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Old Jul 5, 2013 | 1:36 pm
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bgriff
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Originally Posted by saysky
Hello everyone, I'm new here, I wanted to ask a few questions about the borgata and was hoping someone here could help me.

I've been playing every Friday at the borgata, 1/2 no limit holdem for 7 hours each visit.
I only go on weekends, and don't want to drive back and forth on the same weekend, so I really want a Friday night room comp so I can spend 2 days down there.
does anyone have an idea of how many hours I would have to log playing 1/2 nlhe like this?
it seems 7 hrs is my max for a continuous session, my lower back starts killing me after that.
I'm pretty new to AC, I only have ~$40 comp dollars from the past month.

Thanks!
Poker doesn't earn comps very fast since it's less profitable for the casino than traditional table games (though hopefully you also lose less money). I believe Borgata has a pretty straightforward comp deal in terms of poker, a certain amount of comp dollars per hour played. For free rooms, a good estimate is roughly what your average comp dollar earnings per trip are -- in my experience when you start to be around $40 comp dollars earned per trip you can expect to get most Friday nights available as a comp. I'm pretty sure that level would be hard to reach just playing poker, especially at the lower-limit tables.

However, even playing the amount you do, you should have a discounted room rate showing up in your account, so it may be worth just paying for the room if it's worth it to you; if you book in advance and avoid holiday weekends the discounted rates can be quite reasonable.

Of course, the other way to get a comped room is to earn more comp dollars per trip, which probably means playing table games -- but of course there is an expected loss to the house for every dollar gambled there, and the house aims to give you back less in comps than you are expected over time to lose at the tables.
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