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Originally Posted by Temujen
Just becuase you disagree with it and that majority of us hates it doesnt mean it doesnt it happen.
If it doesnt happen then I guess you call tell Mike Wolfe he is full of sh$t. He is a pro player as well as writes for some poker magazines. I dont remember the details but to me if a floor men had to be tipped to get preferential treatment then its all the same. We can complain all we want but how often do people actually sit around keeping tract of the list or the order of those people looking to change tables? As to the bigplayers the casinos dont reallycareto much about them in terms of poker. The poker rooms bread and butter are from the low stakes after all the rakes are the same with the high stakes at least at the casinos that I have played in. In the low stakes especially in LHE players can last longer and as time goes by the only winner is the house who will rake all the money if no one re-buys in a 6-8 hour period.
i dunno who mike wolfe is, im sure he has seen it, but its not common practice, ive been in vegas for 6 years and played live every day since black friday, only once can i remember even thinking i may have got jumped but the floor (at aria) told me they had put the guy on the wrong list, i probably got lied to but once in 1000+ times of playing isnt much, and maybe he did just get put on the wrong list
i could see it at bellagio cuz that room is run terribly, could even see it at aria but if you called them on it your gonna get your seat most likely
and yes i check where im at on the list, and when i ask for a table change i find out if anyone is ahead of me for the tables i want to go to, usually im the only one that has requested a change there and i pay attention to make sure i get my seat, i mostly play at venetian and have never caught them giving my seat to anyone else, and im not a good tipper
im sure there are rare occasions where it happens, but its certainly not commonplace or i would have caught them many times by now (i change tables constantly when i play so no one has time to realize im a nit)
you say the casinos dont care about the poker players and your basically right, but that big spender fish whose just playing poker for a bit is likely someone the casino cares very much about because he also plays in the pit, thats the exact type of person they really dont want to piss off because if they do he may take his action elsewhere