New York City Area Hype Discussion

Any good venus for PLO6?

I live in Hoboken, been dreaming for years to jump on the path or 126 straight to times square to play. As of now whats my best closest option? I haven’t played since before the pandemic. I’m literally salivating at the feel of some dirty chips in my hand.

Parx

Do you drive? If not, you can take the Transbridge from PABT to Wind Creek. There's one bus going and one coming home. I play with a guy who takes it regularly, he get to the casino around 11:45 and leaves the poker room around 5:45.

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thank god for that clarification, thanks

thanks ive taken the tb before when it was sands, i was thinking of doing this but just read in wind creeks thread this poker room fell off. are the tables juicy? i drive but (its my girlfriends car). to the guy who said parx i wish they had some sort of way to get there via bus from pabt. wanna try that place.

Games in general everywhere have declined, it's not just at WC but there are still good games there. I play there 20 to 30 hrs/wk, and I also played a few hours in 1/2 this past weekend because of the snow (bought in for 400 and won over 700 before the 2/5 opened up), the money's still there but if you're in a bad game they're great about table changes. You can get stuck in a bad game anywhere, it's not a reason not to go there. The 1/3 at Parx is probably better if you drive, but if not WC is fine.

https://www.playny.com/advertisement-spo...

Guess it doesn't really mean much, but it does feel like this year will be the year for online, or so I hope.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/11/casin...

Do you think community boards that go along with the "fast-track" zoning legislation gain a significant advantage for the proposals in their area? I kinda think not but interesting to see some are in favor

When will we know about online soon or later in the year?? Tha ks

The legislature's usual MO is to stuff everything into the budget, which is due by April 1. But the session lasts through June. So if it's going to happen at all this year, it'll be in the next three to six months.

I saw this on the news yesterday, Mohegan Sun is proposing an underground (literally under ground) casino on the east side in the 40's.

At the end of the report the reporter said "we're still years away from casino's coming to NY"

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/midtown-casi...

I live in Stuytown and I'm on "Nextdoor" and in the last two weeks, noticed people posting to show up to a community board meeting about the proposal on Monday. I'm going to be at the Borgata, or I would go.

People are saying so many ridiculous things about what it's going to "bring" to the area so I've been keyboard warrior'ing it over there LOL

https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/01/11/blood...

Article with the blood money comment, although it doesn't really make any sense lol

https://www.playny.com/2024-online-casin...

Bill for online officially filed

https://www.playny.com/howard-glazer-new...

But then here's this guy saying less than 50% Hochul includes it in her budget

I mean, *******s are like opinions, everyone's got one

And the reason doesn't even really make sense. No one who would be involved in passing a law is involved in the casino licensing process. Multitask they may not, and once passed, rolling out legal online gambling in NY could go the way of rolling out legal pot (and downstate casino licenses), but the tasks at hand belong to separate groups.

I would imagine if they did get online poker it would probably be run by RW and not be on anyone else's network with sub-optimal software, but that's just me.

I know NJ is (or at least was originally?) limited to the operators of B&M casinos in the state, and the regs have a boatload of tech requirements. That seems like a reasonable answer to the fear that it'll cannibalize in-state B&M revenue, and would still open it to a variety of operators who already know what they're doing to establish their own in-state operation or partner with someone who can. (And some number of those have to have plans in place already.)

As I understand it the newly proposed bill includes a ton of potential operators including the B&M casinos and all the sport book operators.

No mention of online gaming (or the casino licensing process) in Hochul's presentation of her budget today, as expected. Not sure that this means a ton one way or the other, but be a lot cooler if she did

https://www.playny.com/addabbo-confident...

Addabbo still confident they have a good chance to get it in the final budget by April.

Confirming his bill calls for as many as 31 operators, including all the B&M casinos, all the sportsbook operators (and Fanduel and Pokerstars have the same ownership,) as well as 3 out of state bidders

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/hof...

Nassau County now claims they intercepted an email that would indicate Hofstra university is colluding with Hard Rock, by trying to block Sands from winning a license for Nassau Coliseum to give Citifield a better chance, President of Hofstra has been subpoenaed by the Nassau legislature.

The Nassau executive is someone who has supported the Sands proposal throughout, so biased, but situation is still kind of funny. Unless it lowers Citifield's chance, then its not funny at all

I was thinking about the logistics of a large scale poker room right in the middle of Times Square. Can you ***** imagine the amount of panhandling and shady **** that would be going on outside of that place 24/7? I spent a lot of time in that neighborhood in my 20's and early 30's. I'm almost 42 now. I think it would be absolutely crazy here in the mid or late 2020's.

The panhandling and shady **** is already going on there. Hard to see how a casino would change that much.