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Originally Posted by youtalkfunny
As bad as the 9 to 10 to 9 thing is, it's not the worst policy mentioned in that post--I wouldn't play in a room where the "top tier players go to the top of the list automatically".
"I was next?"
"Sorry, sir, but three VIP's came in since then, now you're fourth."
"What is this? Southwest Airlines? What am I, steerage?"
I'm all for giving VIP treatment to a VIP player--but never at the expense of the other players! That's dumb on its face, from a business standpoint! How can you imagine that this is good business?
It's understandable in a restaurant. In a poker room it's antithetical to the nature of the business. The poker room is supposed to be a nuetral third party running a game between the players. If you start out by management declaring some players more important then other players why should you trust them to run a fair game?
Changing 9 to 10 players when the management feels like it is pretty bad because the players never understand the criteria being used so they feel it should be changed Everytime there is a wait.
I worked in a 9 handed locals room where the grave yard shift manager would make it 10 handed. As a result all day long whenever someone was on the wait list wed hear constant complaints about why were we now not making it tends handed...
Just pick one and stick with it.