[CrazyEyez]

I'll add my trip report from last night:

My impressions of the room - Nicer than I expected. Cool decor, comfortable chairs, ample plasmas. Plasma with game lists behind the desk, as well as one outside of the room. My first reaction though was how closed off it is from the rest of the casino. There is one small doorway and a few windows with wood slatted blinds, half of which were closed. Very uninviting to a casual casino-goer. You really have to want to walk in there and check out the action and you can't really see much from outside.

Got there at about 6:30pm Thursday. Two tables of 2-10 and 2 of 2/4 going. 4-5 names on interest lists for 3/6 and 4/8. I took an open seat at 2/4 and got on the list for 4/8 and 3/6. The game was pretty typical. Played for about an hour at which point a floor came and asked me if I was still interested in 3/6. There were about 8 names on the 4/8 now so I asked if they were going to start that. He said that most of the players on that list were sitting at the 2/4 so they didn't want to break the game to start 4/8. (At this point there were only a couple names on the 2/4 list, if any.) So I took the 3/6. Played for an hour or two, then took a break to get some food. I come back to find a third 2/4 game going, even though there were 10-12 names on the 4/8. They couldn't start a 4/8 and fill the 2/4 seats from the list instead of starting a third table? I would have said something had I been there when it happened.

Meanwhile I was eyeing the 2-10. It looked fairly soft from what I could tell. Pretty much all the bets post-flop were $10, and there appeared to be at least a few chasers. My plan was to try it out before I left, but my 3/6 table was fun and there were a few idiots keeping it profitable and entertaining. So I never got around to moving. I left at about 2:30. There was one 2-10 and two 2/4s still going. My 3/6 had gone down to 4-handed for awhile around midnight, but bounced back and I left it 7- or 8-handed.

Pros: Nice looking and comfortable room, plenty of loose/passive players. A nice cozy contrast to C-bury. You could easily hear names over the PA throughout the casino when they called people for seats.

Cons: No rail / too secluded to draw in random people. Didn't like how they handled the 4/8 thing. Kind of slow filling seats as they opened.

Mehs: The floor made us shift our chairs around when we went back and forth from 9 and 10 handed. This was pointless and mildly annoying. Dealers were fine, could have been a little better. One exposed two cards on one deal and two hands later exposed another. Another dealer was going to make me post 3 rounds worth of blinds when I came back from eating even though I waited until I was in the BB. I said I don't think so, she called the floor, he quickly corrected her. The floor was quick and correct on the few in-hand questions I saw. The dealers let a few guys get away with chucking their cards into the muck too hard IMO as well as some gruff language from some regulars. They weren't warned at all and I thought they should have been, but it never escalated and wasn't too big of a deal.

All in all, I'd go back if for no other reason then to try that 2-10 game. I imagine on Fridays and Saturdays when it's much more crowded that the annoyances I had with the way the floor filled games would be magnified quite a bit.

FYI for omaha/stud players, I think they said that they have yet to ever get a game other than hold'em going.

Edit: It took almost no time at all for the dealers to count down the tray at each push. An extra 30-45 seconds max.