Hi, I am a European pro and I will be travelling around several US poker rooms for the next 30 days playing 2/5 to 5/10.
My goal is to play 100 hours of poker in at least 20 different poker rooms. After the session I will provide a review of each poker room along with any other information I find usefull.
First Session: Mohegan Sun Casino NJ
Twitter: @PokerSolid
Originally posted by PokerSolid
Hi, I am a European pro and I will be travelling around several US poker rooms for the next 30 days playing 2/5 to 5/10.My goal is to play 100 hours of poker in at least 20 different poker rooms. After the session I will provide a review of each poker room along with any other information I find usefull.
First Session: Mohegan Sun Casino NJ
Twitter: @PokerSolid
Hi PokerSolid,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com 
I look forward to following this — I've only played poker live at one in the US — the Bellagio.
I've played on cruise ships and in Canadian casinos though.
I find live poker very very difficult, since there is so much downtime between hands.
All the best,
VS
Hi, yes, I know the feeling. I used to play online mostly but I thought it would be interesting to have a challenge around live poker. And the US is definitely the place for live poker. We ll see how it goes...
Ok so first session is over. I played on Mohegan Sun Casino at NJ.
The casino
Overall, it's a pretty nice place to play poker. Mohegan Sun Casino is one of the biggest casinos in the East coast probably. You can find everything inside this small ''city''. Restaurants, bars and even night clubs.
Poker room
Playing poker here was nice experience overall (I mean except the result:D). Few things I didn't like. For some reason players could use their 100$ bills on the tables instead of chips. Using cash on the table instead of chips makes really hard to see the value of other people stacks. I had to ask all the time, "how much money do you have in your stack". Not the best approach on that issue. Other than that I think it was ok. Action was pretty good, lots of 1/2, 2/5 and 5/10 games running.
SESSION 1
Result: -1815$
Stakes: 2/5
Duration: 7 hours
Next stop...Parx Casino Philadelphia
Sorry for no updates but the schedule was very hard to manage, travelling, playing and searching for places to stay. More challenging than I thought. Anyways I ll have a big update soon, I ve played in 3 casinos already and keep going...
Originally posted by PokerSolid
Sorry for no updates but the schedule was very hard to manage, travelling, playing and searching for places to stay. More challenging than I thought. Anyways I ll have a big update soon, I ve played in 3 casinos already and keep going...
Yeah — I can imagine!
When I went to Vegas we had everything booked weeks in advance.
Ok it's update time. I ll post all the results from the sessions I had till now. Then I ll make my comments on each poker room.
Parx Casino Philladelphia
Session #2
Duration: 8 hours
Result: -1650$
Session #3
Duration: 8 hours
Result: -1700$
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Session 4-5
Total Duration: 18 hours
Result: +2410$
Parx Casino
Parx poker room seems a cool place to play at first glance. There are plenty of games running 24/7
from 1/3 to 5/10 and there is also some plo action.
I have to comment some annoying issues I run into. Firstly the service is extremely slow. You have to be very lucky to get a
coffee or a drink. Cashier's big line is another issue. During peak hours I had to wait more than 15min to get some chips because there was only one guy on the cashier desk.
Except those issues poker room seemed to run smoothly, floor managers and dealers was kind and helpfull, action was good. Surely a place for someone to grind.
Live Casino Philladelphia
I m still planning to stay for 2-3 more session here, so I ll give my feedback when I m done.
