2024 Las Vegas Summer Series - non-WSOP - Page 12 - WSOP and Tournament Circut

Low turnout at MGM? Can't say I'm surprised. The vibe I get from MGM's engagement with tournament poker is that they do the absolute bare minimum. For example, it's June 18th and right now they haven't posted ANY results of their summer series (which started May 28th) to Hendon Mob.

https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=54065

Does this actually matter? No, but it just reeks of laziness. If you don't care about your own series, how do you expect anyone else to care? Their social engagement also seems to lag behind the likes of Wynn and Venetian, who are good about posting results, winner pics, etc.

Can't put forth minimal effort and expect to draw traffic from other rooms in the peak poker season.

If they're getting big overlays, how long before they pull the guarantees like Orleans did a few years ago?

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06-22-2024 , 01:01 PM

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mh1216

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Join Date: Apr 2024 Posts: 7

For the Wynn one day tournaments ($1100 $250K gtd), does anyone know if you can register the night before, to avoid lines/alternate lists?

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06-23-2024 , 03:33 PM

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Clavain

enthusiast

Join Date: Mar 2022 Posts: 58

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Originally Posted by mh1216

For the Wynn one day tournaments ($1100 $250K gtd), does anyone know if you can register the night before, to avoid lines/alternate lists?

Not sure how early registration opens, but from my experience playing last Sunday's $1100 tournament, you shouldn't worry about it. They started with 4-5 players per table and the seats didn't fill in for at least 45-60 minutes, and they opened new tables over the first few hours. There weren't alternates until later on as we go to the late registration deadline. It seems a lot of players showed up late for this tournament, but everyone who was there before or right after noon was in with no problem.

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06-23-2024 , 09:39 PM

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mh1216

stranger

Join Date: Apr 2024 Posts: 7

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Originally Posted by Clavain

Great, thank you!

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06-24-2024 , 01:52 PM

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RidePolaris

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 470

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Originally Posted by TuscaloosaJohnny

If they're getting big overlays, how long before they pull the guarantees like Orleans did a few years ago?

Laziness is common [for the most part] in the casino industry, and the service sector at large. Those aren't exactly industries that attract highly ambitious individuals; and I can't blame the labor as the pay is generally low. Folks want to show up, do their job, and forget about work when they get off their shift. There isn't much career progression; why should anyone care about improving processes, work efficiency, and customer satisfaction? Try working in that sector of the economy and you can experience all the things I just listed.

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06-24-2024 , 01:58 PM

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RidePolaris

grinder

Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 470

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Originally Posted by Black Aces 518

Playing the Resorts World nightly right now.

Pros:
Comfortable chairs
9 handed
Good dealers
GOD AWFUL players

Cons:
Colors of chips too close together, and too close to some felt areas
Table surface insanely busy, hard to distinguish chips and cards
Late reg open til 11:30 for a 7pm nightly, too long

I agree with the all-too-common, poor choice of poker chip color schemes, especially for tournament chips. Why not use highly varied colors that don't look similar in certain lighting conditions? Colors should be bright and from each primary color. Bright greens, pinks, yellows, blues, and black. Pastel colors are poor as they don't pop enough.

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06-24-2024 , 10:54 PM

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pig4bill

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 34,231

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Originally Posted by akashenk

It’s faster, and not significantly longer in the heat to circumvent going up and down escalators by just going around them, and across the Horseshoe main entrance/valet area.

And a better question for CET is, why do they tolerate having more than half of their HS elevators not functioning at any given time when they know there will be hundreds of people looking to go up and down at set times each day. The elevators at HS have always sucked. But you’d think they would at least look like they’re trying. But in typical CET fashion, they have a captive audience (literally when it comes to the elevators), and it’s clear CET doesn’t give af.

I think it's deliberate, to save electricity, having only 2 or 3 operational elevators.

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06-25-2024 , 01:18 AM

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akashenk

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Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 3,173

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Originally Posted by pig4bill

I think it's deliberate, to save electricity, having only 2 or 3 operational elevators.

Maybe so. But it’s a hazard and a major PIA. And since when is anything in Vegas interested in saving electricity?

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06-25-2024 , 08:35 AM

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dimeat

adept

Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 718

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Originally Posted by akashenk

Maybe so. But it’s a hazard and a major PIA. And since when is anything in Vegas interested in saving electricity?

Some bean counter probably figured out they could shut down some elevators certain hours and save money.

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06-25-2024 , 02:18 PM

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AnyAce

grinder

Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 427

Just back from a long weekend in LV. A quick report on waits to reg etc

Played the $600 o8/s8 last Thursday at Orleans. Arrived 30 minutes early. Very short line to reg. Tournament wound up drawing around 240 including around 50 alternates (if memory serves). Alas, I busted just before dinner.

Played the $800 o8/s8 Saturday at Aria. Arrived 10 minutes late. No line (though you had to reg in the sportsbook down the hall).. They drew similar numbers. Again I made it to around the dinner break.

Both tourneys well run, though dealers were better on average at Aria (obviously harder to find good mixed games dealer in general).

AA

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06-25-2024 , 03:15 PM

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akashenk

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Join Date: Mar 2013 Posts: 3,173

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Originally Posted by dimeat

Some bean counter probably figured out they could shut down some elevators certain hours and save money.

I’m thinking it’s more likely due to maintenance and trying to keep all the evidence on the same usage schedule. But they should make an exception for the WSOP timeframe. At least during the mega field events.

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Today , 02:00 PM

#287

Dr. Meh

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Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,471

Playing in the 40k at MGM and pretty light turnout for now.

This is my first time at this place and I’m not impressed. The casino as a whole seems pretty dated looking to me. Poker area seems mediocre at best and akin to a local place rather than a premier casino on the strip.

I don’t know, maybe I came in with too high of expectations.

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Today , 03:08 PM

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Dr. Meh

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Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,471

I officially hate it here at MGM. It’s way too loud, the machines are loud, the other players are loud, the TD making random announcements is loud, and my dealer is quiet. People are raising and I can’t hear what the dealer is saying. This place is ridiculous.

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