New Venetian poker room

[budman]

Kathy Raymond, the new poker room manager, came from Foxwoods. At Foxwoods dealers pool their tokes. There are advantages and disadvantages to this (mostly disadvantages). The best dealers who earn and deserve more tokes average their tokes with the stiffs and new dealers that are trying to figure out what they are doing.

At Foxwoods it is not much of an issue as poker dealers would need to move to deal somewhere else. In Vegas, the best dealers will gravitate to the other casinos where they will be rewarded for their better perfomances.

That might be what is going on.

[budman]

I have had a lot of neutral experiences at Foxwoods and a couple of excellent ones. Some of the floor people are as good as any I've encountered in Vegas. Some are nasty and it seems all are covering too many tables.

Most of the bad experiences I have had were due to typical poker players bitching and arguing and forcing the floor to settle some stupid argument.

I had an experience at Foxwoods where I was heads up in a huge pot. It ended up chopped and the other player inadvertently took back his bet while I left mine in. Noone at the table noticed except a floor person who was watching the action. I thought that was excellent.

[The DaveR]

Having $2 chips for the 2/4 and 4/8 games is dumb.