Atlantic City casinos (2 Viewers)

[Marius L]

I have a friend who is living in New York for a while, and he is planing a trip to Atlantic City. What is your recommendations for poker there?

He plays low stakes NLHE mainly. Both tournament and cash. Anyone in the area have some ideas on which casino he should check out, and in general what stakes and tournaments they offer on a regular basis?

Thanks

 

[Blaster]

Borgata

 

[Old State]

Borgata, Borgata, and Borgata.

Harrahs next door has some low buy in tourneys during the week (actual many of them do). Look on line. Harrahs is pretty nice too but after Revel closed there is no casino in the same league as Borgata. It’s nice compared to the best Vegas casinos and as good if not better than the best out there.

 

[bivey]

Borgata's room, hands down. I do miss the old Taj room though.

 

[arch3r]

Borgata's room, hands down. I do miss the old Taj room though.

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[Old State]

If Rounders was made 5 years later Borgata would have been in the movie. The original Poker room was way smaller than where it is now but it attracted big cash games very early on.

Borgata overnight made every casino in AC look like a dump. Hundreds of millions of dollars was spent by AC casinos in the early to mid 2000s trying to catch up. Borgata has maintained itself very nicely. It looks as good now as it did opening week.

 

[Marius L]

Thanks for all the replies guys. I will tell him that Borgata is the place to be!

 

[p5woody]

I understand Borgata is the best poker room in AC, what about on the boardwalk? I might go with my wife and she wants to stay on the boardwalk.

 

[PhilLaFond]

I understand Borgata is the best poker room in AC, what about on the boardwalk? I might go with my wife and she wants to stay on the boardwalk.

Try the Tropicana

 

[MaxB]

Ballys ..... they have the newly remodeled (new when I went a couple years ago) WSOP poker room. Plenty of space, decent lighting, and 1/2 up to 5/10 games played. I just played the cash game but there was a tourney going on. I had to cash out at 3:30am but the tables that were open were still full. Got to sit next to "Angry Asian"... the name the dealers and pit boss called him (he was from the Philippines). The guy was so racist and proud of it. Was so nasty to the dealers and waitresses. Almost got kicked out. Must have lost $500+ on our 1/2 table in 30 min...he called or raised everything and never had a good hand. Finally the 5/10 opened, he told us all to fuck off, then moved over. Gotta love the NJ crowd (y) :thumbsup:

 

[SixSpeedFury]

Definitely Borgata.

I understand Borgata is the best poker room in AC, what about on the boardwalk? I might go with my wife and she wants to stay on the boardwalk.

Once Hard Rock opens, that'll be the best one on the boardwalk.

 

[p5woody]

Definitely Borgata.



Once Hard Rock opens, that'll be the best one on the boardwalk.

I forgot about Hard Rock opening up, that might be cool to check out this summer.

 

[justsomedude]

Definitely Borgata.

Once Hard Rock opens, that'll be the best one on the boardwalk.

In one of the Hard Rock AC threads some one posted they only have 20 tables planned. If that's true, I'm not sure they're tying to compete with Borgata. The Borgata has more than 80.

 

[Irish]

I understand Borgata is the best poker room in AC, what about on the boardwalk? I might go with my wife and she wants to stay on the boardwalk.

Try the Tropicana

X2 It's been a while since we've stayed there, but my wife liked the trop, it had a nice shopping area for her to walk around while I played.

 

[SixSpeedFury]

In one of the Hard Rock AC threads some one posted they only have 20 tables planned. If that's true, I'm not sure they're tying to compete with Borgata. The Borgata has more than 80.

None of them can compete with Borgata. But as far as on the boardwalk goes, Hard Rock will be the nicest one.

 

[justsomedude]

None of them can compete with Borgata. But as far as on the boardwalk goes, Hard Rock will be the nicest one.

Ahhh I see what you're saying! (y) :thumbsup:

 

[Old State]

In one of the Hard Rock AC threads some one posted they only have 20 tables planned. If that's true, I'm not sure they're tying to compete with Borgata. The Borgata has more than 80.

I don’t go anywhere near as often as the mid 2000s (married with kids now) but from the table conversation I’ve heard over the last few years, they rarely fill all those tables. I forget how many tables their original room had but ~20 sounds right. It was designed before the boom and then built as it was happening. Wait times on a weekday were very long. Then they built the large room just as the boom had peaked. I think if they were to have a “do over” on the current room it would be a bit smaller.

As for boardwalk options I played tourneys at the Trop many times years ago but have just walked by it a few times since. Seems ok still. I just remember the chips being so filthy there and other non Borgata casinos that you press on a stack of 5-8 chips and pick the whole stack up with just the top chip