Same as it ever was, same as it ever was......

It has been pretty much like that since the day it opened. Unless there is some other reason than your complaints, the room ain't gonna die soon, but feel free to stay away.

Seriously. "no black chips play at 1-2", "dealer says, "only English", can't sit backwards in chair, ..... "oh my God, the horror"!!! The room has a great, open layout with a high ceiling, comfortable attractive visual setting, plenty of sports traffic and tourist flow right past the front, loose games, good cocktail servers, and good dealers generally.

(I do agree about the past management, who while friendly enough in conversation had a ton of rules which inhibited "fun". That seems to have relaxed a bit.)

The Luxor room was great! Fast drink service, very friendly dealers and floor staff. It was my “home room” in Vegas from 2013 til it closed and I’m still really sad about it. Last time I was in town I stopped by the property and got depressed seeing all these slot machines sitting empty in the room at 8pm.

Sadly MGM made a decision not based on the quality of the room or its long term potential but on the fact that MB has a consistent stream of large conventions that cycle in new idiots who want to wander down after meetings or group dinners to have their “Rounders” moment.

Ugh, yes it’s visually a nice room but what a life suck that hole is.

The Luxor was the very first poker room I played at in Vegas. They had that rule where you could buy in for $300 I believe, but if you dropped below; even $1, you could add on $100. It was full of tourists; myself included, and just a ton of fun. I played there again a couple years later and the vibe was the same and the atmosphere was festive.

Agreed. Luxor atmosphere was so much nicer in terms of staff and people. Generally the games were fun for tourists. Kinda sad how not many locals went there

Supra is reminding me of a trip in about 2015 where I went to play Colossus and played cash at Luxor because most of the big rooms had 100+ person waiting list. I was playing sitting backwards, drunk on endless rum and cokes with about $800 in front of me and being generally silly. A middle aged couple and their son replaced a couple of people who moved on to the pits.

These new additions were clearly locals and one of the most miserable looking families I have ever seen. Worst of all the parents were berated fishy tourist at the table who were outplaying their son who was absolutely horrible at the game (they were also sucky and had clearly taught him how to suck too.)

I ended up calling off the Dad’s short stack with bottom set on a flop where he made Top/Top with AxKx. The Dad muttered some bullcrap and I said something about locals being miserable people who ruin fun for people trying to enjoy life, it was a real buzzkill.

I remember thinking that most locals not coming to Luxor was one of the best traits of the room. The local nits at rooms like Harrahs absolutely ruin that room for any kind of fun/casual play so to locals I say beeyoft

I think some of those are good things. Other rooms have the same rules about not talking about promos when it’s sb vs. bb. Other rooms also have English only rules; some dealers will just enforce it more than others so it might have been a dealer issue instead of a room issue in your case, and I often like it when the dealer does their job and enforces that. And personally I hate black chips in a 1-2 game. I’ve seen way too many players have hidden black chips behind their stack and not every room will allow those chips at the table either.

#6 isn’t about a room having strict rules either. Worst case scenario is the dealer was being a dick.

#2 is weird but it’s not a big deal IMO.

They used to be much more strict with rules but I don’t think that is the case today.

It was classic marketing and a perfect study in game theory. You the customer and them the corporation would both be better off if they were just part of the price as they once were but once one hotel chain did it they all had too. People look at a tv priced at $999 and a tv at $1,000 and virtually all of them see the difference as exponentially more than $1. People are ****ing idiots and marketing genius use that to make everything ultimately suck a little bit more than it has to be. (Oh and getting older does that too).

This isn't quite right, because what the hotels and airlines dick around with isn't the price per se but the service.

It'd be more like a $999 TV where the cord is not included so there's a $200 cord fee, compared to a $1,300 TV where the cord is included and that has a $100 rebate offer. When the search sites just list the nominal price for differing products, the difference appears to be $400 ($999 gets rounded down to $900 in peoples' minds, which is why people think $999 is so much less than $1,000).

Yeah the tv thing wasn't an analogy to resort fees just another way a marketing ploy was genius for 6 months but ultimately just made the world a little crappier.

You can get Diamond by getting a credit card called FoundersCard. Here's a post about it:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=1814

Just FYI, FC is not a credit card, it's a membership-based "club" that provides a combination of discounts and access to loyalty programs that is generally geared toward business travelers.

I suspect if you were to carry the actual FC card with you, it would get confiscated by TSA

I'm 52 and haven't been to Vegas since 2014 and this is after being obsessed with the place since I was 8 years old and having my first trip there when I was 18 and going almost every year since. Once I got the poker bug, I'd go for 2 weeks+ during the WSOP starting in 1994 and almost every year until 2014. I was obsessed with poker prior to the boom, the mystery of it all and especially the characters involved and the seedy aspect of it. I'd fly to Atlantic City, NYC, Vegas, drive to Shreveport just to get a fix. I even bought a van and traveled the country for 4 months back in the late 90's with the plan of trying to go pro in Vegas playing limit poker (lol, I lasted about 4 weeks before I threw in the towel and gave up on the pipe dream).

While I still enjoy watching, I dont enjoy it as much because the way to become good these days typically ends up with bookish, anti-social types rising to the top whereas the old school guys had to be social, quick witted, street smart, entertaining to play as well as being good at the game. I found guys like Puggy Pearson, Amarillo Slim, etc to be fascinating characters, don't seem to see folks like these anymore. I have an appreciation, albeit different, for the best players today, I just don't find them as alluring or entertaining but perhaps I've crossed the fuddy-duddy line and thats just me getting old.

Poker seems like a pretty futile pursuit as well. The time and effort required to eek out a small edge doesn't seem worth the time and if you're young and have the ability to succeed in poker, I think you're wasting your talents that could be much better used and far better compensated in some other endeavor whereas 20 years ago, the sky seemed to be the limit.

I still harbor the dream that someday I might win a bracelet AND a million bucks to go with it.

OTOH if I give up poker for good, I can spend that bankroll on foolish things!

I hope you do my friend, I used to think I could bink one myself but I've fallen so behind and the one advantage I had, patience, is all but gone and probably not that valuable anymore anyway. Damn, I miss the buzz I used to get from playing the game

I'm pretty sure Id be better off playing the slots in an attempt to win a progressive jackpot vs trying to bink a tourney with a big pay day

Hey, that's what I can use my poker bankroll for!

I throw a twenty or two in a Megabucks machine ($10+ million jackpot) on every visit. And while a million isn't going to happen, a couple hundred grand is within possibility on video poker. I check leon's thread 10 times a day.

Or at the very least a few hundred thousand coin in, right!?

... which will get you a lot of "free" buffets, rooms, and drinks.

lol, me too! I couldn't handle those swings, I'm a BAD loser and would lose my mind if I got down $10K+, hell who am I kidding, a $1K loss would start the tilt

I'm glad I can live vicariously through Leon tho

Come on you guys, dude has a dream of being a Vegas hundredthousandaire. In the movie adaptation of their story you can hear them sing,

There was a time when cards were kind
Their voices were soft
Their shuffles inviting
There was a time when comps were blind
Vegas was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And games worth playing
I dreamed that limit would never die
I dreamed the flop would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
My dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no jackpot to be paid
No song unsung
No wine untasted

But the book types come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
As they turn your dream to shame

I'm pretty good about losing (practice makes perfect) because I never take a dollar to Vegas without being okay about losing it. Way back when I used to bet way too much sports, and have hopefully learned from that. I won't be happy about losing a gambling roll, but I consider it "risk capital", and putting it at risk is what it's for.

Like!

Good attitude, I'm just a tight ass

You are definitely not a fuddy-duddy, I think everyone feels this way. The old school gamblers were way more interesting than the big players today. I think there are still players who are entertaining and fun to play with today, but they're all in private or pseudo-private games. Jean Robert Bellande is an example of this.

This

since you feel this same, if you have PokerGo, check out these two replays:

Poker After Dark|Under The Gun|Days 1 and 2

it was the best poker show I've seen in years

It had JRB, Jennifer Tilly, Helmuth, Eli Elezra and some good amateurs that were throwing a lot of money around

Good action and fun hands plus some good banter