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Originally Posted by arcdog
Players can always have chips in their pockets or backpacks to reload - I don't get the plastic cup thing.
I love the plastic cup on the table idea. It ensures nobody can steal the chips and you won't misplace them. Pockets are generally not a great place to store chips. I've personally lost $500 chips/lammers this way. The more chips you have in your pocket, the more likely a chip will fall out. You can store more chips more easily in a plastic cup.
I've personally found a $500 chip that I assume dropped out of the player's backpack, perhaps when she was grabbing chips. I returned the chip to the player but the vast majority of poker players will keep any chips they find. I would hope that most of the players wouldn't have backpacks but the plastic cups seem more convenient regardless.
The chip running at Bellagio is far slower than what I am generally accustomed to. I assume this plastic cup thing solves that for a lot of players.
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Originally Posted by madlex
Seeing that the game is 2/5/10, are there still any 5/10/20 and 10/20/40 games at Bellagio or are those guys now playing 5/10 if no 10/20 or 25/50 games are going?
There was a $25/$50 game with a $25k min buyin running at the same time as this game.
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Originally Posted by gobbo
They moved out one table and made it a little more comfortable. It's decent enough but putting it in that corner was a dumb move. Should've been at the table directly adjacent to the sportsbook so that degens could come over and watch the game.
It seems like it's being mismanaged a little bit. I've spoken with people involved and I don't agree with a lot of their choices towards marketing it and the choices they made with the broadcast. But oh well.
Maybe someone should tell the announcer to stop advertising that Bellagio has the best 2/5 players in the world. I heard this on the first broadcast and the test broadcast. Aside from the fact that I don't actually agree with it, this is just a terrible way to market the games. He seems to think recreational players want to play with the best in the world, and I don't think that is the case, particularly with live low stakes players. Many perceive Bellagio as having a lot of nitty staked grinders at the lower levels and this does little to change that perception.