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The quality of this room was absolutely first rate, compared to the other four rooms I played at while in Vegas this trip. The tables are in great shape and the ambience awesome. The room is in an open area with chances for lots of drop-by traffic, providing a crucial supply of poor poker players with money. Also in the evenings you can hear the DJ from the club next door spinning, which provides you a rare experience: playing live poker while listening to music without an iPod.
Best of all the tables have built-in call buttons for open seats and chip runners, so there's not much shouting that has to be done.
At the $4/$8 table there was a mix of competition, with the dealers coming off shift and sitting in any game that appeared to have flush tourists in it. The dealers and their wives/girlfriends/husbands/boyfriends were tough competition, and I had to navigate them quite a bit to get to the poor players with big stacks.
The dealers were intelligent and aware of what was going on. They had a decent sense of humor and I didn't see any significant mistakes in my 12 hour session.
Cocktail waitress service was good, though they couldn't bring me food from the deli except during non-busy times. Orders were correct and prompt.
The room was managed well, and they worked to fill seats quickly. In one case I saw the brush actually ask a crowd of men staring at the game list what they'd like to play and ushered them over to a table quickly before they changed their minds. This is a great thing when you're hourly rate is partially dependant on new players taking the plunge into poker.
I didn't investigate the comp system since I didn't intend to play there more than once. I heard it was a dollar and hour at $4/$8. Nor did I ask about jackpots, since these are tricks to attract suckers, in my opinion.
