Negreanu and Wynn getting a divorce!

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how fun would it be to try and pair a poker celebrity with the poker room at the El Cortez?

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Sam Grizzle.

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Could he scrape up a buy-in for the 1-5 stud game? If so he'd fit the El Cortez perfectly!!

if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager. players couldn't give "a rats ass" if negreanu is imbassador.

wynn needed a great poker mind (ie like belagio's bobby baldwin) to give the players what they want.

sklansky or malmuth would have been ideal candidates.....

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imbassador

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nice!

[samjjones]

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I saw daniel at the wynn pool yesterday having a business meeting.

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What was his name?



I keed! I keed!

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Actually, I think Scotty Nguyen would be perfect at the Imperial Palace!

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too late

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if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager.


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There isnt a MORE qualified manager in LV than the current one IMO. And it isnt even close. Nor did she come from LV. To get a very good poker room manager today, one needs to look outside LV and look towards the most successful POKER ROOMS not inside a casino. Which is exactly what Steve Wynn did. Making a personal call to the current poker room mgr. Thats a rarity indeed.

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if wynn wanted to compete with the belagio poker room he should have hired a more qualified manager.


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There isnt a MORE qualified manager in LV than the current one IMO. And it isnt even close. Nor did she come from LV. To get a very good poker room manager today, one needs to look outside LV and look towards the most successful POKER ROOMS not inside a casino. Which is exactly what Steve Wynn did. Making a personal call to the current poker room mgr. Thats a rarity indeed.

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If I was opening a poker room I would not want someone with a strictly Vegas back ground. There are a lot of guys out there that have been working 20 years, but only have 1 year's experience 20 times over.

I do not know the manager at Wynn, but I have heard really good reviews of her ability.

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Fish:

I really disagree. In my opinion, part of the problem with The Wynn Poker Room was the confusion not only of their manager, but of their swing shift manager who also didn't understand basic concepts as to how a poker room should be run even though their intentions were good.

I do think that part of the reason the room is doing better and is now a better place to play poker at is that the swing shift manager resigned and has been replaced by someone who does know what whe is doing.

best wishes,
Mason

[bigfishead]

Hi Mason,

I can totally understand your thoughts on the swing mgr. But from what I understand of the poker room mgr She's very well qualified in making a room very successful. Certainly there would be some learning curve to this locality differing from her last position. But overall if she does what her reputation suggests this room will be #2 or #3 to Bellagio & Mirage for a long time. I suggest the only reason it wont become #1 is not enough space, and the long standing "aura" of "Bellagio" along with the tight connection to WPT.

The one thing I was very very surprised about however was the total disallowance of a toke comittee for the dealers. This in the long run hurts them. Too much $$ disappears. Which naturally means better dealers will leave. This has happened already when a rather large toke was left for the dealers and they actually rec'd less than 25% of what they were due by normal standards for a certain event which I wont divulge.

Regards,
Fish

ps...Sorry for the interruption last nite. My mistake.

[Nick-Zack]

come on - we need details of this.