The room is quite large and airy. Venetian really did things right. Unlike some rooms that try to cram in as many tables and chairs as is physically possible, the Venetian has a ton of tables and chairs, but they are spaced out nicely, so it's easy to get up and walk around and makes cocktail service easier, too. The tables are high quality and the chairs were nice enough if typically standard issue.
We were there for only about 3 hours late on a Sunday night during the World Series of poker, so maybe take this with a grain of salt, but the table was a pretty even mix of tourists and in-town salty dogs. One woman had gotten broke back into this 3/6 game, one guy was clearly a local rock. It wasn't a very elegant game that night, since we had about 5 crusty locals at the table, 4 tourists, and me just looking to blow off for a couple hours away from the WSOP. The one really nice thing about it for a 3/6 game was that you could actually run a bluff late in a hand, which just doesn't usually work at all in a low-stakes limit game. I've never seen people run off by a $6 bet on a ugly river like in this game, but then I usually try to play the low-limits games when everybody else at the table is drunk :)
The dealers that night were all fairly good, although the ShuffleMaster machine kept screwing up like HAL on a bender. The dealers were mostly silent but efficient that night, so I don't know if that's a management directive or just reflective of the fact that I was playing a game from 11 pm to 2 am on a Sunday night.
For being so late on a Sunday night, the cocktail service was good. The room was way below capacity so there weren't many waitresses, but the ones I saw were quite attractive and scantily clad. They serve Red Bull, which was the key to getting me back in the game after a long, long day.
There weren't a lot of stresses on management that night, seeing as it wasn't super-busy, but there were enough floor managers that any problem or need was attended to quite quickly. Player lists are all computerized and on large plasma screens outside the poker room proper, much like at MGM or Bellagio. When our table was breaking up around 2 a.m., there were about 5 players who wanted to keep playing. There wasn't room to move them all into ongoing full-handed games, so management offered to keep dealing them 5- or 6-handed at half-rake if they wanted to keep playing. I was leaving anyway for another long day at the WSOP, but that seemed pretty fair to me; if I'd had any energy left at all, I would've stayed.
I can't really comment on this feature, as I knew I wouldn't be playing more than a couple hours, so I didn't even bother with getting rated. I think that the bad beat jackpot was an even $25k and went down to aces full of 10's, which seems very fair.
