Hi folks, went to CT last night and stayed at the Inn at Charleston, which is on property but a pretty big walk (other side of the racetrack). A few random data points regarding last night's trip, take them for what they are worth.
By bro and I didn't want to actually do all that standing in line so we waited until it cleared out and put our names on the 1-2 and 3-6 lists at 8:15. Then we went and bet a bunch of races, saw the ones there (the poker room is literally right next to the racetrack, they have horse betting machines in the room, and even one live 'payout' person there).
We ended up getting seated at the same 3-6 table around 11:30, about 15 min after hte races ended so it worked out good. During that time I saw some guy ask 'what games do you have here', he was told it was 3 hr wait, he asked about blackjack (?), then tried to slip the pencil $10 to get put on top of the list
This guy was really clueless. The kid just laughed a little and said he couldn't accept it...
2 dealers were quick - both named [name removed] actually. [name removed] was OK but he was distracted because he had a tray come up short (or was it over?) and had to sign a variance slip - the floor (a girl) kept interrupting him and not letting him run his game, he said it was some previous dealer.... awkward. [name removed] was .... um.... still learning - she tried to deliver a pot to 2 pair when someone else had a flush, she dealt people in when they were sitting out, etc.
The Inn is new and nice, not too expensive, just had the free breakfast 2 hrs ago - and all for under $100. The room is big (like a Hilton), and the shuttle free. Highly recommended.
The golf at Locust Hill sucked, but that's probably outside the scope of this thread....
The Sundance Grill has great food but takes too long to get it.
The blackjack mins were $50 and 100, the craps mins were $50, the roulette mins were $25 and 50, the LIR mins were $15 (a bargain!), the 3-card and 4-card poker mins were $25 I think. That big wheel of fortune game where you bet on the dollar bills was $10.
The bumper sticker: if you don't want to stand in line all that time, our system worked OK; put your name on after the tables get called, go kill 3 hrs time and you're good to go. At 11:30 right before we got called there were 90+ people on the 1-2 list, 40 on the $2-5 and 10-20 lists, and 80 on the 3-6 list. In spurts, around 1:30am or so, they seemed to call a bunch of people, almost like they opened up a new table.
Again, to all the folks who contributed to this thread, thanks so much.
Last edited by Rapini; 07-09-2010 at 11:35 AM.
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