Just a small sentence, tossed out when I sat down in a $10-20NLH game and announced, “$6 for time everyone,” yet I suppose it says volumes about me when I’m dealing.

Imagine 40 tables with a minimum of eight players at each and rotate the players on an hourly basis, mixed with new and seasoned players, tourists and locals, and it’s beyond my realm of mathematics as to how many people actually sit in Bellagio’s card room on any given week. Card room rules are no different than traffic/driving rules. There are things you can do, there are things you cannot do. It’s life people – no matter what you are doing there are rules, some of them unwritten, some of them are just basic courtesy and you know them even if you don’t exercise them – so get over it and get on with it.

Bellagio’s new rule on Time collection games, if you take the last seat at the table, you have to pay time. Time is taken for the half hour coming up, not the half hour that just passed. *The old rule was that if there was no list, you did not have to pay time for the up and coming half hour when you first took a seat.* I’ve been told by more than one player in a Time game that Vegas has the cheapest Time drop in the country, yet people bitch and moan over $6/7/8 a half hour as if their next breath hinged on the Time drop.

Now we have a rule that a player cannot turn the back of their chair to the table and straddle the chair, leaning over the chair’s back to play poker…unless they are getting a massage.

And we now have a rule that the dealers cannot hand shuffle unless the shuffle master is not working properly. The shuffle masters were installed to insure the integrity of the game. We don’t need humansmessing with that *that’s my thought, not theirs*

And the line rule is very much in effect in NLH live action and tournaments.

And the ‘you CANNOT run them twice’ rule is still very much in effect in Omaha games.

And we have a major tournament starting on the 7th of April, the Five Star World Poker Classic will kick off, with satellites beginning on the 6th, and runthrough the 27th. And as most tournaments run for me, my draw for the line-up will find me dealing the main room – damn Murphy’s Law of Tournament Dealing. And during this time I will definitely HATE my job. It will be 1,000 degrees in the main room 24/7, it will be noisy, there will be HEAT produced by the playing masses, and ‘by the rules Linda’ will be right there fading the heat as the California players try to bring their attitudes and rules with them.

Yummy!