I returned to work tonight and it’s hard to believe that the place had ever been ‘down’. It was exactly as I left it last Friday night. Tournament and satellites were running in the pit area, the room was jam packed, slammed to the max and probably filled with noise and confusion but I started in the tournament/pit. I got rerouted once and ended up dealing the last few tables in the pit over again.

The tournament schedule has been rearranged. Some of the buy-ins have been changed on the tournaments that are up and coming. Some of the tournaments are just ‘cancelled’. There’s no way to put everything back together and try to run those tournaments…after all, we have a WPT, $25,000 Buy-in NLH Tournament which must go off as scheduled and it’s our finale.

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All kinds of rumors flying and flipping through the air. I try not to get into the rumor mode but I do listen to players and have conversations with people away from the table.

The word out right now is that Eric Drache will manage the Golden Nugget’s new poker room which is supposed to open around the 26th of April. Word is that it will have 20 tables. Almost ironic that Eric used to manage that room and then moved to the Mirage.

Steven Wynn’s new resort is supposed to have a poker room with over 30 tables.

The Red Rock Station, not sure when it’s supposed to open, is…can this be possible…supposed to have 60 tables????

In the meantime, the Horseshoe has reopened, the WSOP is on…no idea about their structure or schedule, try checking out their website.

Can the world keep this many tables running in Vegas? Eventually corporate decides that slot machines covering the same square footage brings in more money…that’s my experience with poker and casinos. Poker is definitely jumping into the face of the world but will casinos actually give up this much space and time to poker? Time will tell.

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All of the ‘name brand players’ are out and flitting about in tournaments and live play. You have to be there!!!