[steamboatin]

You're fired!

TT must stand for Trying to be Trump. You are fast on the firing button my friend.

I don't get out to vegas very often so I have to use the Midwest market but I think they are similar.

The No Rake idea when the game is -5 is really good. Free food is also good. I think you would need to extend the free food idea to the entire poker room. Start a short handed game and if the game is still -6 in one hour, everybody eats free, something like that because you will need to establish a culture of starting games short.

The current culture (Midwest, but I assume local nits are consistent across all borders)is to never play short at anytime for any reason. I think this is the change that needs to be made and it won't be easy but I think it is very doable. (Is doable a real word?)

The players that are willing to start games and play short until the game gets going need to be made to feel special. I am not certain how this would be accomplished, if you made a special "Game Starters Club", hooked them up with a jacket or comps, gave them a special chip protector or anything that makes them feel special.

We need to ask ourselves, as poker room managers, why would someone come to our room and play short handed? To my knowledge, there is currently no good reason for a player to change where they play to go start a game at another cardroom.

there has to be an incentive but you don't have to give the farm away either. Value is precieved, so as smart poker room managers, we need some incentive the players will appreciate that isn't cost prohibitive. It might as simple are teaching the floor and the dealers to extra nice to the members of of "Game Starters Club" instead of just barely tolerating the players existence, like normal, actually pretend to like the members of "The Club".

I will probably get fired for rambling and taking up to much time in the boardroom, ratings drop if the meetings are boring.