Well. Not today haha. Like i say ive never seen an issue at all before today, so dont mean to say MGM is normally like this. Id hate to work in any sort of retail environment where you gotta enforce this **** right now.

Anyone know if they give any poker room rates? Might be heading down next Fri/Sat night with some friends, we'll play a bunch of hours and high ish limits, but none of us have any status with MGM or anything. I'm guessing no but figured I'd ask!

Nope

The new BBQ place opened at the food court.

$22 for 2 meat combo (includes 1 side):
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So I got 2x beef brisket:
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only 6 strips (so 1x = 3 strips).
Didn't feel that full.

9 piece chicken tender for $20 is still best bang for buck.
can last you 3 meals

What happened to the brush ladies on fri/sat morning?
Supervisors running the brush now

Prices don't look that bad for BBQ. Except lol Sweet Baby Ray's... that's garbage tier.

Thats a pretty tiny serving of brisket tbh - the pulled pork sandwich at $11 looks like a pretty good deal.

Does anyone know if parking is an issue tonight or are the summer concerts over?

They are not over. Thursdays are very difficult for parking there.

I was at NH on Monday... it was ridiculously bad with dealer shortages...

Seems like alot of dealers are bouncing... leaving to goto other casinos and moving out of state....

sad to say,...

A lot of them are heading to Texas

Yup... one of the guys I was chatting with.. great dude... hes going out to blackhawk.... He said he got a deal he couldnt refuse.. he was saying how bad it is with call outs... sucks

yup, lots of long time dealers are leaving.
some because of an offer they couldnt refuse.
others because they were fed up with the place and taking just a slightly better offer.
i'm assuming because of new mgmt since johnny left?

Pretty sure it’s more cause Austin left not Johnny

who's austin? johnny's replacement?
is his replacement that bad?

I think Austin was one of the shift managers. He may have had other responsibilities as well.

Adam is the new poker room director and he's a massive upgrade.

You know... I am curious... I didnt realize johnny had left, and now it makes things alot more clear.... sucks..

Any chance we could get him or another rep to interact on here?

Adam is very receptive to feedback. If he is the new poker room director we are in good hands. We should probably give him some time to sort things out.

I think that whatever is happening with dealers has more to do with the post-covid state of the industry and less with Johnny's departure.

I'd agree with that.

before Covid, How many times a year did mgm-nh give out free cruise certificates?

I think more specifically it has to do with how cheap MGM corporate is. Their MGM2020 plan clearly laid out how they were going to cut costs and reduce overhead - I can only imagine that trickled down to the dealers. MGM just isnt going to spend money on something that costs them money.

Cocktail service is a good example and has been an issue with day 1. I dont think I've ever waited less than 30-45 minutes for a drink. If you simply hired/staffed more servers in the busy time, this ceases to be an issue. But - thats never going to happen.

Got into a good discussion with a couple guys in the room last weekend and I think we all agreed we should consider ourselves lucky that the room is still open post-Covid. Look at the new e-table games they are installing, clearly intended to serve more customers while paying fewer dealers.

At what I would consider a "locals casino" - they traditional arguments about why poker rooms are good for a casino just dont apply IMO. That space could fit a lot of their newer slot machines.

Poker rooms don't make much for the casino. If you assume that each table makes roughly $100 an hour in rake, that would be $2,400 per table open. Even if it was fully packed 24/7 that wouldn't be much money. they would make around 72k per day but they aren't fully packed all day long. Also they get taxed a large portion of the rake. A rich whale bets 5-100k every hand. Poker rooms take up a huge amount of space and you gotta pay a separate cashier cage, multiple managers and dealers, it just isn't ideal for the casino.

The one thing poker does is it brings degens - they get stuck - and play table games.