Any chance 10/20 LHE can get one of the 2 tables left, Johnny?

Between the 4/8 list/game and the 10/20 list should be able to thrive and feed into the 20/40 game.

Yes. Seated 8-handed

Yes, but about 6 of the players in the 20/40 game are on that list. It isn't really viable right now.

Gotcha. Figured it was worth asking, but a long shot given the 1/3 & 2/5 lists. any chance 4/8 can go up to 6/12?

Unrelated, but from earlier in the thread. Is Horse 8 handed as well if/when it goes?

Johnny,

I think you can expand another 10 to 20 tables by removing the slot machines by the restroom area to reduce future WL. I walk by those slots many times even on weekend and hardly anybody play there so it will be prudent to replace slots with poker tables. My guess is it wouldn't take more than a few days to get it done because I've seen MdLive replaced slots with pit games in less than a week and this is a lot more profitable than the empty slots.

If only it was that easy..... I would love to expand, but we have a small sample size here... let's see how things develop over the next few months...

This room looks great. Poked my head in during soft open. Feels like part of the casino instead of an after thought.

Johnny,

Heads up: as previously mentioned in this thread, you can probably expect crowds similar to today for the rest of the week, even though today is the only federal holiday.

If you recall, Johnny said earlier in this thread that they were still hiring dealers.

So where are the extra dealers this week supposed to come from? Casinos are notorious for disliking overtime, even at the wage scales they pay.

The room is great as usual. But they're definitely overstretched at this point & need more resources.

No waitresses most of the afternoon and a floor was taking food orders & another one was passing out water bottles.

While these are great goodwill gestures, they really seemed overstretched (especially the one taking food orders). The same floor was apparently also managing the transfers?? Seems like a recipe for issues...

Hope these staffing kinks being worked out moving forward...

We are actively working on getting those resources. The hiring process is slow, and we have heavier midweek volume than anticipated. Still hiring for all positions if you know anyone qualified...

People need to remember that demand on the room isn't going to be nice and smooth and MGM doesn't yet have a history to fall back on to know what demand is going to be. Gotta give the room at least 3 months for the new/shiny to wear off before talking about adding more tables. Hiring more dealers takes time and it would suck to go crazy and hire a whole bunch only to watch them get 10 hours a week come June.

It's normally outside the poker manager's responsibility but I don't know why adding wait staff seems to be so difficult. They don't have the training or licensing requirements and you have to think that wait staff is just pure profit. It'd be near impossible for a waitress to not earn more than her hourly for the casino.

Right now, it looks like 5 to 6 more tables should be opened up because of the number of players waiting for games.

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In a perfect world..yes. Problem is, we have late demand for 5/10+ no limit and PLO. If we spread the room full with the lists we currently have, those games can't be spread unless we decide to break 1/3 games. That's the last thing I want to do.

We prefer the ratio of 1/3 to 2/5 games to be about 2/1. Right now it's 3/1...

visited mgm for the 1st time last sat., but to be honest, other than the good action/deeper buy-in, not impressed at all.

two dealers back to back, made annoying mistakes:
1) dealer 1, mucked the losing hand (a relatively big pot) almost face up (to one side of the table) and he insisted he didn't "show" the hand;
2) dealer 2, when she cut the deck, one card (5d) was exposed from the middle, instead of reshuffling, she turned it over, put back in the deck, and started dealing like nothing happened. man, this is not some home game, and thousands of $ could be at stake.

the room is too open/close to other gaming areas, and noisy.

food/drink service, terrible as others have mentioned again and again.

The room is indeed noisy. Yesterday was extremely loud. I don't think much can be done about that.

It's a great room.

The negativity continues to be annoying here. When I saw the comments about noise before, I had the impression the room was noisy, but now that I have played a few times, I'm not sure what the comment is about. It's not a library. They don't have piped in music (thankfully) like some places and they don't have super loud slots next door like Aria. You can hear the table games but it's not super loud.

As for what seem to be minor dealer mishaps, that is no worse than any other place. There are one or two new dealers that are painful to have but otherwise in general I have found the dealers to be outstanding overall.

I suspect that this because of the buyins create overlap between the two and push some of the 2/5 action to 1/3.

Cannot say for certain and could be wrong, but I think this is something you should keep an eye on.

Don't order a martini whatever you do


Martini comes with oregano floating in it. I'm like what is that, waitress says its what is in the olive juice. Firstly a martini should be strained if that is the case and secondly, get different olives.

The drink also arrived quite yellow and had no olives in it. Upon sipping it I was 85% it was olive oil and not olive juice, and there was 100% oregano floating in it.


Fortunately the waitress took it back and got me a beer. Gross.

I'm a 1/3 player who would be willing to jump to 2/5 if there were a compelling reason to do so. But thus far, I haven't seen one. The 1/3 games I have sat in have been good, the $500 max buy-in makes for deep stacks, and the comps/other incentives seem to be the same for both games. Am I missing something?

yes, this may present a bigger problem than needbe if something isn't changed soon. I'm not sure what the answer is but why not start by reducing 1/3 max to $300... there needs to be some real incentive/benefit to play 2/5 over 1/3 but there isn't much atm - 1/3ers also earn as much in comps which seems odd

both games are just too similar as is, so 2/5 could fall by the wayside over time

So I heard that you will need tickets to the NYE celebration to gain entry to the casino on NYE is this true.


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Yes. Anyone arriving after 5pm will need to purchase a ticket to get in.

Not sure what the problem is... Our ratio is nearly identical to every other major room in the area.... the variance is between 2-1 and 3-1, and there is no correlation with buy-ins.... lets look again in 3-6 months...