Nine Deep for $25/$25 PLO at Encore Boston Harbor — Zero Tables Open

Nine players signed up for $25/$25 pot-limit Omaha at Encore Boston Harbor late on the night of May 22, and nobody got dealt in.

The Bravo snapshot, captured just after 2 a.m. ET on May 23, showed a clean zero in the tables column next to a waitlist nine names long. That's $25/$25 PLO — a game where a single buy-in can clear five figures and a full table moves six figures an hour. At a Wynn-branded property in Everett, Massachusetts, nine players raised their hands and the room didn't open a seat.

Nine names on the $25/$25 PLO list, zero tables open — the most expensive ghost game in New England.

What the Numbers Say

Encore Boston Harbor's median waitlist for this game sits at four players. Nine is 2.25 times that median — a surge that, at most rooms, would have a floor manager dragging a fresh table onto the floor within minutes.

But this isn't a $1/$3 no-limit game where you pull a spare dealer and drop a rack of reds. $25/$25 PLO requires dedicated staff, specific chip denominations, and — in Massachusetts — regulatory guardrails that don't flex at midnight. The gap between demand and supply here isn't about interest. It's about infrastructure.

Why $25/$25 PLO Matters

For context, $25/$25 PLO is among the biggest regularly listed cash games on Bravo anywhere in New England. This isn't a $2/$5 holdout. This is a game where a minimum buy-in likely starts at $2,500 and many players sit deeper. Nine players willing to put that kind of money on the table at 2 a.m. tells you something about the appetite at Encore.

It also tells you something about the room's constraints. Encore runs a large poker operation by Northeast standards, but high-stakes PLO has always been a scheduling puzzle. The game needs enough willing players at the same time, a dealer comfortable with pot-limit action at that level, and a floor willing to open the table. On this particular snapshot, demand cleared every bar except the last one.

The Bigger Picture

Phantom waitlists — players queued for a game that isn't running — are one of the more underappreciated signals in live poker. They represent verifiable, real-time demand that went unmet. At the $25/$25 level, each name on that list represents a player ready to put serious money into play.

Encore Boston Harbor isn't a small room. It's a Wynn Resorts property with one of the busiest poker operations on the East Coast. When nine players line up for a $25/$25 PLO game and the table never opens, the question isn't whether the demand exists.

It's why the supply didn't show up.