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Nov 05, 2013  TS is great, especially since its 18+ (bring your own alcohol), the cash game tables are really soft, usually have a decent amount of 1/2 tables with a couple 2/5 going (havent been there in a couple weeks so someone else can comment on this) nice hotel rooms (ask for the poker rate and its only $70 a night) and there is a sweet club Lava, which is pretty sick. Aug 20, 2006  My wife and I travelled to Turning Stone for the first time for a poker getaway. Got a great rate for poker players. We stayed in a very tasteful but small room in the tower, comfortable and quiet. 1 day ago  Brock Wilson Breaks Through In High Rollers With Massive Rush To End 2019 In The Final Two Months Of The Year, Wilson Cashed For More Than $1 Million. Jun 22, 2008  Re: Turning Stone Casino yo its not a dry casino anymore im almost certain that the new 'night club' in the casino has a liquor license but people bring in coolers and just get tanked liberally but the games there are pillowy soft and the tourneys that run at 11am and 7pm are more of a shove fest than poker by level 5 there is an ante so on.

Poker players in upstate New York have more choices of where to play, with four commercial casinos opening since late 2016 to join four tribal casinos offering live games.

Legal poker rooms and full-fledged casino gaming haven’t cracked the New York City metro market yet, but players looking for a Hold’em or Omaha game have a variety of options elsewhere in the state.

A state law allowing commercial casinos targeted areas that needed an economic boost, says Dave Urie, poker room manager at the $1.2 billion Resorts World Catskills, which had a grand opening in May 2018 in Monticello. Other commercial casinos are in Schenectady, Waterloo, and Nichols.

Tribal casinos with poker rooms are at Turning Stone in Verona, Seneca Niagara in Niagara Falls, Seneca Allegany in Salamanca, and Akwesasne in Hogansburg, which is so close to the Canadian border that some slot machines accept Canadian currency.

Competition for players has picked up as players get more choices.

“We’re still growing our room and brand,” says Dave Grubb of the poker room at Rivers Hotel and Casino. “There’s a big poker community in the capital region.”

For example, to counter the August grand opening of MGM Springfield in Massachusetts, about 100 miles away, his room will offer an hourly $1,000 high-hand bonus for six days.

All the casino poker rooms in New York are smoke-free. New York law requires commercial casinos – Tioga Downs, del Lago, Rivers and Resorts World Catskills – to be smoke-free throughout. Tribal casinos are allowed to have smoking areas inside the buildings.

All offer daily or weekly tournaments and NLHE; all except the five-table Akwesasne room also deal Omaha and occasionally a stud game when there’s enough interest.

Five rooms are listed on the Bravo phone app: Turning Stone, Resorts World, Rivers, Tioga Downs and Seneca Niagara. Del Lago uses the InTurn app by Bally Technologies.

Turning Stone was the first legal casino in the state, opening in 1993. Before that, underground poker games were so well- known that they were an integral part of the plot for the 1998 movie “Rounders,” starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton.

For an excellent history of New York’s poker evolution – from the “Goulash Joints” of the 1960s to the growth of private card clubs in the 1980s to the state’s role in the Black Friday crackdown of online sites in 2011 – see PlayNY.

Here is a look at casino-based poker rooms in New York, ranked by number of tables.

Turning Stone Resort Casino

Location: 5218 Patrick Rd. Verona, NY 13478
Phone: (315) 361-8676 (poker room)
Website:www.turningstone.com/gaming/poker-room
Tables: 32
Promotions: High-hand bonuses; Bad Beat jackpot
Comp rate: $1 per hour; $10 food voucher given for three hours of play between 1 and 10 a.m.; “rake back” promo offers cash reward ranging from $40 for 40 to 59 hours of monthly play to $250 for 200-plus hours.
Extras: Phone-charging ports at every seat; free wifi; tableside massage service for $1 per minute; big tournaments include Empire State Hold ’Em championships offer tournaments with $50,000 and $100,000 guaranteed prize pool;
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $1 for promotions
Trivia: Straddle and Button Straddle available on select games
About the property: Opened in 1993; casino has 1,715 slot machines and 85 house-banked table games; the site includes four hotels with a total of 707 rooms, two spas, five golf courses, more than 20 dining options, a showroom, a 5,000-seat arena, and a heliport.

Resorts World Catskills

Location: 888 Resorts World Drive Monticello, New York 12701
Phone: 845-428-7200 Ext. 1785
Website: www.rwcatskills.com/casino/poker
Tables: 19
Promotions: High-Hand bonus, awarded every 20, 30 or 60 minutes; Bad Beat jackpot;
Comp rate: $1 per hour
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $2 for promotions
Extras: Direct access to poker room from casino parking garage; restrooms and cashier cage within room; in-room food service; massage service available
Trivia: Feature game is $5-10 Omaha High-Low and Seven-Card Stud Eight-or-Better (O.E.), with full kill on Wednesdays and Fridays
About the property: Opened in May 2018; casino has 2,150 slot machines and 150 house-banked table games and private gaming salons; the all-suite hotel has 332 rooms, a spa, two indoor pools and two fitness centers; the RW Epicenter entertainment venue can seat 2,500.

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Rivers Casino and Resort

Location: 1 Rush Street: Schenectady, NY 12305
Phone: 518-579-8810 (poker room)
Website:www.riverscasinoandresort.com/casino/poker-room
Tables: 16
Promotions: High-hand bonus may also include free entry into tournaments, and players may use only one hole card to qualify; “Unlucky Sevens,” a promo similar to a bad-beat jackpot, splits $77,777 among all players at a table where quad sevens or better gets beaten; royal flush bonus, also can be won using only one hole card.
Comp rate: $1 per hour for most games; $1.50 per hour for $5-10 no-limit and $20-40 limit
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $2 for promotions
Extras: Text-to-order food service; free wifi, phone-charging ports at each seat; featured cash games include 20-40 Limit Hold ’Em on Tuesdays and $20-40 Omaha High-Low on Wednesdays and Thursdays; big tournaments include Capital Region Classic with $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, a Monster Stack event with a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool, and the Rivers Poker Open with a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Trivia: Only “Poker Night in America” room in the state.
About the property: Opened February 2017; casino has 1,150 slot machines, 67 house-banked table games, and off-track betting service; site features 165-room Landing Hotel and a 10,000-square-foot Event Center.

Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino

Location: 310 Fourth St. Niagara Falls, NY 14303
Phone: 716-278-6300 (poker room)
Website:www.senecaniagaracasino.com/casino/poker
Tables: 23
Promotions: High-hand bonus; Bad Beat jackpot; weekly tournament with $20 buy-in and $1,000 guaranteed prize pool
Comp rate: $1 an hour for most cash games; $2 an hour for $2-5 No Limit Hold ’Em
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $2 for promotions
Extras: Free wifi, complimentary beverages, phone chargers, tableside massage
Trivia: Stop for Mid-States Poker Tour and host of own Summer Slam and Western New York Poker Challenge tournament series
About the property: Opened in 2002; casino has more than 3,600 slot machines and 90 house-banked table games; hotel has 604 rooms, a full-service spa and salon, indoor swimming pool and 2,400-seat entertainment venue; site is near Niagara Falls State Park and the 18-hole Seneca Hickory Stick Golf Course.

Del Lago Resort & Casino

Location: 1133 State Route 414 Waterloo, NY 13165
Phone: 315-946-1759 (poker room)
Website:www.dellagoresort.com/casino/poker
Tables: 14
Promotions: High-hand bonus; Bad Beat jackpot
Comp rate: $1 per hour
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $2 for promotions
Extras: Free wifi; charging station at each table; instead of Bravo poker app, players can use InTurn phone app by Bally Technologies to get on waiting list and check current games or promotions.
Trivia: Del Lago was the second casino to sign casino to sign a sports-betting partnership with DraftKings, setting the stage for a retail sportsbook and an online operation if the state approves legislation. The agreement was announced July 16. DraftKings’ first partnership was with Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.
About the property: Opened in January 2017; casino has 1,956 slot machines and 85 house-banked table games; the hotel has 205 rooms and a spa.

Tioga Downs Casino Resort

Location: 2384 W. River Road Nichols, New York 13812
Phone: 607-699-7588
Website:www.tiogadowns.com/gaming/poker-room
Tables: 12
Promotions: High-hand bonuses, Bad Beat jackpot, hot seats, hot hands
Comp rate: $1 per hour
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5, plus $1 or $2 for promotions
Extras: All players get all-you-can-eat pizza from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturdays
Trivia: Home to the state’s only WSOP poker room
About the property: Opened in December 2016; casino has 944 slot machines and 32 house-banked table games; hotel has 160 rooms; harness racing track adjoins casino.

Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino

Location: 768 Broad Street Salamanca, NY 14779
Phone: 716-945-8902 (poker room)
Website:www.senecagames.com/senecapoker-salamanca
Tables: Eight
Promotions: High-hand bonuses
Comp rate: 60 cents per hour
Rake: $4 max, plus $2 for promotions
Trivia: Opens at 10 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Poker room is about three-fourths of a mile from the hotel-casino, with shuttle service provided.
About the property: Opened in 2004; casino has 1,800 slots and 33 house-banked table games; hotel has 413 rooms, a spa and salon, indoor pool, fitness facility, and 2,400-seat event center. The hotel and main casino is at 777 Seneca Allegany Blvd.

Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort

Location: 873 State Route 37 Hogansburg, NY 13655
Phone: 877-992-2746
Website:www.mohawkcasino.com/gaming/poker-room
Tables: Five; room opens at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, at noon Saturday and Sunday
Promotions: Bad Beat jackpot
Comp rate: $1 per hour
Rake: 10 percent of pot, up to $5; no additional promo rake
Extras: Cell-phone charging station, free wifi; tournaments scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, with cash games starting afterward; cash games are 1-2 No Limit Hold ’Em, differentiated with buy-in ranges of $40 to $100, $50 to $200, and $100 to $300.
Trivia: “Akwesasne” means “Land where the partridge drums.”
About the property: Opened in 1999; casino has more than 1,600 slot machines and about 30 table games, plus a 540-seat bingo hall; hotel has 150 rooms, spa, fitness center and RV park.

Over the last two months of 2019, Brock Wilson has accomplished what many poker players dream to accomplish over an entire year, or perhaps even an entire career.

Wilson went on a heater of epic proportions. He cashed 10 times, made five final tables, and chopped two $25,000 buy-in high roller tournaments heads-up. In just two months, the New York-native cashed for more than $1 million.

November started innocently enough with a ninth-place finish in a $600 no-limit hold’em at the World Series of Poker Circuit at Choctaw Casino in Oklahoma for $2,517, but the month ended on a high note. He chopped the $25,000 partypoker Millions Bahamas super high roller with Adrian Mateos for $619,536 and then cashed in the stop’s $10,000 main event for another $30,000 just a few days later.

December picked up right where November ended, with another chop in a $25,000 tournament. He chopped the high roller at the Rock N’ Roll Poker Open at Seminole Hard Rock in South Florida with Bryn Kenney for another $301,215. Less than a week later, he won a $10,000 high roller in Los Angeles for $131,665 and final tabled the WSOP Circuit Bicycle Casino main event, finishing fifth for $37,115.

“As poker players, we’re all very competitive, so it takes a lot of the pressure off,” said Wilson about his string of scores to end the year. “Honestly, I put a lot of pressure on myself too because I’ve spent my entire year and a half [as a pro], every single day. Playing and studying, playing and studying… So it just feels relieving that a lot of the time and effort I put in was worth it.”

At just 25 years old, Wilson is starting to break through from the mid-stakes tournaments he has been grinding over the last few years and into some of the game’s biggest buy-ins. The six-figure scores help alleviate some of the fears that Wilson’s family may have had when he quit his job to play poker for a living.

“From a family perspective, my mom isn’t a huge fan of poker,” said Wilson. “So seeing these really big numbers, even though I explained to her I don’t get all the money, you know, it’s just… it’s just really cool.”

Before his seven-figure upswing to end 2019, Wilson had already experienced a fair amount of success. At the start of November, the Fordham University graduate amassed about $700,000 in career tournament earnings coming mostly in mid-stakes tournaments.

But there’s a big difference between a $1,700 WSOP Circuit main event and a $25,000 buy-in sitting across from some of the game’s most feared players. Aside from a cash in the 2019 PokerStars Players Championship, which doesn’t have the same caliber of player as in any other $25,000 buy-in, he had never cashed in a tournament with a buy-in that large.

The first time he played a buy-in that big was in Florida in 2018. His first table featured Stephen Chidwick and Jake Schindler. He didn’t cash the event, but after a few hands went his way, he gained some confidence. He realized that, contrary to popular belief, these guys can’t see your cards.

“I ran a big bluff and it worked,” said Wilson about his first high roller event. “And I was like ‘Wow, okay. So these guys are kind of just human too.’ They have sick results and everything, but you know, it’s cool.”

Ultimately, the main takeaway from losing $25,000 in one tournament was that he wasn’t severely outmatched.

“It didn’t quite feel like I was doing super well, but I kind of felt like ‘Okay. I can do this.’ I ran a big bluff. I made a thin value bet. It wasn’t as intimidating as when I had to go and take $25,000 and register with it. Once I sat down, you’re just kind of playing.”

Considering his closest friends in poker, it’s not a surprise that Wilson is one of poker’s next breakout candidates.

Wilson is part of a pack of up-and-coming young poker pros who are seemingly poised to become the game’s next big stars. He is close friends with Ali Imsirovic, who won the Poker Masters purple jacket in 2018 at just 23 years old, Stephen Song, who won a World Series of Poker bracelet this past summer, Adam Hendrix, who has seven figures in tournament earnings, as well as a couple other established young pros.

Growing up in the New York City suburbs, Wilson began making the four-hour trip north to Turning Stone Casino once he turned 18. While the rest of the casinos in the northeast force patrons to be 21 or older to gamble, Turning Stone is the one casino in New York that allows those 18 and older gamble.

It was during one of these trips that he made those contacts and built a network that would allow him to grow as a player.

“I met a kid, a friend, at Turning Stone who was about my age,” said Wilson. “We were only 18 years old and he was like ‘Hey, so you’re all into this game theory stuff. You should talk to my other friend, Ali. He really likes it.’ He goes ‘I think it’s stupid, but he likes it, so you should talk to him.’ I was like ‘Give me his number.’ I just reached out to him and I started talking to him just online because he lived way across the country.”

The two began talking strategy in 2015 and met at the 2016 WSOP. Through Imsirovic, Wilson met Song and the rest of his current poker buddies. And with a network in place, and a bunch of sharp minds to bounce ideas off of, the group as a whole began to crush the competition.

“I started talking to the other guys as well and all in all, I thought they looked at the game similarly,” said Wilson. “We could learn from one another. Steven [Song] is really good at exploitative stuff, whereas I’ll spend more time looking at theory. We each bring something to the table. Ali is just better than all of us. The other friends, we all have something that we’re better at, so we collaborate and it’s mutually beneficial for everyone.”

Merging all the different styles is what it takes to succeed at the highest stakes available. Even among the best in the high rollers, there are plenty of differences in style. While most of the field is working with solvers and basing most of their decisions on what is game theory optimal [GTO], there is still success to be had just from an immense amount of natural talent.

“A guy like Bryn Kenney doesn’t really use solvers,” said Wilson. “I’ve seen him play a good amount where he’ll just shove on guys and I’m like ‘Man, this is a pretty sick spot.’ Some of his plays, I think work near 100 percent. Because he just has a really good feel for what the guy has and what they’ll do with it.”

Wilson doesn’t consider himself to be someone with a ton of natural talent. A self-described ‘overstudier’ in school, he takes the same approach to poker.

“I’m not fully sure what you’re up to,” he said. “So I’m going to just fall back on a fundamentally strong strategy… Say I’m risking one to win one. I know this needs to work about 50 percent of the time, but I know with my removal, it might work 60 percent of the time. And then I’ll make money doing that and I usually fall back on that.”

‘Naturally talented’ is a somewhat vague term, but Wilson kind of views it as a way to describe players who are able to make quick and accurate range assumptions without digging too much into the numbers.

“They’ll be able to sit at a table and have a really good feel for ‘Oh, you should bet this because he’s only going to call this much’ or ‘Oh if you shove here, he’s never calling.’ Whereas I’m sitting there, I don’t really know if I shove what he’s going to do. I have an idea combinatorically what he can have. I just don’t have a really good natural feel,” said Wilson.

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After graduating high school in 2012, Wilson went on to study finance at Fordham in the Bronx. He continued playing poker throughout his college years and earned his first career tournament cash in 2013 at Turning Stone.

He found a bunch of success playing online at America’s Cardroom and as his college years were winding down, he found himself torn between pleasing his family and heading into the banking sector or following his passion and pursuing poker as a career.

Ultimately, he took a job in Manhattan with Bank of America. It didn’t last long. While Wilson was playing mid-stakes tournaments as a weekend warrior, his friends went pro and were traveling the world.

In 2018, Song made a World Poker Tour final table at Borgata in Atlantic City and Wilson had 10 percent of him. He took off from work and headed down to Atlantic City to sweat the action. Song busted sixth for $138,254, but after the tournament was over, his friends were headed to Montreal for another tournament, while Wilson was headed back to Manhattan.

“The final table was on a Thursday, so that Friday, as I’m about to take a bus back to Manhattan to go to work, they’re all gearing up to go to Montreal for the partypoker $10K. I was just like ‘God, this is so tough. This is really difficult,” he said about struggling with his decision on whether or not to quit his job and play professionally.

Wilson had some close calls playing tournaments at regional casinos but wanted to make a big score before he took the leap. In the end, seeing his friends have both so much fun and success was just too much for him not to take a chance himself.

“I made back-to-back-to-back final tables in two Foxwoods tournaments and a Parx tournament,” said Wilson. “And I got tenth, ninth and eighth. I lost with pocket kings all in preflop each of the three times. I thought I needed to win something before I do this. It didn’t happen, but I said ‘Fuck it, I’m leaving anyway.’”

Just before the 2018 WSOP, Wilson quit his job and headed to Las Vegas to play a full slate of events. Had one hand gone differently at the WSOP two years prior, Wilson may have never taken the job, to begin with.

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“In 2016, right before I started my job, I had made a deal with my mom that if I final tabled a WSOP event, I wouldn’t have to go work at a bank,” said Wilson. “I was second in chips in a WSOP $1,500 event and David Williams was third in chips and we each go in 80 big blinds each under the gun versus under the gun +1 where I had pocket kings and he had J-9 offsuit. He won for just under a final table average stack with 50 left. I joke with my friends that that hand set my life back two years. I would’ve just gone pro then and not worked for two years.”

That’s all in the past and he is well on his way to more success in the future. And if his future goes as planned, the poker world will be seeing much more of Brock Wilson.

“I really love poker. I’m going to be playing for a really long time,” said Wilson. “I’m going to play a lot of WPT events and then selectively play bigger.”

Wilson plans on moving from New York to Vegas in 2020 so that he can save some money on income taxes and play bigger stakes. He sold some action to the two six-figure scores he had, but he didn’t go out and make any extravagant purchases. He kept that money to pad his bankroll and take bigger pieces of himself in the future and help him achieve his goal of playing higher.

How much bigger? Quite a bit.

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“My goal is to be doing well enough to play the Super High Roller Bowl in May.”

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