Did the super bad beat hit (and get paid )? I don't see it listed on Bravo any more.

It got hit in a 3-5 game ~5 days ago. Royal v. Quads.

Thanks Howard. Much appreciated.

Please don't post about non-famous people in LCP. Thanks.

The posts I was going to respond to got ninja deleted. I still have a question, tho.

Is the host in the mix game(s) responsible for game selection and/or establishing the blinds?

I thought there were 2 hosts to be honest but I don't play they mixed games

The games are chosen when the game starts, they aren't the same every day. The blinds / structure of games I am sure is written in the room somewhere. But if there is a discrepancy about the ante size or something then either all players agree or a floor makes a ruling. I would say most regular players would prefer to let the host in question make a ruling instead of calling a floor because he is very knowledgeable and ethical. But he has no authority other than his opinion which is often accepted.

Thanks, DD. That's pretty much what I thought.

Can you can use comp dollars for slots?

Concert them to cash then use them for anything

Bloody hell you can convert them to cash? Seems like an awful policy from the casinos perspective, but I ain't complaining!

Is anyone else having trouble with youtube in the Arena lately?

Yes!

I chalked it up to my POS phone/service, but found it strange that it seems to work when I disconnect from their wifi. I'm using PokerAudio btw. Haven't tried switching to talkingstick yet.

5 handed must move tonight. Short stack wins a pot, then realizes he's next to move and sits out, refusing to take a blind. Soon after nitty former dealer decides she doesn't want to play 4 handed and leaves for 8-16 game. Another player walks not wanting to play three handed. While he's away a new player shows up but doesn't want to play 3 handed and next to move refuses to post blind. The walker doesn't return quickly so the new player leaves, and the two who had been playing quit and go home.

Yet another game broken by the floors refusal to move players with their missed blind buttons. Players sit out and wait to take their free hands in the next game, and sometimes quit without taking a blind there either. Other rooms get this right, its sad that Talking Stick does not. It not only makes playing the must moves more dangerous, but costs the house money. One of most frustrating aspects to an otherwise well run room.

I'm not quite understanding what's going on from your description. If the player refuses to take a blind, and the floor won't move him with a missed blind button, then how does he ever make it to the main game for his free hands? How is the situation supposed to unclog, and how does the main game ever get its player? (assuming of course that the must move game continues to run short handed, and that the player will not post.)

There is currently no seat open at the main game.

Missed blinds go away when players are moved, so they can come in for free after sitting out in the must move game.

The only thing I do is if I am next up, I actively look at the game to see if someone left when UTG before posting my BB because the floor isn't always there or attentive.

I'm sorry, but I'm still missing something. You described exactly what I understood the situation to be, and the procedure I would expect in a must move game. What did he mean by this:
What's different here from other rooms?

In other rooms if you miss your blind in a must move, you have to post to get a hand in the main game. At CAZ if you miss a blind in the must move, you can still receive free hands after moving to the main game.

Yea, at CAZ you can play a round, refuse to post blinds, get moved to main game and play another round without posting blinds. It's the cancer that kills must move games.

Earlier this week I walk in, there is no must move game but there are several seats on the table with chips. A player asks me if i'll play, saying the brand new must move just broke, I say let's go. We start a new game 5 handed with one seat occupied by chips, after first hand chip owner shows up. He's a reg who is a well known walker and he plays his free hands (new game you don't have to post) and walks again. And doesn't come back as we play a few rounds.

Then a player is moved, and after winning a big pot the guy who asked me to play declares he won't play 4 handed. But it's 5 handed with walker, he replies I no care. He sits out, other players don't want to play three handed. Game breaks. Seat opens in main game, walker suddenly wants to play again and takes his free hands.

Note that in this case the walker gets three rounds of free hands. Starts two must moves, quits at blinds for both, and then gets free round in main. Essentially everyone else pays extra, so this guy could play for free. Now why should I help start must moves?

Only start them if I am there. We can play HU when everyone wusses out!

And then we force the floor to only move people who are playing and only when 2 seats are open in the main game so we can both go together.

We complained about the guy who wouldn't play 5 handed (since walker should count) and floor moved him to end of list. Tried to get walker moved down but he came back and said no i want to play so he kept his spot on list, but still never posted to come back in. Then after he moved another seat opens, and guy who wouldn't play takes it. Floor says you are at bottom of list now cause you wouldn't play, guy argues and floor lets him have the seat.

OK, thanks for the clarification. It makes sense now. The bolded sentence was throwing me off - it sounded like the floor was refusing to move a player because he had missed his blinds.

It's hard to believe that they wouldn't fix this blind skipping problem, especially with people exploiting it. But I guess you guys have surely tried to address it.

If they make people take missed blind buttons and not take money off the table when they move. It would make it more like a real poker room.
I have had floorman come over tell me its my turn to move. I do not like the line up and feel like quiteing. So I tell floor person I am quitting instead of moving . The floor person says dont you want to go over and take your free round.

They simply don't realize what a cancer it is. In your case the floor didn't understand that they were essentially telling you to steal from the players in the main game.

no one should ever get a free round in any game for any reason. when you enter a game you wait or post.
if in a must move and they want to make it perfect then the person posts or waits until he is in the same situation or position he moved from.

the old days of giving free hands to help start a new game or thinking it attracts a new player is foolish and ruins more games than anything.

one way to help stop free hands is to get the regs that start games to tell the floor they wont unless there are no free hands. if you start games everyone after you gets a free round. figure out what it costs you a year and your eyes will pop.