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Encore Boston Poker Room Pictures

Boston needed Encore, its blinging 10 carat diamond in our tiny pave diamond little city. Boston is full of history and beauty, but Vegas-style glitz has never been its forte. So Encore is a refreshing change from the Irish dive bars and chain restaurants that speckle the city. A schedule of Encore Boston Harbor poker tournaments, including time, buy-in, blind structure, and more. You also can find Encore Boston Harbor phone number, address, and website info.

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EVERETT, MASS. (WHDH) - A water leak in an Encore Boston Harbor poker room prompted an evacuation of the area Friday afternoon.

Cellphone video shows water pouring down from the ceiling and people running away. Poker players said a tournament had just started when the waterfalls began, and gamblers in the packed room quickly fled.

“We sat down for poker and all of a sudden there was chaos, people running,” said poker player Nathan Abbott. “I looked up and water was coming from four or five different spots.”

“All of a sudden, like, it’s raining from the ceiling,” said poker player Nicole Straight. “I was like, ‘I better get my chips because who knows, chips are cash.'”

Straight said the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas will have artistic flourishes inside, and initially she thought this might be a similar event.

“I said wait, this is actually water falling down here, this is not a water feature,” Straight joked.

A spokesperson says the leak was isolated and has since been contained.

Unaffected areas of the poker room were re-opened at 7:45 p.m.

The leak has no impact on any other part of the building.

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The cause of the leak remains under investigation.

This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

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The Encore Boston Harbor casino-resort opens at 10 a.m. on Sunday, June 23, after years of planning, construction, and not a little controversy. Its official address is 1 Broadway in Everett.

Here is more on eastern Massachusetts’ largest recreational gambling hub by the numbers, according to Wynn Resorts, the Las Vegas-based company behind it.

Total square-footage. The entire property runs to 3 million square feet, including the casino, the hotel portion, the outdoor space, the grounds, etc.

Landscaping. The complex unfolds over 33 acres. There will be 800 trees more than 15 feet tall, 105,000 shrubs, and 61,000 flowers. There will be 115,000 square feet of patterned brick and 50,000 square feet of synthetic turf. A 44,000-gallon irrigation tank system will help water the landscaping via roof drainage.

Casino. It will be 210,000 square feet. There will be 3,158 slot machines, 143 table games, 88 poker tables, 231 table games total, and 60 high-limit slots, including two private rooms within the high-limit slots with three machines in each room.

Conference and meeting space. There will 50,000 square feet of it total, and include 10 breakout rooms and a 37,000-square-foot grand ballroom.

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Spa. It will be 26,000 square feet, and include 17 treatment rooms, six stylist stations, two pedicure stations, four manicure tables, two makeup stations, four shampoo stations, and one barber station.

Hotel. There will be 671 guest rooms and suites. They will range in size from 650 square feet to 5,800 square feet. Wynn Resorts notes that the average size of a New England hotel room is 250 square feet. The thread count on the linen will be 507. The fitness center will be 3,648 square feet.

Restaurants and other eateries. The casino-resort will host 15 food and beverage options, including four independently owned places.

Shops. There will be five: Wynn Collection, Wynn Mens, Wynn Beauty, the Drugstore, and Watches of Switzerland.

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Outdoor space. There will 26,000 square feet of it available to guests, hotel and otherwise.

Carousel. The casino-resort’s merry-go-round will have 10 horses, 83,000 flowers, and 11,000 jewels.

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Ferries. What Wynn is calling the Encore Premium Harbor Shuttle is expected to take 28,393 trips per year via four vessels, ferrying riders from locations at the World Trade Center in the Seaport District and Long Wharf on the downtown Boston waterfront to the resort.

Employees. A small army of 5,500 is expected to service the Encore Boston Harbor.

Special mirror. The Encore Boston Harbor will include one mirror from the original Desert Inn Hotel in Las Vegas, which is now the site of Wynn Resorts’ flagship Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Las Vegas.

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