Allegedly they did this without approval from the gaming board and they only offer the 4-max tables now without plexi glass.

maybe those little speakers in the glass like at the bank teller window

What Gaming Board ? "Alleged" by whom ?

They are not located in Nevada and they are a tribal casino ...

There likely is a tribal gaming regulator, for that casino only. Is that what you mean ?

So maybe Venetian submitted for 6 max, why not, nothing to lose if they say no, right? I guess they might say no to 6 and you would be stuck at 4, SP asked for 5 so they might get it.

In the Talking Stick Poker Room thread under Live Poker and Venues & Communities.

I'm guessing the Tribal Gaming Office has some overarching general rules, but each individual tribal council seemed to have the final say on opening dates and precautionary measures, so it might've just been the Salt River tribal council that said "Stop doing that". I honestly don't know.

https://gaming.az.gov/tribal-gaming/...mp-inspections

The difference spreading 4 or 5 people is significant. Player 5 would be directly facing the dealer.

This is all for show. The alleged danger is not from checking in, it is from individual patrons in the casino. Guests are not required to wear masks walking through the casino. Even with 50% occupancy there will be plenty of guests that people will walk near. I believe like in Italy that the virus has lost most of it's potency. I'm not looking for a massive resurgence in cases. I guess we will find out starting at midnight.

They have 5 chairs here. Either they already got approved or they are pretty confident before opening tomorrow they will be.

pic with 4 chairs looked sad. its a photo opp.

never been to SP. Looks like nice room though.


edit. either dont read this post or dont read one below.

It's also to make people feel comfortable, and it's a smart upgrade. This technology isn't new to Vegas casinos - a number of hotels already offer this. Reduces the need for keys, less front desk service required - it was coming anyway. This just gave them a reason to do it now. And when better to put in major upgrades than when the hotel has no guests?

Shame on you, Lou.

Looks like 5 handed for some in Vegas, perhaps they got approval.

According to the Bravo pages for The Orleans and South Point, they will open up 5 handed. Venetian, however, is still listing just 4 players at each table.

I guess we'll find out in a few hours when they open.

Looking forward to reading some first-hand reports!

Choctaw in Okl had 7 tables last night. 6 max, masks optional for customers, mandatory for staff, various additional cleaning measures. Choctaw usually doesn't have this many tables unless tourney series is happening, but Winstar poker is still closed so likely a few of their regs made their way over there.

Poker clubs in west Texas are back to full ring, pretty busy. Masks optional. I'd estimate 80% not wearing masks and average age of players is 55. We are still seeing new cases out here, though they seem to be mostly in nursing homes.

With the protests, refusal to follow guidelines in certain areas of country, casinos opening, and the appearance of people relaxing their social distancing protocols, I guess we should have some interesting numbers coming out in the next week or so...

Jamul Casino in California 9 handed masks required only no table service for food

At least for their "show" picture, they could have set the chairs in a way that doesn't make it look like two players sit right next to the dealer.

The Orleans and South Point are both 5 handed. Both opened at 8am.

5 handed O8B sounds appealing to me.

Any clue whether local nursing home residents get free bus rides to local casinos ?

Sounds like a recipe for more disaster, in anf out of nursing homes.

The Orleans changed the bravo to 4 max, I called and confirmed. I guess only South Point will have 5 max for now.

Even better!

When are you getting back on the felt, Ron?

I'm gonna wait a couple weeks at least.

Holy Crap!

Multiple on-scene reports from midnight: Downtown Las Vegas.





Here is a nearly 2-hour live stream of the re-opening (courtesy of YouTuber "JacobslifeinVegas"). At about the 2:50 mark, patrons were allowed back in for the first time since the shutdowns.



Here are reports from today: Stratosphere and TI (Treasure Island).

A cautionary tale from 1842:

"The red death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the madness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress, and termination of the disease, were incidents of half an hour.

But Prince Prospero was happy and dauntless and sagacious. When his dominions were half depopulated, he summoned to his presence a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the knights and dames of his court, and with these retired to the deep seclusion of one of his crenellated abbeys. This was an extensive and magnificent structure, the creation of the prince's own eccentric yet august taste. A strong and lofty wall girdled it in. This wall had gates of iron. The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.

They resolved to leave means neither of ingress nor egress to the sudden impulses of despair or of frenzy from within. The abbey was amply provisioned. With such precautions the courtiers might bid defiance to contagion. The external world could take care of itself. In the meantime it was folly to grieve or to think. The prince had provided all the appliances of pleasure. There were buffoons, there were improvisatori, there were ballet-dancers, there were musicians, there was Beauty, there was wine. All these and security were within. Without was the "Red Death.""

It was toward the close of the fifth or sixth month of his seclusion that the Prince Prospero entertained his thousand friends at a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence."

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https://www.poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death

Hope I am wrong