Re: Congratulations! You just became the manager of a Vegas poker room
I think the most important thing to do is to make sure people who show interest at one point (put their name on the board) get into games. This would involve doing things like maintaining the list (asking people to take their names off and asking if they will play short handed)... as well as calling people on their cell phones to make sure they know a game is getting started. Getting players interested is hard enough, it would be ashame to lose them due to communication issues.
I think i would try to advertise the game as being the biggest in the casino, and maybe have the table for it be separated from the masses of other poker table. I would keep it close to the rail so that passer bys could stop and watch. Maybe even post a security guard near the table. This might create a kind of prestige for playing in the game that rich fish might want. But then again i dont know a single thing about playing for higher stakes, so this could be completely stupid.
And of course we should have no rake for short handed (<5)games, and half rake for 5-6 players to try to convince regulars to show up and play.
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