Re: Congratulations! You just became the manager of a Vegas poker room
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The Headache: Both locals and tourists hate short games...
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I don't think the above is true. I think that some locals, and fewer tourists dislike short-handed games. The problem is that it only takes one or two nits, and a complicit dealer, to kill short-handed action.
How do they do it? By stopping the game for near endless discussions on the rake and the blinds. Shorthanded players are action players, and they won't sit around for 20 or 30 minutes while some sulking local tries to get the juice or the blinds reduced.
If it is made known that the game will always start/continue with anything between 2 an 10 players, what the fees will be, and, hopefully, that there will be no diminution of the blinds, then the dealers will won't have an excuse to stop the action.
Dealers should be instructed to never utter the word "wait." They should ask new and posting players if they want to be in action, not if they want to wait.
Players who wish to not play short, and who are know to be locals, should be given a button with the word "Pussy" written on it.
Dealers should also be instructed to never stop dealing. They can deal and yell for the floor at the same time.
I'd estimate that over 50% of the short-handed games I've sat in on in Vegas were killed by tuculent dealers or floors. I've no way of estimating how many short-handed games could have been started and weren't.
30-60, played with a big SB, is an action game. Action players have to be accomodated for it to succeed.
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