A Surprise at the Venetian !

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But it may be a good thing if they just do NL games. That way there would be even more Limit games and levels going at Wynn and Mirage.

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When you were in Vegas last year it was WSOP time, and therefore they were able to get some of those games going. There was even a weak 40/80 hobbling along for a while last year, and the game was really good with sick amounts of comps! After the WSOP all the limit games dried up. Management tried a bunch of tricks which are good for players in theory but bad for poker in the long run such as $1 rake for 8/16 and up limit games (8/16 has since been replaced by 9/18, much smarter since an 8/16 game in Vegas played with $4 chips wont have any action - it was a remnant from management's experiance at Foxwoods). The problem with a $1 rake is when the game gets shorthanded to 6 players as it eventually will always do what are you going to offer to the players now? No rake?

In short the best thing for the V to do is embrace its position as an NL room that spreads limit games on occasion when there are enough customer requests. If they took that approach rather than trying to be everything for everyone they would have a much happier customer base - communication is the key, players want information.