borgata wants a hundred bucks for a poker rate?

[JEM7VSBL]

yea, just remembered, the poker rate is $100, discountable to 39 after eight hours of play. they will charge your credit card that amount and credit it back to you a day or two after you check-out.

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yea, just remembered, the poker rate is $100, discountable to 39 after eight hours of play. they will charge your credit card that amount and credit it back to you a day or two after you check-out.

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No--you only pay your final room bill at checkout.

If you use a check card, however, they will charge something like 300 bucks on it when you check in as a room deposit. That's what gets charged back a few days later.

scrub

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Also, none of you should be worrying about managing to play the full 8 hours. The Borgata collects cards at like 5 am for the new day. As long as they don't collect the cards at a time when you're clocked in but not in the room, they can't tell whether or not you've played poker for all the hours your card has been clocked in for.

So, right after you check in to the hotel, sit down in a game and clock in. Stay clocked in whether or not you're still playing until you feel like going to bed, then go down and clock out. If you're staying for multiple days, stay up until they collect the cards for the new day, then sleep really late and you'll have your room rate taken care of by the time you wake up.

scrub

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scrub,

thanks for the tips. much appreciated.

[AviD]

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Also, none of you should be worrying about managing to play the full 8 hours. The Borgata collects cards at like 5 am for the new day. As long as they don't collect the cards at a time when you're clocked in but not in the room, they can't tell whether or not you've played poker for all the hours your card has been clocked in for.

So, right after you check in to the hotel, sit down in a game and clock in. Stay clocked in whether or not you're still playing until you feel like going to bed, then go down and clock out. If you're staying for multiple days, stay up until they collect the cards for the new day, then sleep really late and you'll have your room rate taken care of by the time you wake up.

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Teh Sneaky Swindler

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Also, none of you should be worrying about managing to play the full 8 hours. The Borgata collects cards at like 5 am for the new day. As long as they don't collect the cards at a time when you're clocked in but not in the room, they can't tell whether or not you've played poker for all the hours your card has been clocked in for.

So, right after you check in to the hotel, sit down in a game and clock in. Stay clocked in whether or not you're still playing until you feel like going to bed, then go down and clock out. If you're staying for multiple days, stay up until they collect the cards for the new day, then sleep really late and you'll have your room rate taken care of by the time you wake up.

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Teh Sneaky Swindler

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The funny thing is that I play like 18 legit hours every day I'm there anyway, so I don't usually do it. It's why you see a lot of people playing until they collect cards and then getting up the next time there's a time collection, though...

Also, I forgot to mention that the best possible room rate is when a cool guy like AviD lets you crash on his extra bed when you're there without a room...

scrub

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Also, I forgot to mention that the best possible room rate is when a cool guy like AviD lets you crash on his extra bed when you're there without a room...

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AviD rules!

- Tash

[Woody09]

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Also, none of you should be worrying about managing to play the full 8 hours. The Borgata collects cards at like 5 am for the new day. As long as they don't collect the cards at a time when you're clocked in but not in the room, they can't tell whether or not you've played poker for all the hours your card has been clocked in for.

So, right after you check in to the hotel, sit down in a game and clock in. Stay clocked in whether or not you're still playing until you feel like going to bed, then go down and clock out. If you're staying for multiple days, stay up until they collect the cards for the new day, then sleep really late and you'll have your room rate taken care of by the time you wake up.

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Sorry but this doesn't seem possible. I find it hard to believe that if you are clocked in and leave, then someone fills that seat the computer system doesn't recognize that you are not playing, and subsequently clock you out. Especially since there are a finite amount of seats, (say 500) if 501+ people are clocked in that is pretty good proof that not all of those clocked are playing. Casino tracking systems must be much more sophisticated than you purport them to be considering your proposition could cost the Borgata hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of a year.

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Sorry but this doesn't seem possible. I find it hard to believe that if you are clocked in and leave, then someone fills that seat the computer system doesn't recognize that you are not playing, and subsequently clock you out.

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how does the computer know who left?
im fairly certain scrubs technique works (ive been doing similar for a while)

[Woody09]

I'm cynical and skeptical b/c the floor should have some regulation over this