my assessment is/was same as JB's. Game is fine, but experience sucks so for me overall it's weird and it sucks - not going back ever till this **** is done with.

I played yesterday and I didn't mind the plexi. The "bay" was spacious and actually made me feel safer as I knew there weren't airborne particles coming my way from other players.

If it means players and staff don't get sick at the poker table then I'm all for it. And yes, I realize the chips may be "dirty", but I can control not touching my face. I can't control someone breathing on me, so the plexi is welcome.

I called in to play at Bellagio at 5pm. When I get to Bellagio security tells me only hotels guests and Noir guests can park in the self parking garage.

That works for me...

Parking is free for all when I went to Bellagio at midnight. I think rake was $4 max for 6 handed, $3 for 5 handed and $2 for 4 or less. Here is my poker room trip report.

Nice VLOG! Any insight on cocktail waitresses over your 2 hours?

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Interesting conclusion by Boski .... "I do not see this", which I took to mean live poker with plexiglass and masks, " being a sustainable model for the poker rooms".

He seemed to draw the conclusion from the difficulty of any social interaction, which IS a large part of playing live for a significant portion of the market. I think with a better fitting mask, he might feel differently, but his take is interesting,

In contrast, the games at SouthPoint, 5 handed with masks but without plexiglass, seem to have retained the social dynamic pretty well when I've been over there.

Unfortunately, all this may become moot for live poker should the virus rates climb, as I expect, further hitting both the tourist industry generally and disposable income for recreational players.

Swung into the Venetian and Bellagio on Sat evening. Saw many familiar faces, and spoke to some regulars I have gotten to know casually over the years.

The consensus was pots are playing smaller, with many try hards and grinders waiting for a cooler for stacks. They said it seems recs are stopping by the podium and looking around, but are commenting they don't want to play "short handed."

I think it will be quite awhile before Vegas games rebound.

May as well just play slots or a pit game if everyone is waiting to cooler each other, while slowly bleeding away from the rake.

Thanks for the review in your vlog Boski. It answered my biggest concern about the plexi which was it seemed like it'd be hard to interact with everyone in general but also being able to hear the dealer or other players in a hand. Seems like a bad experience for a fun rec player like myself but I'm sure I'll find out first hand shortly enough.

I drove to the strip to play at Bellagio and parked at MGM. Tactical blunder. Probably worth the money to not have to wade thru that sea of unwashed humanity.

Same here. I prefer 9 handed. 7 handed is my cut-off; below that point I won't play.

That parking strategy makes no sense, son.

I'm an idiot.

Please tell me people aren’t chopping blinds playing five handed

i saw quite a bit of this at venetian.

Yes they are. I played at both Bellagio and CP over the weekend, 6 and 5 handed. Most of the time we were at least a person short due to filling seats or guys just off wandering around so we played 3-5 handed majority of the time. Didn't like it. Won't play until at least 7 handed minimum.

This is tempting if they could get anything going at 30/60L+ or 10/20NL+. There's few of the regs at mid/bottom of high stakes that I think stand even a vague chance 3-5 handed. Of course maybe people are self selecting out of short handed play or moving down and the people left have more gumption... who knows.

I have zero health concerns, but mask annoyance may make the whole thing sort of silly.

The magic words are "I don't chop". If people want to resolve hands you're not in faster, by all means let them.

You've been consistently wrong on this position - indisputably if measured by hospitalizations or deaths. Positive tests are up and down all over the place depending on number of tests done of course.

How long do you intend to continue being wrong before changing your opinion? And if the answer is you intend to stick it out, do you have any interest in betting on say number of hospitalized patients?

I played at Bellagio this weekend... briefly.

- Can confirm people are nitting it up 6-handed waiting to cooler each other. The average person is not going to be splashing it up when the environment feels like a surgical theater.

- The plexiglass "bay" you get sitting at the table is kind of awesome at first. More personal space, can leave your phone flat on the table, the plexiglass definitely gives a feeling of separation from your seat neighbor way more than I was expecting from pictures.

- Overall the game quality at both of my tables was terrible, again I would hypothesize because the atmosphere in there is not conducive to gambling, it feels incredibly degen to play under these conditions and it was really hard to shake that fact. I was visiting Vegas once per month pre-covid, but probably won't be back now until we're in more of a state of normalcy.

What exactly has he been wrong about? Seven states have just reported their highest coronavirus hospitalizations since the pandemic began. And the trend is going up, not down.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...ve-updates-us/

Here in South Florida, hospitalizations are exploding. As of yesterday, June 23rd, 1,629 patients with COVID-19 were being treated at SoFla hospitals, compared with 1,112 on June 1st. That's a 46% increase in the past three weeks.

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronav...ewm-story.html

Wtf are you talking about? The most redneck states are 100% seeing a bounceback. It seems like its you who is determined to keep being wrong.

Coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths are going down nationwide, not up. Media hysteria, however, only goes one direction - up.

I will happily bet that July has fewer hospitalizations than June either nation wide, or since this is LVL in Clark Co, NV at 1:1. Let me know if you're interested.

And to the clown who said it had something to do with "rednecks" I assume by that you mean CA, which is the state having the most trouble