Sorry I can't find the link. It was in the summer of '07 and I can't seem to find the link via the search. However, I did find a copy of the TR on my pc, so I'll copy/paste the Sam's Town part here. I know it was a couple years ago and a short experience, but it really ticked me off at the time.
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Oh and speaking of other places, I did make a venture to Sam’s Town on Saturday morning. Wow, there’s an interesting place. I got there at 11 am and there were two tables going. A full $4/8 and a $1/2 with a couple empty seats and not much money on the table. I sat down in the $1/2 waiting on a $4/8 seat and wish I hadn’t. I lost the customary $100 about the same time I noticed the empty seats at the $4/8 game. The $1/2 was very soft and very passive. $7 was the average pre-flop raise and $10 pf was big. I played two hands and played one of them horribly wrong costing me the pot and about $70.
Now to my $4/8 story….this got me steaming. I walk up to the desk as they were seating a brand new $3/6 game. I didn’t even know Sam’s Town spread $3/6 until then. I noticed the $3/6 game had two empty seats and every player looked like a total tourist fish. The $4/8 game had 3 or 4 empty seats now and there was no one at the table under 65. I asked the floor man if he knew any of the people in the $4/8 game, not wanting to play with the old folk regular crowd when I had a fishy $3/6 option. The floor man says “No I don’t know any of those people. You want to play the $4/8 game, it’s a lot better game. You don’t want to play $3/6.” I immediately realized he didn’t want his $4/8 game getting any shorter and breaking and this is why he was pushing me to it.
Fine. I bought a rack of chips and watched the $3/6 game for a second and it looked juicy. I looked back at the old folks in the $4/8 and just had a bad feeling…not that they were good players, but just that it was a bunch of old griping and complaining regulars. There was an older woman (65+) at the desk by the young guy I’d just talked to and I walked straight up to her and said “Do you know anyone in that $4/8 game right there? Are any of them regulars?” It was the table closest to the desk. She said, “oh you need to play that game, it’s a lot better than $3/6.” That is not at all what I asked, again knowing they didn’t want the game to break, I knew they were pushing me. So I point blank looked her in the eye and asked the same question again. This time she said “No I don’t recognize any of those folks…..none of them are regulars.”
Ok fine. I sat down having a feeling I’d been lied to. It took me all of 20 seconds to figure out I was right. Everyone knew everyone by name and were all talking about the local town gossip. The dealers were calling the players by name and laughing it up having a good time. I immediately figured out that every single player in that game was a local regular and I started steaming because I’d been lied to. Then an older Oriental looking fella at the end of the table got up and went and cashed out. 5 minutes later I see him buttoning up a dealer’s uniform and he comes and sits down in the box!!!!!!! Not only had these two floor people lied to me about not knowing any of these people, one of the players they said they didn’t know was a freaking dealer in the house!!!!
This might not seem like a big deal, but it was just the whole situation that really pissed me off. I’m actually not sure that there wasn’t some sort of Mississippi gaming law broken when they lied like that and one of the players was a dealer there. I wanted to go tell the floor exactly how I felt but I’d kept hearing about their low buyin (high juice) donkaments and I thought I might bring my wife back over there for one of them and didn’t want to do that after I had gone nuts on the floor staff.lol In reality it didn’t really matter because the play was horrible and I managed to get my QQ cracked for a small loss before I racked up and left, needing to meet my wife back at the GS. That ended up being my only experience with Sam’s Town.
Again, I know this might all seem petty but it really bothered me for the staff to lie. I'm not asking if any of the players are "good", I'm just trying to decide which game I'm going to play and I didn't feel like sitting with a bunch of nits for the next couple hours when I see a VERY juicy tourist game going on at the next table. But to lie and say she doesn't recognize anyone in the game, while in fact one of the people is a co-worker of hers and a dealer??? Sheesh. Just rubbed me wrong.