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Originally Posted by Jeffawesome
It's not that I don't like the poker scene. I think the Detroit scene is awesome. I hate the facilites that Detroit poker players have to play in. The casinos are overrated. The dealers/floor don't care, the board people don't know what games are offered or currently running. They all have bad attitudes, and an undeserving sense of entitlement.
The charity rooms are a joke, they have made up rules that don't make any sense. I think the biggest problem I have with the casinos and the charity rooms is that there is no desire to keep a customer happy or keep that customer coming back. I have seen the light and I know there is a better way!!!
What do you think is a better way to keep people happy?
MGM and Greektowns new room I found to be nice in that they're away from busy foot traffic and slot machines. I believe Greektown might even have the nicer room of the three big ones, which is quite impressive considering how ****ty the old place was. If they only moved the cage to insider the room it would be perfect. Motor City while you do have the machines just outside of the room, its still a step up from some places that I've been to where they just plop tables in a roped off area. Plus I like the snack and pop machine right there.
Dealing and floor, I've never had an issue with anyone at Motor City and the floor has its act together. Greektown has been mixed, some really awesome dealers, some disgruntled and some who just don't care. The floor again, no issues at all. I like how all dealers have to wear ear pieces to communicate with the floor and desk. They only run two games 1-2 and 3-6 kill so its not that hard to run, plus I like they're using the players card for comps. MGM my biggest gripe about the place when it first opened was how slow the games were running and being dealt. I can't really comment on how well that place is being run. I also can't stand having that stupid racetrack design table, feels awkward lifting my cards and having stacks of chips on it.
Charity Rooms I won't step foot in another one. Never really felt comfortable with them. I've seen some really awful dealing, I've had dealers deal out the hand and comment on the action, just really poor work. I've seen that at Continental Lanes, Fountain View, and Bennys, which I guess is normal if you deal a home game and see a lot of the same people all the time, I just didn't care for it. Sunnybrook was the only place I sorta enjoyed, but after seeing a lot of roughnecks and hotheads I didn't feel to comfortable there. Had a really bad experience at Snookers with floor rulings, one where the guy who ran the place didn't have the stones to tell a regular to turn over his hand after someone asked to see it after calling his river bet and the reg wanted to muck. Instead the floor guy argued with the other guy for 10 f'n minutes "well you can ask, but its really in poor taste". My final straw with Snookers and Charity Rooms was when I said call to some ones river bet, turned over the nuts, saw the dealer grab my cards thinking he was going to put it by the board to show the other player, but instead mucked it. The only time I've caused a scene in public
"I SAID CALL! I TABLED THE ABSOLUTE NUTS" nope pot went to the other player, sorry it got mucked.
I emailed Matt Savage got his opinion that it was a bad ruling and if he was there given the situation he'd do everything possible to retrieve the hand since I tabled it and everyone saw it. I decided, no more charity rooms, just stick with casinos for live action and home games for when I want dealer chatter and slowness.
Although I have been tempted to do the deep stack tourney at Northville...
I believe a 2+2er runs that, pillsbarry?
Oh yah to finish this rant...my only gripe about Michigan poker. I drove to Motor City today at noon. They had 7 tables going which I think is pretty damn good for a Thursday and they were just starting a 300-2000 game. That is really awesome in one of the worst cities and states job wise. The sad part, they didn't run a 15-30 RxR which is what I wanted to play
Limit is dead, long live poo flinging.