Re: The Grand is grand.
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Many people rip the Grand dealers but they are usually very nice and good dealers. Ahmad is my fav
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There are some good people left at the Grand. As far as the daeling quality if you have never played where they have truly good dealers than the Grand's dealers are fine. The biggest issue at the Grand is the the floor staff/ management is unfamiliar with the rules of poker and how they do things in other locations, so if theere is a dispute at the table you may get a horrible ruling. Also they are unable to protect the integrity of the game because they don't understand why things are done a certain way. I will give one quick example. When a dealer calls for a fill (needs more chips), they normally hand it to the chip runner who counts it; it is fast everyone is happy. The correct way to do this is to count it out on the table between hands and give it to the chip runer. Most people never give this a second thought, after all it isn't their money so why should they care. The reason it shoudl be counted on the table is to show the players that the same amount that leaves the table comes back to the table. Again this seems like not a big deal at all, but imagine this scenerio. A dealer and chip runner are stealing money; that delaer slides chips from the pot into the rack. He calls for a fill, hands the chip runner $120 and says "bring me $100 in white;" they just stole $20 off the table. Is this common? No. Does it happen? Well there is a reason that procedures are what they are. In a well run poker room procedures are in place to protect the players so you can play poker and not worry too much about this stuff. At the Grand they ignore these procedures becasue they do not understand why things are done a certain way.
Randy Refeld
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