Side Games at the Rio

[AlaskaGal]

Maybe people cutting in on the wait list is part of the reason the place is disorganized and chaotic....?

[FeliciaLee]

Really guys, there is no kind of line or organization. Seriously. It's just like 100 people standing there, gaping, mouths hanging open like they've seen God or something. No one is moving, no one is going forward. It's like they're waiting for someone to take charge, but that person never does.

I'm not defending nor supporting the poster, but when I went last year to play cash games, and then with what I saw yesterday, yeah, I'm going to just march right up to the podium and demand my name be put on a list, because no one is really doing anything, they are just standing around looking like they are shell shocked.

And as far as cutting in front of a list of players whose names are before yours, well...

Last year I signed up for one of the two O8 games going at the time. I looked at the tables first, of course. Dealers constantly calling out seats, but no brush filling them. Just the constant calling. After an hour, both tables on and off had three seats open each (if I hadn't been busy chatting it up with some circuit players I hadn't seen in a while, I'd have been on this situation better). But finally I went up to the floorman and said, "Listen, I've waited with my name on the O8 list for an hour. It was 8th down, and still is, yet there have been three seats open off and on at both tables the whole hour!"

He looked at me, sighed, and said, "Take a seat."

In this type situation, where they are hiring temporary employees who enter a zoo each morning and no one is in charge, it is just sheer madness to wait in some kind of a line at the cash game podium for hours hoping to be called for a seat when there are dozens of them open at the many tables that you are interested in playing. I'm not saying you have to claim you are someone else to get a seat, but you better at least be willing to step up front and explain what is going on, and have the guy call down the list until he hits your name.

[JackOfSpeed]

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I'm not defending nor supporting the poster, but when I went last year to play cash games, and then with what I saw yesterday, yeah, I'm going to just march right up to the podium and demand my name be put on a list, because no one is really doing anything, they are just standing around looking like they are shell shocked.

And as far as cutting in front of a list of players whose names are before yours, well...

Last year I signed up for one of the two O8 games going at the time. I looked at the tables first, of course. Dealers constantly calling out seats, but no brush filling them. Just the constant calling. After an hour, both tables on and off had three seats open each (if I hadn't been busy chatting it up with some circuit players I hadn't seen in a while, I'd have been on this situation better). But finally I went up to the floorman and said, "Listen, I've waited with my name on the O8 list for an hour. It was 8th down, and still is, yet there have been three seats open off and on at both tables the whole hour!"

He looked at me, sighed, and said, "Take a seat."

In this type situation, where they are hiring temporary employees who enter a zoo each morning and no one is in charge, it is just sheer madness to wait in some kind of a line at the cash game podium for hours hoping to be called for a seat when there are dozens of them open at the many tables that you are interested in playing. I'm not saying you have to claim you are someone else to get a seat, but you better at least be willing to step up front and explain what is going on, and have the guy call down the list until he hits your name.

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Fair point. But the things you are describing are IMO much different from pretending to be someone else on the waiting list to jump other people legitimately ahead of you.

[MyTurn2Raise]

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From what I saw yesterday, if you were there last year, imagine the worst, most chaotic day you witnessed, and then times it by two.

Yeah, bad, bad.

Felicia [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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guess that poker fad isn't dying out yet

I feel good about that

[goofball]

Notes from my experience:

-The 20/40 game was very nitty, this was awesome when were started playing 3 handed.
-You can't use the single table sattelite winner 'chips' to buy into single table sattelites, this sucks.
-The floor personnel were varied from good to super bad, one guy wanted to take $1/hand for me and some guy to play heads up 20/40.
-They pool tips which sucks and makes me want to not less often.
-Mike Sexton and Daniel N. played a super long heads up match that was still going when I left at 430. I wonder who won?
-The cocktail waitresses were not hot.
-Apparently the 2/5 PLO was lots of action
-I suck for only getting 5 BBs out of 77 with KQ 3 handed on a AJ7 T 8 board.
-There roughly 500 2/5 NL games.
-The 25/50 NL game was changed to one $50 blind plus a $25 ante.

[Slider]

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but seriously, what a fucing mad house, wall to wall people, very disorganized...I didn't put my name on the list, I just waited on the side and when they called a name and nobody came forward I ran up there all out of breath and just said that was me (old trick from the commerce)

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He's trying to help you out with a slightly unethical but time saving trick and you blast him? STFU jeese.

If you value your time...

[JackOfSpeed]

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He's trying to help you out with a slightly unethical but time saving trick and you blast him? STFU jeese.

If you value your time...

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So, do you break in line at movie theaters? I guess the difference here is that it's unlikely anyone will notice you cheat. Or "save time," as you might prefer to call it.

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FMP

[Matt Flynn]

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Notes from my experience:

-The 25/50 NL game was changed to one $50 blind plus a $25 ante.

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Please comfirm this. Are you sure?

[Matt24]

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-You can't use the single table sattelite winner 'chips' to buy into single table sattelites, this sucks.


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That does suck. I was debating whether to just play sats or play limit but I don't feel like having to mess with selling chips constantly. At the circuits, it was pretty simple to just buyin the entire table.

[goofball]

My wording was unclear. The players playing in the game made the change, not the house. I can confirm that's what they were playing, but my guess is that the standard structure is at least 50/50 to be back today. You can always bring it up when you sit down if you want.