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So there is a new casino/poker room opening soon near me(Feb 1st), del Lago casino in upstate NY, I'm usually only an online player and only have played tournaments live but never cash. I was wondering if the excitement of a new poker room might bring in a lot of fish or easy games. If anybody has any experience with this kind of situation any insight would help.

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Tioga Downs recently opened. It saw a number of players that play regularly at Turning Stone, Salamanca, Pocono Downs and other PA casinos return 'home' for the opening weeks. Also a number of locals that may have only played a few times in local home games or on vacation trips have shown up regularly to play. TD is regularly running a $1000NLH game on Fri & Sat nites that none of the closer competitors run.

So you'll get your mixture of amateur/tourist players plus the local 'sharks' showing up. If the new room is on Bravo, check that out often to see what kind of traffic you're getting.
 
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Jillychemung said:
Tioga Downs recently opened. It saw a number of players that play regularly at Turning Stone, Salamanca, Pocono Downs and other PA casinos return 'home' for the opening weeks. Also a number of locals that may have only played a few times in local home games or on vacation trips have shown up regularly to play. TD is regularly running a $1000NLH game on Fri & Sat nites that none of the closer competitors run.

So you'll get your mixture of amateur/tourist players plus the local 'sharks' showing up. If the new room is on Bravo, check that out often to see what kind of traffic you're getting.
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Thanks for the response, I haven't been to Tioga yet. Do they run tournaments there or just cash? On Bravo it has been saying tournaments coming soon since they opened but I haven't heard anything else about them
 
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bmcdermott14 said:
Do they run tournaments there or just cash?
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They have their tournament schedule decided, they are just waiting on gaming commission approval before they advertise them. I know and have talked with a couple of the floor people and dealers.
 
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I usually like to play live tournaments just for fun, its not profitable like online play, because u cant play more than one table like u do griding online, and the lucky count's more on live. Of course have somes grindes of live poker, but all of they advice which most of profitable poker comes from online
 
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