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Most of the regular posters in the previous thread were Del Sol players, and we have a preference for that cardroom. It would be nice if some Diamond regulars chimed in.
I'd be happy to as I regularly play in both rooms. Del Sol is the "no"-limit room with good management, caring friendly employees, a wide and excellent food selection and great promotions. You can read all about the games in the other posts.
The Desert Diamond is the limit room. The food is marginal and you should avoid the Steak House. They rarely have a spread limit game but regularly spread 3-6, 4-8 and 4-8 Om8, all with a full kill. The drop is 3+2 with one of the 3 for the house dropping
before the deal. There might be an 8-16 full kill that will get going 2 or 3 times a week. A 15-30 game goes every Friday early and on occasion on Monday morning. This is a time game that costs $5 per half with no promotion participation. It is the best deal in town. Recently this game gets through the supper hour and becomes VERY good. During the day it is still good but does not have the action players that populate the late game. Both the day and night 15's are populated more by loose calling stations than by grinders or action junkies.
The floor people have varied skills. Dave is very good and Felicia is way more competent than all the rest who are pretty poor. The dealers have all been there for many years and most have a solid level of competence excepting 3 or 4 of the long term tribal employees.
Unfortunately the managment of the Desert Diamond is VERY bad, pitting each department against the others and managment against the employees.
Attendance in the room continues to drop and the people that run the room don't seem to care. It survives because the location it great and more convienient to almost all Tucson players. In spite of this, the room is again losing tables and will have only 8 begining sometime in October, 2012.
I like this room because I am a limit player but now go only for the 15 and spend the rest of my time at Del Sol. I like to be treated like they want me to come back.