[Jedster]

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Really guys, there is no kind of line or organization. Seriously. It's just like 100 people standing there, gaping, mouths hanging open like they've seen God or something. No one is moving, no one is going forward. It's like they're waiting for someone to take charge, but that person never does.

I'm not defending nor supporting the poster, but when I went last year to play cash games, and then with what I saw yesterday, yeah, I'm going to just march right up to the podium and demand my name be put on a list, because no one is really doing anything, they are just standing around looking like they are shell shocked.

And as far as cutting in front of a list of players whose names are before yours, well...

Last year I signed up for one of the two O8 games going at the time. I looked at the tables first, of course. Dealers constantly calling out seats, but no brush filling them. Just the constant calling. After an hour, both tables on and off had three seats open each (if I hadn't been busy chatting it up with some circuit players I hadn't seen in a while, I'd have been on this situation better). But finally I went up to the floorman and said, "Listen, I've waited with my name on the O8 list for an hour. It was 8th down, and still is, yet there have been three seats open off and on at both tables the whole hour!"

He looked at me, sighed, and said, "Take a seat."

In this type situation, where they are hiring temporary employees who enter a zoo each morning and no one is in charge, it is just sheer madness to wait in some kind of a line at the cash game podium for hours hoping to be called for a seat when there are dozens of them open at the many tables that you are interested in playing. I'm not saying you have to claim you are someone else to get a seat, but you better at least be willing to step up front and explain what is going on, and have the guy call down the list until he hits your name.

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There is definitely no reason to play cash games at the Rio. In addition to allthe above, I would feel uncomfortable leaving my chips at the table while on a bathroom break.

Yesterday I found out about a cool promotion the Venetian is running -- if you played in that day's WSOP event, you get full rakeback from the pots you win for six hours. Combine that with $3 hour in comps, and it's a good spot to play. The Wynn, Palms, Bellagio, heck even TI or MGM or Mirage, are also all better bets than the Rio.

Basically, unless you're stuck at the Rio for some reason, it makes little or no sense to play cash games there.