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Originally Posted by Phatty
I'm here now and Cherokee is a good news and bad news situation. Your first time fortunately it will likely mostly feel good. However with subsequent trips it'll get worse and worse from my experience.
For example there are pages of players for 2/5. I'm 3rd on the list and have been waiting 30 minutes on a damn Saturday. Why don't they have dealers? Why are there so many players yet so many empty tables? It's beyond comprehension. They know they have the WSOP and they know what the bandwidth will be.
From my history with poker, more tables equals better games but these games seem less good the more I play. I think part of the problem is they have the tournament and 1/3 cash games in a separate area. That's where the good action and fishy players are. But they are segregated from 2/5 and higher. This is not to say the games are bad or difficult rather they just are not near as good as I would expect it to be for this many tables. I sat down Thursday for my first session and I immediately recognized a grinder from Louisville and a grinder from Atlanta. Those aren't really the players I want to play against.
If I could go somewhere else, I probably would. Maybe your experience will be better than mine.
This is the situation only during the WSOP circuit events though. If they are planning to come in March, it won't be WSOP time and the room will be operating normally. It's just one room with 1/3, 2/5, and sometimes PLO games and the waitlists aren't terrible except when they have the big high hand promotions over Memorial Day weekend, 4th of July weekend, etc. During the WSOP there are way more tables going and simply not enough dealers so the waitlists get ridiculous. They usually get some of the traveling tourney dealers to help deal cash games when they are available, but those dealers are already working a ton of hours just with the tourneys. The regular dealers work 80+ hours a week during the WSOP, doing that 4 times a year now is burning them out even faster than before. I'm not sure where you think they can magically get more dealers from just to cover additional cash game tables for a couple weeks and then go away. I'm pretty critical of a lot of decisions the poker room mgmt makes, but this just seems entitled/unrealistic.
As far as game quality, the WSOP brings in a lot of tourney players to the NLHE cash games, who might not be great at deep stack cash games but tend to make smaller errors and aren't really giving away a lot of money. The big gamblers/whales like to play the PLO and Big-O games, that's where all the action seems to go.
Last edited by mogwai316; 02-18-2024 at 10:02 AM.