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All cash games were suspended until 3pm.

Additional tables were set up near Buzios.

They announced that there would be a concerted effort to get people out of the pavilion. Indeed, it was empty by the first break (I walked over and checked).

I'm glad to see that Jack Effel and friends finally decided to do things correctly, but these radical changes basically validate everything I said in the first place.

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Sounds good that they are making things better.
But I don't think it's accurate even now to say that they are even doing things 'correctly'.

From what I've read, the fact that ANYONE has to play in a freaking tent even for 5 minutes is a total disgrace.

So, in fact, they still haven't gotten it right. They just made efforts to make it less completely idiotic so they can at least say they are doing the best with what they have to work with or something like that.

But the Rio is freaking huge. It takes like 10 minutes to walk from the front entrance all the way down to the main-room and there are a zillion different conference-rooms, etc along the way.

Yet they are essentially making people play outside because they supposedly don't have enough room for them indoors?
WTF?


Also - I think Rottersod's comparison to a professional company actually having the foresight to plan out every detail possible of a well-run large convention is 100% relevant to this situation.

Harrah's either doesn't think or doesn't care.


To the Harrah's apologists - The reason you have to say, "Hey, they are trying to make things right. Just give them time" is because they are either too lazy or too selfish to put any effort into getting it right the first time.

They obviously showed zero concern for their customers when it apparently didn't even occur to them that playing in 100+ degree heat might be uncomfortable, unfair or inappropriate.

Any competent director could have foreseen that this would be a problem before the tournament even started or before even 1 person lodged a complaint.


If Rottersod's company or some other well-organized group were asked ahead of time whether it would be okay to hold part of the convention in a tent anyone with a brain would immediately think, "Ummm, no that's not satisfactory. We want to give our customers the best. And besides, isn't it like 100+ degrees when you want us to do that? That's completely inappropriate for our customers."


So I have zero ability to agree with anyone who somehow thinks that Harrah's couldn't see this coming.
They are clearly trying to get away as much as they can with treating their players like absolute dirt.


The chances of the Bellagio forcing an overflow tournament crowd into having to play in a make-shift tent are about zero (at least I hope it is). They wouldn't even consider something as ridiculous as this I wouldn't think.
And Bellagio doesn't exactly have the best rep for service/treatment of their poker-players.

Perhaps their new slogan should be, "Come to Bellagio. We don't make you play outside."