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I hate the new tables I'm seeing around town lately (Vegas). You know, the ones that have the granite/marble borders near the rail - purportedly so you can stack your chips easier.

To me, poker tables should be felt all the way to the rail.

With the marble, you can't slide your cards all the way back and peek at them, you have to sit up, lean forward and protect them with two hands. Plus, you can't riffle chips on marble!

Who's with me?

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Happy Birthday

At first I hated them too, but then I got used to them. I think I like them better now.

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Agreed. Its the inability to slide the cards all the way to the edge of the table that bothers me most.

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I don't like them either. There's a lip between the marble and felt, and when you slide your cards forward, sometimes they will catch and flip up

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Happy Birthday

At first I hated them too, but then I got used to them. I think I like them better now.

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Thanks! My fiance is taking me to Mix, on top of Mandalay Bay...I'll report back....

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I played on these at the mgm and thought they were really nice. much easier to stack your chips and keep them neat. still plenty of felt in front to do whatever with cards/chips.

felt all the way to the rail makes for uneven stacks because it's never perfectly level.

--turnipmonster

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The XO concurs.

-McGee

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I'm with you all the way on this one. I HATE these tables. Please make it stop!

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If they're like the ones at Mandalay Bay which have wooden borders they are the best, my favorite. I like stacking chips easier and having chips away from playing area and also having more table room since the tables are usually larger with the border.

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Look great but not as functional as 100% felt IMHO

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I hate the granite/wood trimmed tables for stacking chips too. They're too slick and it's actually easier to handle the chips, pick them up, etc. when there's a little give to the surface. There is absolutely nothing good about these tables in terms of function. They look great, but playing on them is terrible in every way.

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They are cleaner....most felt at edge of table retaines residual urine or worse...marble is nonpourous....makes me wanna keep my hands on the table...now if casinos would put their chips in the dishwasher once a month...

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They are cleaner....most felt at edge of table retaines residual urine or worse...marble is nonpourous....makes me wanna keep my hands on the table...now if casinos would put their chips in the dishwasher once a month...

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Firstly, what the hell are you doing at your poker tables?
Sencondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??

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They are cleaner....most felt at edge of table retaines residual urine or worse...marble is nonpourous....makes me wanna keep my hands on the table...now if casinos would put their chips in the dishwasher once a month...

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Firstly, what the hell are you doing at your poker tables?
Secondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??

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I'm about 51/49 on this issue. On the one hand, I kinda like the look of the marble tables, and the chips do stack easier. On the other hand, it does interfere with shuffling etc.

If I had to pick out all the tables for a new room, I think I would just slightly lean towards felt all the way to the rail, and no "racetrack."

al

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On the other hand, it does interfere with shuffling etc.


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Odd, most dealers I've ever talked to get annoyed by constant shuffling.

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"Sencondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??"

Didn't you work in porn? You should be able to come up with ten responses instantly.

-Michael

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On the other hand, it does interfere with shuffling etc.


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Odd, most dealers I've ever talked to get annoyed by constant shuffling.

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who gives a damn about what the dealers want??

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who gives a damn about what the dealers want??


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Remind me later to kick you in the nuts! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

The other thing I didn't mention was that the WHITE marble racetrack SUCKS because people put there card there and you can't see them for chit. I much prefer, if you gotta have a racetrack, that it be wood, or black marble.

al

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I know from my few times at the Aladdin, people were being told regularly by a certain dealer to refrain from keeping their cards on the non-felt area... after a few times, just about everyone had their cards on the edge of the felt... problem solved... Personally, I didn't care for the Aladdin tables (it might have just been one or two) because I thought the 'slope' down to the racetrack area was too steep for my liking... always felt I'd bend or expose a card when pushing them back to the felt, etc.

At MGM, the marble seemed to be more level with the felt, and none of the dealers seemed to care if people kept cards on the marble.. but yes, I think this may have caused some problems with dealers missing players in the hand.

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Firstly, what the hell are you doing at your poker tables?
Secondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??

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Normally double posts are annoying, but this one is actually worth saying twice.

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"Sencondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??"

Didn't you work in porn? You should be able to come up with ten responses instantly.

-Michael

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I haven't seen many cum shots at the poker table, lately. Have you?

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"Sencondly, what the hell is WORSE than urine??"

Didn't you work in porn? You should be able to come up with ten responses instantly.

-Michael

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I haven't seen many cum shots at the poker table, lately. Have you?

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i haven't seen anyone pissing on the tables either

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Obviously neither of you has been to the El Cortez.

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"I haven't seen many cum shots at the poker table, lately. Have you?"

I didn't get kicked out so I don't think anybody saw.

-Michael

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i haven't seen anyone pissing on the tables either

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I've been at a dice table where a drunk peed in the drink rail and it ran out and spilled down the stickman's leg.

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I haven't seen many cum shots at the poker table, lately. Have you?

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define lately please.

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OK, now THAT'S comedy.[img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I hate these tables, too...hate them, I tell ya. Would like to chop 'em all up and make firewood or fireplace mantles outa them. Can't tell you how many hands I've had acted out of turn 'cause I can't see other people's cards, or cards I've had flip-up on account of the racetrack.

Burn, baby, burn!

And yes, Dom has seen things worse than urine...just not on a poker table.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!

Sticky [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

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OK worst tables ever = Alladin....horrible

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Urine is sterile, it's the feces on the tables you really have to look out for.

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I don't give a [censored] about feces.

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much easier to stack your chips and keep them neat. still plenty of felt in front to do whatever with cards/chips.

felt all the way to the rail makes for uneven stacks because it's never perfectly level

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Only if you have just a few chips. Once you start to accumulate enough, the chips stacks ooze out into the felt area; then you have uneven stacks and that really sucks.

Felt to the rail..