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Originally Posted by lolcashament
Arrive at the casino and walk around trying to find the poker room. Did not see one sign advertising where it was. Finally found it and then got registered and was sitting down within 10 minutes of signing up.
The first time I went (on opening weekend) I asked an attendant as I came in, where the poker room was. He gave me directions and said I would see a sign on the way directing me. I found the room, but never saw a sign. Figured I just missed it.
Second time I went I looked hard for the sign (just trying to see if it was helping to promote the room.) I again didn't see it.
I went this past Friday, and because the waiting list was so long, I did some exploring around the Casino. I finally found the (very unobtrusive) sign. Its facing in a direction so that it can only be read if you walking AWAY from the poker room! What a buncha Baffoons. (To be fair, it is facing folks coming in from the hotel, but again, only as they are walking away from poker room. People coming from the parking lot side will never see the sign.)
Trip report: At 5:30 pm on Friday, the 1/2 list was 19 folks long. Took an hour and a half to get on a table. The list eventually reached 34 people long. My 1/2 table was horribly nitty most of the night and, like a boob, I never requested a table change to one of the other two tables which were much better. I think my reasoning was that with 30 people on the list, I could afford to wait for the table to develop into a jucier table as new people cycled in. Why the fact that we went an hour and a half at one point without anybody leaving our table didn't clue me into the fact that this was a horrible idea I don't know. I ended up playing a couple of hours on better tables after ours broke and realizing what an idiot I am.
Two annoyances. When I first sat down, the floor was giving folks on the list five minutes to show up before calling the next name. That guy left fairly early and for the rest of the night/morning, they were giving people ten minutes to show. When the list is 30 people long that really, really sucks.
The other was that, in the wee am, after the list died, and the tables got unbalanced, the floor let people move from a shorter handed table to a fuller table, killing existing games. (The tables were ten handed, eight handed, and six handed, the floor let two peopld from our six handed table move to the eight handed game, breaking our table.) In fact, two tables broke in 20 minutes because of that. Interestingly, when we were down to one table of 1/2 NL two guys sat down to play heads up at one of the other tables, and that table then filled in about 15 minutes.
Hopefully the two new tables coming this week will help with the waiting lists on weekends.