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Whether you play poker for fun or your livelihood, real-world casinos serve it with something that online can’t duplicate: dealers who enjoy the game as much as you do.

The poker room is smoke-free, but the main casino floor is not. Small daily tournaments will probably be held in the main poker room. Larger tournament locations are still TBD, but will likely not take place in the main poker room, instead being held either in the old Parx East building or in the Xcite center.

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“You want your staff to be poker players … (and) see the room through the eyes of the players,” says Bill Entenmann, director of poker operations at Parx Casino, whose poker room generates more revenue than any other in the state “People who don’t play themselves don’t understand what the customers’ needs are.”

Pennsylvania Live Poker

Across Pennsylvania, casinos appeal to poker players not only with knowledgeable staffs but also with a plethora of tournaments, a broad range of table limits, and promotions such as high-hand bonuses and bad-beat jackpots.

Pennsylvania’s 10 largest casinos offer live poker, and a $600 million casino being built in South Philadelphia includes plans for a 33-table poker room. The rooms range from 48 tables at Parx to only seven at Presque Isle in Erie. All are smoke-free and publicize their offerings on the Bravo poker app.

Pittsburgh-based poker player David Eldridge, who has cashed in several WSOP tournaments and played on TV’s “Poker Night in America,” provides a checklist for a good poker room reflects what many players want:

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A decent-sized room that is separated from the smoke and noise in the rest of the casino
Comfortable chairs
Efficient and effective management, such as the handling of waiting lists or disputes

Beyond those, he enjoys amenities such as phone-charging ports at each seat, working wifi, good food options and the availability of tableside massages. While he usually looks for higher stakes cash games that typically would be offered at only one table, he says players at smaller stakes find more table selection at larger rooms.

Bad Beat jackpots and high-hand bonuses attract many players who enjoy $1-3 or $2-5 no-limit or $3-6 and $4-8 limit, but higher-stakes players often turn up their noses at such promotions.

Entenman said some view the extra dollar of rake taken from each pot to fund those promotions as “a lottery ticket” they’re forced to buy.

Generally, Pennsylvania poker rooms rake 10 percent of the pot up to $5, plus $1 or $2 for promotions. Hold ’Em and PLO are the most common games; the most prevalent no-limit games are 1-3 and 2-5, with limit games typically 3-6 or 4-8.

Internet gambling is on the horizon in Pennsylvania, with nine of the 13 land-based casinos applying for licenses to offer online poker in PA, other table games, and slot-like games. Applicants paid $10 million each for the licenses and include Stadium Casinos, whose Philadelphia facility is scheduled to open in 2020.

If Pennsylvania casinos follow New Jersey’s lead, many online promotions and tournaments will wind up bringing those players into the casino. Here’s a look at what each Pennsylvania poker room offers.

Cardrooms and Poker Rooms in Pennsylvania

Mt. Airy Casino Resort

Location: 312 Woodland Rd. Mount Pocono, PA 18344

Phone: (877) 682-4791

Website:www.mountairycasino.com/casino/poker/

Tables: Nine

Promotions: High-hand bonus

Comp rate: $1 per hour

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Trivia: Mt. Airy’s non-casino offerings include an 18-hole lakefront golf course and a 16,000-square-foot spa, salon and exercise facility.

2017-18 gross poker revenue: $1.24 million, up by about $55,000

Parx

Location: 2999 Street Road Bensalem, PA 19020

Phone: 267-525-7300 (poker room)

Website:www.parxcasino.com/poker

Tables: 48

Promotions: High-hand bonuses, with winners also qualifying for twice-a-month cash drawings; Bad Beat jackpot; quarterly Big Stax tournaments; World Poker Tour stop.

Comp rate: $1 an hour for 1-2 no-limit; increases with higher stakes

Extras: Phone-charging port at each seat; free wifi; rake for promotions limited to $1 per pot

Trivia: New poker room opened in January as part of a $50 million project that included the addition of the XCite Center concert venue. It includes 28 large-screen TVs and a three-table high-limit room. Poker Operations Director Bill Entenman says Tuesdays tend to be the nights for high-limit games; a recent Tuesday had 10-10 No Limit Hold ’Em, 15-30 and 40-80 Limit Hold ’Em, 50-100 HOE and 10-10 PLO in addition to more than a dozen more common games, such as 1-3 and 2-5 No Limit Hold ’Em.

2017-18 gross poker revenue: $17.3 million, up by about $14,000 from 2016-17.

Rivers

Location: 777 Casino Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Phone: 412-566-4606 (poker room)

Website:https://www.riverscasino.com/pittsburgh/casino/poker-room

Tables: 30

Promotions: High-hand bonuses; Bad Beat jackpot; regular stop for “Poker Night in America;”

Comp rate: $1 per hour

Extras: Call-ahead seating good for up to an hour; phone-charging ports at each table.

Trivia: Rivers was the site of two showdowns between some of the world’s top heads-up poker players and Artificial Intelligence units developed at Carnegie Mellon University. In the 2017 test, which involved 120,000 hands over 20 days of play, the AI crushed the four human pros, the first such victory in the world.

2017-18 gross poker revenue: $6.6 million, down from $6.7 million

Harrah’s Philadelphia

Location: 777 Harrah’s Blvd. Chester, PA 19013

Phone: (800) 480-8020, Option 3

Website:www.caesars.com/harrahs-philly/casino/poker

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Tables: 28

Promotions: High hand bonus, typically paid every hour or half hour; Bad Beat Jackpot, quarterly Diamond Delight tournaments that include cash prizes plus entry into WSOP Main Event and Millionaire Maker tournaments or Diamond level players club membership for a year.

Comp rate: $1 to $3 per hour, depending on game and blind structure

Extras: Mississippi Straddle allowed on all Hold ’Em and Omaha games; “run it twice” option allowed on time-raked no-limit and PLO games.

Trivia: Only World Series of Poker-affiliated room in the state

2017-18 gross poker revenue: $4.77 million, down from $5.3 million

SugarHouse

Location: https://stcutri.weebly.com/blog/best-shopping-list-app-mac. 1001 N. Delaware Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19125

Phone: 215-717-3883 (poker room)

Website:www.sugarhousepoker.com

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