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Fav dealers:
Janell
Michael
Vu

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- Adam's the man.
- Albert is also a very good dealer.
- I like Walter, though I know some don't. Either way, though, he deals well.
- Troy is cool because of that 'grandmother's cat' day
- How can you forget Sarah?
- I'm sure I'm forgetting some too.

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There are I think 2 or 3 female asian dealers, I dont kmnow their names but they are all good.

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Hanni (Asian female dealer) has been very rude to me (and you) more than once... I always tip dealers and I've actually forced myself to not tip Hanni for the rest of a down if she gets too far out of line.

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Least Favorite:
Chelsy (sp.)
George
Amanda


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- Charles is old and deals way too slowly. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I can't stand the fact that I know I'm getting less than 10 hands in a half-hour down when he sits in the box.
- I don't necessarily share your dislike for Amanda
- Are we thinking of the same George? I like a George, but I'm sure there's more than one.

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Floor
I think the floor could use some work. They usualy get the rulings right, but they need to do a better job of opening games that players want to play. Too many times 5 or 6 players will want to play a 500 nl game, but they refuse to open a shorthanded table even though it is almost certain the table would fill up once the game got going.
That said there is one floor lady who is usually accomodating and will open more tables, I dont know her name but she is a little older and I have seen her work the saterday morning/afternoon shift usually.

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If you read my last thread in B&M about this, Al and Randy gave some good floorperson perspectives on why they would be unaccomodating about opening games etc... but I think the TS floor still sometimes seems to make decisions regarding opening games that make no sense. How are there always so many 1-3 spread tables when there are more then 20 names on 10/20, for example.

I don't know if this falls into the category of 'floor', per se -- I think it's more 'management' -- but a lot of their decisions seem to defy logic. How come there are two NL games with the same blind structure but different caps on the buy-in, for example? How come table 15 is a stud table when they've never spread stud on table 15? Why don't they just scrap 1-3 for 2/4 and teach people how to play proper limit poker?

The thing that bothers me most about the TS poker room, though, is the free-for-all involved with getting a seat. Maybe this is standard -- just having turned 21, I haven't really been anywhere else -- but the location of the board in the front of the room requires you to stand amid a free-for-all right on top of table 2 (or is it 3?) while you're waiting to get your name on the list.

Once you shove your way to the front, you have to force one of the people standing behind the desk to hear you, which is a difficult task when people just keep cutting in from the side and yelling out initials.

Finally, you get to wait... but they don't keep very good tabs on the torch lounge; as a relative 'regular', a lot of the dealers just let me sit down when the floor isn't filling their seats. This is good for me personally, but it's not good for the room.