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Originally Posted by True North
Not to excuse it at all, but there's favoritism in all casinos. It's ingrained in the culture. If you can make them a lot of money -- be it through losses at the tables or through increased rights fees for a televised poker tournament -- you'll get preferential treatment over someone who can't.
exactly TN.
Alan C, although your post is like 1000 lines long and written very well, you are missing the point. This special treatment of the pro's....trace the root of it, as TN says.....tipping the floor to get the heads up on a good game, bumped of up the transfer list, those types of things. Maybe different scales and different levels but that is all prevalent in environment "ecosystem" of a pro poker player.
The casino does not thrive off wonderful symbiotic relationships where order and justice is maintained. It thrives off it's oxygen, money. Always has, always will.
If all of these "do-gooders" were so concerned about truth and justice for all, aside from boycotting the rooms and tournaments like the WSOP and really putting something behind their tweets, they'd also be lobbying that they themselves get no special treatment at their local cardrooms (I'm sure that never happens) etc.