Twenty six tables in the pit – the poker room is a huge vacuous space with a giant floor to ceiling wall built around it. The room is being extended out into the pit area – past the ‘O’ entrance and while the wall around it is larger than the room will actually be, it appears to be H-U-G-E! Probably after 40 tables and podiums, etc., are loaded into it, it won’t be quite so damn big.

The set up in the pit is almost identical to the way the tables are ran when we have a major tournament. There’s a little bit of mayhem and confusion going on right now but it will ease up in the next few days.

There’s a little teensy hallway entrance going to the Poker Cashier that leads up through the ‘old’ high limit section. Not sure if they are planning anything with moving the Poker Cage (because of lock boxes mainly) or if it will remain useable through the whole Facelift. The word last night was that Operation Facelift will take six weeks to complete…maybe a little longer because of something discovered in the structural design that has to be worked around.

The $2,000-4,000 game was in the middle of the whole lay out and – of course – in my line-up. One point of interest, I know that a lot of players – high and low limit – never want to hear anything from a dealer but this is the way it came down:

David G. was in the 1s. I can see one or both of his hole cards everytime he looks at his hand. The last hand I dealt, I could see the 10H when he peeked. He won the pot and had to show down. As I pushed him the pot and pulled the new deck out of the well for the next dealer, I quietly said to him, “I could see the 10 of Hearts when you looked at your cards.”

He retorted, “You are in the perfect position to see them.”

As I pushed back out of the box, I continued, “That means Chip can see them also.”