Literally doing the same this year, too. First time there, how do you like it? Easy walk to the Rio?

It's an easy walk, it's super hot out though so it's not gonna be that fun. It's been a couple years since I stayed there but it was clean and safe and convenient. Ping pang pong chinese restaurant is really good and they have a 24 hour tgi fridays also which is solid for getting food after a late night of poker. Their buffet sucked imo.

I've actually been doing my research on buffets and there is no way I'd eat there.

It's ok, what's a 5 min walk in 110 degree weather anyways? I'll just eat a bunch of edibles to drive down my body temperature

Three 50-100 Stud8 games running after the game has struggled to get off over these last few weeks. Any chance they reduced the rake again below $12?

So, I will say that the kings lounge is a nice upgrade. Dealers/chairs/environment isn't as ****. $12/hh is a bit much but w/e. Rio has def improved this year but still meh overall imo.

The thing that annoys me the most is that diamond members get moved to the top of the list. This isn't a big deal for, say, a 2/5 game, because youre still going to get in the game relatively quick. But if you're waiting for a big game that only has 1-2 tables this is a disaster.

I was 2nd on the list for a really juicy game. I check back 2 hours later and now I'm 6th on the list.... wtf. I realized I was never getting in the game and left.

Have they always had that list jump policy? I feel like they should at least suspend it for the WSOP. I think its fair to give gamblers a sick comp like that at your casino, but I don't think it's fair to have it when your hosting the biggest tournament series of the year.

it's not about what's fair, it's about what makes them more money.

/ autistic

What was the mix in the 25/50 mix that ran last night, anyone know?

I'd imagine that would make them less money in the long run. If you have players that are new to the room and realize they just got bumped to the point that there is no reason to even wait they will just play elsewhere. Why even sign up for a wait list if there is anything close to a 50/50 chance of getting bumped down the list?


It seems like you'd really have to not value your time at all to deal with that nonsense.

They want to encourage players to gamble on their property to gain diamond status. That's what they make money from, not poker.

I mean I think it could pretty easily be argued that a diamond status player would be significantly more likely to gamble in the casino vs a random walk in player

years ago, i was playing a main event satellite, guy went all in from the BTN, th big blind called (by saying call) then inexplicably the BTN mucked his hand.

The BTN then said he had KK, the player in the next seat confirmed that had seen his card and that they were KINGS, the dealer then proceeded to turn the whole muck face up and root around trying to find his hand. Interestingly, there were 3 kings in the muck, which prompted a discussion about which kings were his. The guy next to him said he was pretty sure he had 1red/1black, so he kept the red king and then the dealer just asked him which of the other black kings he wanted!

I was mental hungover at the time so didn't even say anything but the guy in the BB who called was naturally going berserk about it. I don't know exactly how this situation should be handled but i'm pretty sure this wasn't the way.

Good, funny story ....... sadly, there is a significantly > 0% chance it is true.

Well i sat there and watched the entire thing exactly as i described, the dealer just totally coerced by the table and 0 control, the floor was called over at the start but didn't arrive for about 5 minutes by this time the Kings had been re-distributed and the hand was allowed to play out.

Every year there are complaints about the large numbers of inexperienced and brand new dealers. But is there even a way to prevent this? I saw in article from a few years ago where the WSOP hires just over 1000 dealers for the series. If you are a good dealer at an out of state casino, what management would give you a 6-8 week leave of absence to go deal at another place? And I don't see why it would be particularly attractive to good dealers anyway, given the costs of transportation and lodging.

So I can see how local Vegas dealers might use the WSOP to pick up extra hours, but I just don't see how the WSOP could possibly come up with 1000 experienced dealers in any case. Seems to me that it will always be a first job for tons of people trying to break into the field, or maybe some retired dealers looking for a summer adventure. But I don't see how they will ever get the large numbers of experienced dealers the players expect.

There would be an extremely easy way to make sure dealers are magnitudes better than they are right now.

Require dealers to finish dealing school 4 weeks ahead of the WSOP. Put them all in a 4 week full-time paid internal secondary training, including a ‘no rake’ live environment dealing to players who are happy to play in a no rake, no tip game where there’s a break every time a dealer messes up to extensively address the situation.

But there’s obviously a reason why the WSOP would never do that and instead chooses the option where they have to spend the least amount of money possible.

What is the min/max buyins for the 1/3 NLHE Cash games around Vegas? Gonna be flying in on Saturday