Red Rock & Green Valley rake rises - Stations?

[lordfoo]

The rake at Red Rock has increased to a maximum of $5 (not including the $1 BBJ drop). This happened over the weekend. Will players make a big stink about this?

[Diana Ross Fan]

I was planning on visiting. I won't now. They should or it might spread through Las Vegas.

[MicroBob]

"Red Rock rake rises"

Kinda tricky to say this 5 times fast.

[Niediam]

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"Red Rock rake rises"

Kinda tricky to say this 5 times fast.

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I messed it up on my first try. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[growlers]

Wow, this is depressing. So now a $50 pot at 4-8 costs $7 including a toke. Wouldn't this same pot at Wynn be $4 including a $1 toke? This makes a huge difference in hourly rake.

[Diana Ross Fan]

If we want to open another can of worms, don't we stop toking if the rake is too high?

I don't stop all together in an over-raked game but I sure cut back on most of the tipping.

[BDHPlayer]

Stopped by Red Rock this afternoon to play a little O8. Cringed when I saw the rake and left a while later. That's my last trip there.

Binions has a $4/8 O8 game with a $2 rake and $2 per hour of comps.

As long as that game goes, I'm there.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

Let me explain something here. Splain it to ya. The execs in charge of poker in las vegas are almost entirely total idiots. Therefore whatever the stupidest and worst for poker possible decision is, that's the one they usually make.

Now let me ask you a question. How much is a coke at disneyland? Soft drinks are surprisingly expensive there. And if disneyland had the choice of charging $4 or $5 for said coke, which option do you think they will take?

Al

[kleath]

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Let me explain something here. Splain it to ya. The execs in charge of poker in las vegas are almost entirely total idiots. Therefore whatever the stupidest and worst for poker possible decision is, that's the one they usually make.

Now let me ask you a question. How much is a coke at disneyland? Soft drinks are surprisingly expensive there. And if disneyland had the choice of charging $4 or $5 for said coke, which option do you think they will take?

Al

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Big difference, Disney has a monopoly on drinks sold inside their park, very few people will leave to get food/drinks once they are inside unless they are leaving for the day. People can decide to play/stay elsewhere for poker.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

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Let me explain something here. Splain it to ya. The execs in charge of poker in las vegas are almost entirely total idiots. Therefore whatever the stupidest and worst for poker possible decision is, that's the one they usually make.

Now let me ask you a question. How much is a coke at disneyland? Soft drinks are surprisingly expensive there. And if disneyland had the choice of charging $4 or $5 for said coke, which option do you think they will take?

Al

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Big difference, Disney has a monopoly on drinks sold inside their park, very few people will leave to get food/drinks once they are inside unless they are leaving for the day. People can decide to play/stay elsewhere for poker.

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I agree totally, with a clarifier. One player I know who meets people at redrock every week has already decided to go elsewhere. Some of this player's friends have 200,000 points, one in excess of a million. These dollars will go elsewhere, but no one will be able to show this happening with their little accounting spreadsheets, so it will be ignored.

The problem is that the ripple effect (i.e. Collusion, illegal but we all know it's commonplace anyway) will go thru vegas till all the rooms are like this. Thus the casinos will pat themselves on the back (even tho they screwed themselves) and the poker players will just be screwed.

Al