Orleans Poker Room

blue3715 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 189

jacknine wrote:

We are really thinking about going out to the WSOP this year, we have been to several circuit events but a friend was out last year and said the 340 tourneys at night was a great value.

$75 are a great value too, if you can get a good # of hours out of it... other than that, if you don't cash... what's so "great" about it. lol

jacknine · **Joined:** Mon Jan 16, 2012 2:58 pm **Posts:** 6

LOL good point I have been trying to pull up the structure sheet with no luck I didn't see a 75, for 75 I'm not sure you could get me out of Vegas unless it is a turbo or a fast structure. Not so big on the luck box tournaments I can stay home and find those.

Phantom309 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 2:23 pm

Local Rock wrote:

Wilwom wrote:

I'll plan to play the Orleans or Suncoast or Sam's Town poker room around the holidays to see what happens with my own Boyd Gaming "BConnected" account, which has been inactive for several months.

What did you discover?

Local Rock · **Posted:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 9:22 pm

Phantom309 wrote:

Local Rock wrote:

I'll plan to play the Orleans or Suncoast or Sam's Town poker room around the holidays to see what happens with my own Boyd Gaming "BConnected" account, which has been inactive for several months.

What did you discover?

^^[Corrected the quote tags in the box above. --L.R.]

The new system allows the poker comps to be spent anywhere in Boyd Gaming's national chain, and the general casino player's card (the "Bconnected" card) is now used in their poker rooms instead of having separate poker room player cards, but they don't show up as the same kind of credits on the account as slot play. This is also how their system handles comps for all other table games now. Unlike pit games and poker, their race & sportsbook operations remain a totally separate system which does not use the "Bconnected" casino players' card.

So, they do have the convenience of an integrated multi-property system providing comps you can spend wherever you want without going back to any property's poker room for the old style comp vouchers that were tied to that property, but you won't get the kind of credits that count toward higher tiers of player rewards accounts as you would for playing slots. I'm not sure what higher tiered cards are really good for in their new system at this point, and I suspect nobody else really does either, including company management. This is what I understand from what I've been told by asking questions of poker room and casino staff; I haven't yet spent any of my own poker comps under the new system.

LasVegasMichael · **Posted:** Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:23 am

The Orleans changed their tournament schedule a bit. The structure for the O/8 tournament became much more player friendly and a few tournaments were added. This has all been updated on the main site.

Check it out here: http://www.allvegaspoker.com/room_16.html

blue3715 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 189

LasVegasMichael wrote:

The Orleans changed their tournament schedule a bit. The structure for the O/8 tournament became much more player friendly and a few tournaments were added. This has all been updated on the main site.

Check it out here: http://www.allvegaspoker.com/room_16.html

Yes they added 150/300 and 3k/6k levels and also first 4 levels are 20 min (reentry period is 80 mins) then after that the levels are 30 min.

We have 70 last thurs. I made 8th (paid 8) at about midnight.

Much friendlier structure.

blue3715 · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 189

LasVegasMichael wrote:

The Orleans changed their tournament schedule a bit. The structure for the O/8 tournament became much more player friendly and a few tournaments were added. This has all been updated on the main site.

Check it out here: http://www.allvegaspoker.com/room_16.html

Mike. Late reg is now 80 mins and only the first 4 levels are 20 mins.

MrEgo · **Joined:** Tue Mar 02, 2010 2:36 pm **Posts:** 9

I played in the Friday night tournament in September and there were 259 players. Does the Friday 7:00pm tournament still get a lot of players? How many have been in the Friday night tournament?

franker31 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:48 pm

Local Rock wrote:

Wilwom wrote:

On December 19th they are moving away from the poker room card to the Be Connected Card for comps. All hours will earn at $1.25 from that point.

Anyone have any more information about this? I just saw it in the recent room review referenced above.

If they did take it all the way to thoroughly integrate poker play into their system, treating it as equivalent to slot points for setting room rates, tier benefits, and other purposes, this could eventually be a big deal and a major draw for a lot of people. Or, it could amount to nothing much at all, just using the other card to get a buck and a quarter, as with some other halfway attempts to emulate the C/HET Total Rewards system. This company does have enough of a national network of regional properties that they could conceivably try to use their upgraded player tracking and reward system to leverage those local joints with their Las Vegas properties if they really wanted to go for it, similar to what Caesars/Harrah's Ent. did so effectively with their system before the corporate office recently blundered into carpet bombing their poker rooms. If anyone knows anything more about any details of this change I'd be very interested in hearing about it, both as a poker player and an investor in the company.

I'll plan to play the Orleans or Suncoast or Sam's Town poker room around the holidays to see what happens with my own Boyd Gaming "BConnected" account, which has been inactive for several months.

Did anyone ever confirm that Orleans gives a flat $1.25/hr comps on new one card system vs old $1.25/hr for 4 hrs then $.50/hr up to $9/day max?

Local Rock · **Posted:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 5:27 am

franker31 wrote:

Did anyone ever confirm that Orleans gives a flat $1.25/hr comps on new one card system vs old $1.25/hr for 4 hrs then $.50/hr up to $9/day max?

I just left Orleans a few minutes ago, and on my way out remembered your post and stopped to re-confirm this. The supervisor on duty said that yes, under the new system now the points put on the Boyd "Bconnected" multi-property casino player's card for poker play now amount to a comp rate of $1.25/hr without any limitation on hours per day and the rate does not change. They have definitely ended their former practice of starting at one rate for the first four hours, then dropping to another rate after four hours in a day as they did under their old system on the old separate cards that were only used in the poker room.

It is simply a straight $1.25/hr regardless of when or how many hours.

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