Stupid Bellagio

[MicroBob]

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their staff is often times not very friendly at all, and it's quite obvious that since they don't need your business, they're not going to bend over backwards very far for you (unless maybe you're one of their cronies who grease the right wheels). This is not only my personal experience, but the sentiment of many of my poker friends and acquaintances. Whether this is an "absolute truth" or not is debatable, but it's certainly a common perception amongst frequent vegas card players.

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I'm not a 'frequent' Vegas card player.
I've been to Vegas once...the 2005 WSOP.
Was there for 2 weeks...and played at the Bellagio 4 or 5 different times.


I knew virtually nothing about the Bellagio except that it's a big room and I should play there (had not read ANYTHING about the staff or any such threads since I'm not in Vegas).

Even not knowing ANYTHING about their reputation ahead of time...this is exactly the impression they left me with.


I left thinking, "wow. extremely rude staff...and I can't believe they would design the room in such a way that so many players would get their chair bumper and twisted around all night long."

Later did I learn that everyone else seems to feel this way about the staff too. until reading some threads here I considered the possibility that it was just because of the hyper-crowded conditions with the WSOP in town leading to an over-stressed staff. But my hunch was that they were probably pricks year-round...not just during WSOP-time.