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Originally Posted by Chris Partlow
This is Bull**** sprouted by management to gloss over their complete stupidity when it come to running a poker room.
I have personally spoken to a number of current and former senior execs. of the place who tried to tell me among other things that: dealing out of a shoe is the absolute best practice and most common way to deal poker; phones and headphones are "bad" for the games as players would text each other DURING a hand and collude, that the rake (which takes more than $250 an hour off the table in the smallest games) is so small it couldn't possibly hurt the games long term and that their dealers and floor are excellent and knowledgeable about all things poker.
Add all of that to their stupid string betting rules, lack of knowledge of player intention when interpreting the rules and complete lack of knowledge of poker fundamentals and you get some understanding of how a large number of private raked and unraked games as well as terrible pub poker continue to thrive across Sydney.
Hands down one of the the worst poker rooms anywhere in the world and a classic example of what a lack of competition and a closed market lead to.
Melbourne 5/5 regs were proven to be texting each other during a hand, so there's that
What are the string betting rules you mention? Of all my many problems with Star, I've never had a problem with them
I also do believe the room has become a lot better run in the past 6 months. I've been playing there for a v long time and think it's the best it's been and I think for eg, the marketing of the last two tourney series have been very good and the cash game structures have been improved significantly
I still have major issues - awful dealers, some really arrogant floor staff, ridiculously long lists, poor interpretations on rulings etc.