Re: How the rules are made in a poker room.
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Questions: Were you able to use other rule books (warts and all) as a starting point?
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Yes, I used the existed rules as a starting point (which were lifted from another room in Vegas). I also consulted the rulebooks that were around at the time.
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Were royalties/propriety information a problem? For example, it seems Ciaffone is very forthcoming with the work he's done but I'm not 100% sure of others such as the 1997 Los Angeles rulebooks or the work done by Caro, Cooke, Mike O'Malley, etc.
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We didn't continue this. This was an internal use only document. It was not available to players (I suppose if they wanted to bad enough that Nevada Gaming might have given them one).
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It's a rare poker manager/rulemaker who has experience as a winning, non-nitty player. They also have a tendency to cater to the daytime nit/complainers, since the top managers (those most likely to make rules) tend to work the hours these daytime nits play. Horrendous "must-move" policies are an example of this tendency.
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One of the things that kept us in touch with who was playing in our room is I managed swing shift and the poker room manager worked my days off for me. At the time we had the only low buy-in NL game in town so a lot of players that had experience playing hihger at side games during touranmetns would play in our room.
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(that said, kudos to Lucky Chances for establishing a player's committee and putting people like Tommy Angelo on it).
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As was mentioned elsewhere I think they got lucky (or took time to find the right people). Usually attempts liek this fail miserably because those same day time nits that influence the top managers ususally end up involved with this type of thing. The day time nits are generally in favor of any rule that will chase off new guests.
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