Six Players Want $10/$10 PLO at Encore Boston Harbor. Zero Tables Are Open.

Six players at Encore Boston Harbor want to play $10/$10 pot-limit Omaha, and the room can't — or won't — open a single table.

As of the evening of May 24, Bravo shows a waitlist of six names for the $10/$10 PLO game in Everett, Massachusetts — with exactly zero tables running. That's a 6:0 ratio, making it the most lopsided phantom list at any major northeastern card room on this snapshot.

Six names deep for a $10/$10 PLO game, zero tables open — the most lopsided phantom list at any major northeastern card room.

What a Phantom List Tells You

A "phantom list" is a waitlist with no corresponding table. Players sign up, the interest is logged on Bravo, and yet no game materializes. The median waitlist for this game at Encore Boston Harbor sits at just one name. Six is an outlier — six times the median, to be exact.

The question is whether Encore lacks the dealers, the floor staff, the table space, or the institutional appetite to spread a game at this level. $10/$10 PLO is not a recreational stakes game. Minimum buy-ins at this level typically start north of $1,000, and effective stacks at a full table can push well past $10,000. The room clearly has demand. What it doesn't have is supply.

Why This Matters Beyond Boston

Encore Boston Harbor is the flagship card room in the Northeast's most regulated poker market. Massachusetts has a limited number of gaming licenses, and Encore's poker room is one of the only spreads in the state. When a room of this profile can't convert six interested players into a single open table for a high-stakes PLO game, it signals something structural — not a one-off scheduling hiccup.

For PLO players in the region, the options are thin. Drive south to Connecticut's tribal casinos or make the trip to a New York-area club. Neither is a short commute from greater Boston. That makes Encore's inability to open this game more than a curiosity — it's a bottleneck for an entire player pool.

The Numbers, Stripped Down

• Game: $10/$10 Pot-Limit Omaha
• Location: Encore Boston Harbor, Everett, MA
• Waitlist: 6 players
• Tables running: 0
• Waitlist-to-table ratio: 6:0 (undefined — no denominator)
• Median waitlist for this game: 1

Six players isn't a massive crowd. But for a game at this stake level, in this market, with this ratio, it's the clearest demand signal a room can ignore.