Any restaurant, bar, starbucks. Not at the gift shop, not to be applied to room charges, not for Mystere, not for the spa.

Is this promo still running?

yes

It's still running, but I don't think it is having the effect on the room that was hoped. I played 30+ hours the first week of the promo in January just to see what it was like and found games were running 24/7 most of the week, albeit made up mostly of local grinders. I understand that 9 players that week actually made it to 60 hours.

Due to travel and other priorities, I hadn't made it back to the room until last week when I once again put in 30+ hours. However, I found a completely different experience. Games were no longer running through the night. Once the last game ended, the room shut down and did not reopen until 10 the next next morning. However, the only action in the morning was a low buy-in tourney. Cash games usually didn't get started until early to mid afternoon, and then would run short-handed throughout the day. On the positive side, TI will clock you in so that you earn comps while sitting at a table waiting for a game to begin. I once sat with a couple of other guys for over three hours during which time we managed to play about 30-45 minutes of poker when a 4th player would show up and lose his $100 buyin.

As evening approached, the games got better and two tables would actually fill up with a waiting list of one or two additional players waiting to play. I did notice several more tourists playing during this past week then had been playing back in January. I believe that only one or two players made it to 60 this past week. And I'm not aware of any that reached 40 or 50hrs, but I was looking at a roster that delineated everyone's earned times up through 5:30 on Saturday, so its possible that they eventually made it. I had over 27 hours by early Thursday evening, but didn't go back until Saturday night at 8:00pm to squeeze in my last 3 hours before the midnight deadline.

I probably won't make a concerted effort to go back and pile up the hours (30/wk is a lot for me). I'd rather return to my old haunts of Wynn or Red Rock, Besides, although most of the dealers are great,there is one dealer at TI who I consider to be a dick to the players and I don't want to put up with his downs anymore. He spent one complete down chastizing a female player who had folded out of turn a couple of times. The first time he sat down at my table he chastized me because he didn't like where my chips were stacked, (even though they had been in the exact same place just off my right elbow the entire week.) I stared at him for a couple of minutes, said you've got to be kidding, and then I just got up and walked away from the table for 30 minutes. Upon my return, I penalized him on his next down by not providing any tips for pots I dragged, (After that one down, I went back to my usual practice of tipping for any pot won, even one without a flop. I thought the one down penalty was sufficient.)

But my bottom line is that I'm going back to playing where I am most comfortable, where the dealers are all great, the cocktail waitresses are all smoking and efficient, the drinks are good, and the poker is fun.

Thanks for the info.

MSUspartan4,

Do you still offer a poker rate $79 week/$99 weekend? If so,is it available March 23-25th?

Thanks

Craig

The poker rate varies each week/weekend. Call our marketing people at 702-894-7222 to check rates for specific days, and also to book the room.

Thanks!

Troy

Troy,

Thank You

Craig

there's one dealer there that's really bad, the rest are all good. we're probably talking about the same one.

FWIW I'm in the process of finding out the bad apple and fixing it. If anyone who reads this thread has any issues with anything related to the TI poker room, please PM me so that I can address any issues, including dealers to make it better for everyone else.

Thanks!

Troy

PM sent

When is the promo going to end?

what is the rake like in TI? and can you give weekly average of tables how they are doing.
Is there anyone doing this promo for the past 3 months, since it began? How is that going for you?

Rake:
$1 at $10
$1 at $20
$1 at $30
$1 at $100

Jackpot rake:
$1 at $10
$1 at $30

Comps: $2 per hour

We reduce rake at 6 players or less.
On weekends the games usually go 24/7. During the week, the first game starts at 11am and runs until at least 5am. Weekdays usually 2 games going, weekends 4. The promo has brought solid participation and hopefully will continue to improve as we just added free WiFi and have another great promotion lined up for April. Details to come next week.

We have no plans to end this anytime soon.