow and make lots of mistakes. A dealer called the clock on a player after 30 seconds because they thought it was protocol. There are lots of mistakes with moving the button, and not getting change during hands. One of the dealers kept taking full rake short handed even though he was told 3 times to do half rake.
I couldn't get in a game one night because they kept starting a new game with 6 players and I didn't want to do that. I wanted to go to a mostly full game. I also opted to not go play on a Friday, due to the absurdly long wait list. The 1/3 wait list had over 100 people on it and 2/5 had 50-60 at one point.
50 free coin master spins. Part of Encore Boston Harbor Cash games run 24 hours daily at the luxurious Encore Poker Room, which features 74 poker tables, including 11 high-limit tables, six separate VIP tables, and a dedicated seven-window poker cage. The 1,800+ slot machines at Encore Boston Harbor offer games for every enthusiast, from video slots to reel slots, video poker and electronic table games. Enjoy baccarat, blackjack and roulette at our fully automated or dealer assisted tables, with the ease and fun of faster play.
With Poker games seemingly in no position to return to Massachusetts casinos any time soon, many former Poker dealers at Encore Boston Harbor have begun to train for other permitted games like Blackjack.
Encore Spokesman Eric Kraus said that 70 Poker dealers at Encore have participated in a new program offered by the company to train for other permitted games, those mostly being Blackjack.
'Because we shut down the Poker Room and furloughed several of those Poker Room employees, we have started training those Poker dealers and others with game experience in dealing. We are offering them to train on Blackjack dealing mostly. We don't like furloughing employees. They are family members. So, we tell them about all open positions and see if anyone furloughed is a good fit for those positions. If they're furloughed and would be a good fit, we can bring them back to open positions. We invest a lot in our employees, whether finding them, training them and keeping them. We don't want them to leave during a furlough.'
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He said there are approximately 70 dealers of Poker that are or have re-trained for Blackjack, one of the only table games now allowed in the state.
At the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) meeting last Thursday, the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau (IEB) gave one of its first updates on the possibility of returning Poker, and the long and short of that is Poker is currently not possible.
The IEB explained that Poker requires many people at the table to be worthwhile and profitable for the casino, and at the moment the best that can be done is four players at a time.
'In order to make Poker a safe game, we could put only about four people at a table,' said one of the members. 'In discussions with operators, this would mean Poker would not be profitable. At this point, we wouldn't recommend Poker until we can get more players at the table and do that safely.'
The IEB indicated some other states with gaming are returning Poker and allowing many people at a table. With COVID-19 restrictions as they are, it isn't a course the MGC is willing to forge.
'That's not what I would consider a safe situation for employees or players,' he said. 'Poker at its heart is a marginally profitable game for casinos. We would at best get four players at a table and that's a very, very low profit, it at all a profit, for casinos.'
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Pros : The employees are all extremely polite and respectful. There are phone chargers on the tables. Somehow, they don't all work, however. You can register for a waitlist before arriving at the casino.
Cons : The cocktail service is the worst service of any kind that I've ever experienced. Sometimes they take orders when dropping off, sometimes they don't. They often don't come back to take your order when they tell you they will. They literally forget your order about 50% of the time. It takes far too long to get a drink. One night it took 2 hours and 10 minutes. I thought this was supposed to be a 5 star casino?
Food is very expensive, and their comps aren't working yet, so you cannot use any. They also only give you $1 an hour, which is very little.
They are taking extra rake for the jackpot, which they don't even have yet. Not cool that I'm paying for promos that I can't win. That money is lost since I won't be back when they start up.
Only Verizon cell service seems to work here. Their WiFi is terrible.
The cashier is egregiously slow, and you have to get your first buy in at the cage.
The action was disappointing. Some games are pretty good, but considering how much money there is in Boston, I find most games shallow and underwhelming.
The only time you are allowed to change seats is when a player leaves the table. The dealer will ask if anyone wants the seat. After that, you can't move.
The tables on the balcony are extremely loud at night, making it very difficult to communicate with anyone at the table. Dealers on those tables struggle to hear as well.
Many of the dealers are slow and make lots of mistakes. A dealer called the clock on a player after 30 seconds because they thought it was protocol. There are lots of mistakes with moving the button, and not getting change during hands. One of the dealers kept taking full rake short handed even though he was told 3 times to do half rake.
I couldn't get in a game one night because they kept starting a new game with 6 players and I didn't want to do that. I wanted to go to a mostly full game. I also opted to not go play on a Friday, due to the absurdly long wait list. The 1/3 wait list had over 100 people on it and 2/5 had 50-60 at one point.
50 free coin master spins. Part of Encore Boston Harbor Cash games run 24 hours daily at the luxurious Encore Poker Room, which features 74 poker tables, including 11 high-limit tables, six separate VIP tables, and a dedicated seven-window poker cage. The 1,800+ slot machines at Encore Boston Harbor offer games for every enthusiast, from video slots to reel slots, video poker and electronic table games. Enjoy baccarat, blackjack and roulette at our fully automated or dealer assisted tables, with the ease and fun of faster play.
With Poker games seemingly in no position to return to Massachusetts casinos any time soon, many former Poker dealers at Encore Boston Harbor have begun to train for other permitted games like Blackjack.
Encore Spokesman Eric Kraus said that 70 Poker dealers at Encore have participated in a new program offered by the company to train for other permitted games, those mostly being Blackjack.
'Because we shut down the Poker Room and furloughed several of those Poker Room employees, we have started training those Poker dealers and others with game experience in dealing. We are offering them to train on Blackjack dealing mostly. We don't like furloughing employees. They are family members. So, we tell them about all open positions and see if anyone furloughed is a good fit for those positions. If they're furloughed and would be a good fit, we can bring them back to open positions. We invest a lot in our employees, whether finding them, training them and keeping them. We don't want them to leave during a furlough.'
Encore Boston Poker Tournaments Schedule Daily
He said there are approximately 70 dealers of Poker that are or have re-trained for Blackjack, one of the only table games now allowed in the state.
At the Massachusetts Gaming Commission (MGC) meeting last Thursday, the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau (IEB) gave one of its first updates on the possibility of returning Poker, and the long and short of that is Poker is currently not possible.
The IEB explained that Poker requires many people at the table to be worthwhile and profitable for the casino, and at the moment the best that can be done is four players at a time.
'In order to make Poker a safe game, we could put only about four people at a table,' said one of the members. 'In discussions with operators, this would mean Poker would not be profitable. At this point, we wouldn't recommend Poker until we can get more players at the table and do that safely.'
The IEB indicated some other states with gaming are returning Poker and allowing many people at a table. With COVID-19 restrictions as they are, it isn't a course the MGC is willing to forge.
'That's not what I would consider a safe situation for employees or players,' he said. 'Poker at its heart is a marginally profitable game for casinos. We would at best get four players at a table and that's a very, very low profit, it at all a profit, for casinos.'
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At Encore, the Poker Room and Poker areas have largely been repurposed to accommodate more Blackjack tables at greater distances.
