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Originally Posted by Savage Henry
Goose that laid the golden egg?
The room has been open for 2.5 years. During that time, the only golden egg I can remember Johnny laying is stopping the seat jumpers. It might be worth it if somebody would list the other golden eggs.
1) I like the type of promos they run, and he has generally listened to the community on this. A lot of terrible promos (such as aces cracked) run that change the action (you basically cant fold aces with aces cracked promo), and there are much more table drawings, much fewer (inferior) high hands. LIVE is running a $1k HH promo right now, Johnny listened to people not wanting to deal with the tax forms for >$599 and hasnt run many promos in the $600-2k range like they run down the road.
2) i really enjoy the new room, i know not everyone does, but i think its super cool and great. There is a good amount of space between tables as well.
3) i know it took a while but the games are down to 9 handed. Keeping them at 10 when they had lists hundreds of people long makes sense.
4) mostly competent dealers and floor. Im disappointed at the floor hate in this thread because i have had nearly only good experiences.
5) i have enjoyed the PPOs, and a few things got changed as per requests by the community.
6) attempts at innovations such as short deck and shot clocks should not be overlooked, putting resources into (what turned out to be) failed experiments is good, and I hope for more in the future, as im sure some will be a success and its worth the risk. I for one am sad shortdeck didnt take off more.
7) a lot of smaller, easy to overlook things like pulling peoples chips earlier than most other casinos, and the $500 max buyin at 1/3 was innovative at the time and other places have copied their formula. Read the thread leading up to the opening saying that a. 1/3/500 game as the smallest game would be a disaster. The room is always clean, the chips are clean, ive never had a cashier miscount my chips, security has not been heavy handed, and the parking is still free, whether or not you can give johnny full credit on all this.
8) anecdotally, he was very helpful to me in getting a hotel in vegas one year
Im sure ive overlooked many more.