[CincyLady]

Hi Jimmy! Fancy meeting you here! I just sent you a PM, and I want to say here, well done, and well said!

Some people just don't know how lucky they are to be able to play at Ceasars Indiana, that room rocks, and I sure wish I was back there again, so I could play there.

Your the ONLY Harrahs property I know of BTW, in the entire USA, that has for the last TWO years (maybe 3?), had a WEEKLY qualifying satallite tournament into the Vegas WSOP ME, OPEN to EVERYONE (IE: You don't have to play x amount of hours to be able to play in it) who has the entry fee, and on a SATURDAY no less, and (if I'm remembering correctly) for only $225 each, awarding up to 3 10k seats.

Kudo's to you guys for that too! No other property in the Harrahs chain that I know of that has a poker room has done something like that (especially on a weekly basis as well), to help people who normally couldn't afford to buy directly into the WSOP ME, get there via a qualfier at thier 'home' casino (and on a weekly basis, and Saturday to boot, when most people are off of work and can actually play in it without having to take off of work to do so).

Because of this, I feel a lot of pepole, including a lot more of the women in the area, have been able to play in the ME, who otherwise might not of been able to.

I might also take this time to point out to the OP, that if Ceasars Indiana wasn't doing something right, then there wouldn't BE a wait to get into a game, because people would be driving to Belterra, Argosy, or down to Tunica to play.

The very fact that they've grown the poker room from when I first stepped into it several years ago, from a small corner in the room crammed with 10 tables, to what it is today (half the floor it's on), speaks volumes to the dedication that the staff there has for the poker players who play there.

It's not easy getting TPTB at a casino to give up floor space where slot machines used to sit, to put in poker tables with dealers that need to be paid a salary. However, the poker room staff fought hard for that very thing, and now there are enough tables that when they have a tourney, there can be over 700 players or more participating. Heck, I remember when the events they (Cesars Indiana) used to have, would max out at 50 people, a full week before the event happened, simply because they didn't have enough tables to support more than that (because they had to keep half the tables open for cash games, as per the Casino Powers that be)!

I watched as the poker room staff at Ceasars Indiana fought hard for us players, to make the room bigger and better for all the players, to bring in big tournaments, and give us comps at least for the snack bar (I remember when you guys had to fight hard for even that, and when you guys had a seperate accounting system from the Casino players card), and now, you get credit on your Harrah's card for your play (something that wasn't so a few years back).

Kudos to Jimmy and his team for all the hard work they have done and are doing for making Ceasars Indiana a better place to play at, day by day, month by month, year by year.

I only wish I was still there, so I could enjoy it on a regular basis, instead of being trapped (as this was the only place I could find employment in the telecom sector) in the land of no flold 'em hold 'em Colorado.