There’s some major happenings going on with two of our favorite Graveyard Supervisors, Bruce and Paul. Word out right now is that they are suspended pending investigation. Does not sound good at all and this is not good for poker, the room, them, or any of us. Sadness and long faces are showing here…
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Bellagio is moving into the future by trying the ‘shuffle master’. It’s already in use in a test phase at The Mirage, or so the word is out. It will be in a test phase at Bellagio also within the next few weeks. They will be placed first on tables 1, 29, and 30, or something in that order to test it in high limit, 7 Card Stud, and Holdem. Whether it will be the ‘in thing’ or not remains to be seen.
One dealer retorted that now the players could throw the cards at the machine when they got beat instead of throwing them at the dealer. My thought is that if the dealer is an idiot and not paying attention, no shuffle master should take the heat for a dealer error. Aw…come on. I’m talking about the TV watching, talk too much in the box, bad attitude type of dealer.
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For any and all Omaha 8 or Better players, the $20-$40 game now plays with $10 chips, and a 1/2 Kill. It’s a Time Game with a charge of $5 per player, every half hour. The locals are a bunch of wing nuts. They tiz and fret and snort and rag each other until Hell wouldn’t have it. They verbally kick each other into a wild frenzy, stir it all up with a bunch of loco weed, shotgun it, and start over again. Never let it be said that anyone, anywhere in the world can keep up with them when it comes to insults and taunts to each other. Those guys…
There were a few new faces at the table tonight but the locals were trying to run them out. It usually works quite well…they normally end up playing against each other around 2 or 3 a.m.
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Word right now is that the room will be 28 tables, instead of 30, for the Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic. The other two tables, plus 12 more will be set up right outside the room, for a total of 42 tables. We’re getting ready to host an event that we hope will knock your socks off and bring you back for more. C U There!
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This post is done by Chanzes – during the time period that I took a break from posting in the Diary.