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1) On the board, have players indicate whether they will play short or not

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Now thats creative thinking! I like!

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To sort of expand on the idea, the goal is to have the board be accurate and useful to floor personel, so you make the right decision about whether a game can start as quickly as possible. Some thoughts that might, or might not, help:

1) have a "lounge" for players to wait for games in comfort, with chairs, coffee tables, and poker-ralated reading materials. Extend drink service and food delivery service to those wating for games so they don't leave looking for a drink.

2) Make sure there's a close restroom so you don't miss players taking a leak.

3) Put up signs kindly asking players to remove their names from any lists they're no longer interested in - remind them that the speed with which you can get them into a game depends on their cooperation.

4) Give out those restaurants pager-coasters to those on the list, so that they can go play table games or get food and still be paged when their game is up.

5) Offer to take down a cell number when someone goes on the list, and if they miss first call, call their cell.


One other idea is to keep a cell list of those willing to play various games at various limits. Call them if their game is almost up, or would be up if they arrived. Since you'll start games with 4 instead of 12 or whatever, this will be much more useful to the players than the calls currently placed by rooms because if they show up, there probably really will be a game.