Meh, I guess I will note some more thoughts, while I have a few minutes.
I generally love the room. I will be back, and frequently. Seriously, great room thus far. Everyone should try it out.
But now, the few nitpicks (two of which I don't see any easy way of fixing in the short term):
* As has been mentioned once or twice, the shufflers are not mounted flush with the table surface. This was an engineering error, as we were told they could either be mounted a half inch high (meaning chips and cards won't float over top of them), or an inch too low, meaning chips and cards get trapped in the divot and have to be picked out one by one. Parx chose to mount them high, which is probably the best of bad options. (We did hear that some tables may have them closer to flush mounted, but I didn't see any like that.)
This is a minor grievance, but it will probably generate trouble at some point when a dealer tries to route a pot around the shuffler to seat 7 or 8 and accidentally bumps into seat 6's chip stack, spilling them into the pot. All hell is going to break loose when it happens.
* The waiting area near the podium has no seating. Maybe this is somehow by design, since it will discourage loitering, but it is annoying to the players actually waiting for seats. There is plenty of seating over in the simulcast area (and the PA seems to work well in there), but it is out of sight from the podium, it might be harder to hear if there is ever any ambient racing noise, and I don't know what the eventual planned use is for that room, maybe they will be discouraging non-bettors from congregating in there.
* The chips colors cause some problems, especially the $5 chip - they are a little too busy, having not enough "main" color and too much "spot" color, and there is too much color sharing between chip denominations. (
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=930)
In particular, from the side, the baby blue $2 chip looks an awful lot like a red $5 chip (which has baby blue spots). It doesn't seem like it should be hard from the picture, but believe me, it is. It is almost impossible to spot a dirty $5 chip stack, either in your own stack, in another players stack, or even in the chip tray as you buy from the cashier. There may be other chip combinations that are hard to distinguish as well.
* The dealers are trained to chop $5 chips into two $2's and a $1. This probably makes sense for a raked game, but it is a hassle in a time game. Poor, poor me.
That's all I can think of for now, other than things that have already been beaten to death. Haven't tried the food yet - I haven't heard good things, but sample size is still very low.
Still, all in all, a great room. Can't wait to see it improve over the coming weeks!
Last edited by dinesh; 11-05-2010 at 04:44 PM.