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First thing first, Patches now deals at Caesars Palace in Vegas. He works grave. Go in for the 11pm tourney and you'll find him.

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Lots of luck getting Columbia Sussex (current ownership) to put any money into the joint. It's only going to get worse.

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I have first-hand knowledge that Columbia Sussex is only out to boost the bottom line, no matter the damage to the casino.

My friend was set to become the room manager of the Trop Vegas room back in February, all the way to being named manager in front of all the staff, getting the business cards, the nice little name tag, the whole nine... but then came time to negotiate his salary.

And then things got screwy.

Management wouldn't set a concrete date to go over a potential contract... questions to the man, Larry, who was overseeing Trop Vegas got vague answers... and then my friend finally cornered him for a meeting to hack out the financial details.

The offer they gave was embarrassing. They only wanted to give him a 3% increase of what he was making as a floor to run the entire room. My friend had done all the research on what comparitive room managers around town made and what potential applicants had asked for (has a source inside), and the final Trop offer was about only 60-63% of what the lowest salaried room manager in town was making.

The Columbia Sussex rep, Larry, said he wasn't allowed to offer any more money for the position of room manager. My friend told him to go screw himself and took off out of the meeting, relinquishing the room manager title in the process, but not before telling Larry that with the money they were offering, only a desparate schlub or a complete hack would take the job.

And sure enough, the room is now being run by a goof that got fired from Gold Coast who's completely killed the momentum my friend had going in building the room into a nice little tourist room.

We had plans (I was to be involved also). Columbia Sussex [censored] it all up.

Things won't be any different in AC.