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| - This is a mixed review and It was hard to decide how many stars to give this place. I play here often enough that one would assume that I like it a lot. Not always the case. I do track my play and I am up at this room, I walk away a winner more often than not. It is a young, hip, touristy room and because of that the competition is fairly week. Solid players should not have a problem turning a profit in this room as the games tend to be soft.
The cocktail service is always good. The waitress comes around often and I never have to wait very long to get my order. They don't offer any draft, just the standard selection of bottles one would expect to find at a casino.
That being said, this room is typically not well ran and some of dealers really have no business working here or in any other poker room for that matter. I hate to put him on blast, but wow, Al is the slowest dealer ever. Seriously, ever. He cannot keep the game going, he cannot multi-task and if there is any kind of distraction, cocktail waitress, football game or god forbid, someone actually trying to have a conversation with him, forget about it. You might as well use the 30 minutes when he is at the table to stretch your legs and take a bathroom break. You might get 8 or 9 hands dealt in 30 minutes if you are lucky.
There are a few really good dealers here but they change tables every half hour. So during a 3 hour session I'm lucky if 2 out of the 6 dealers that work my table are among those select few. Also, this is not really a poker "room" but rather a group of tables surrounded with some velvet rope smack in the middle of the casino. Which amounts to one thing: an abundance of cigarette smoke. Players, spectators and people just passing by can smoke less than a foot from where I'm playing. I try to sit toward the middle of the "room" whenever possible. It doesn't really matter though, I still breath it and smell like an ashtray when I leave.
After writing this review I'm actually not sure why I even patronize this place. Ahhh the things I do for good EV.
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