Big Tunica Change

[Chipr777]

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I think another one of the Horsehoe floorpersons jumped ship and was hired at Gold Strike, prior to Lambert. (I know I saw him working there.)


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Your talking about Joe D. He quit Gold Strike a while back and was just hired in the last couple weeks as poker room manager at Sam's Town.

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Grand has a much better physical situation for tournaments than Horseshoe. In fact there is no comparison. There is no room at Horseshoe. So, whomever is manager at Grand has a more sound position, because that's where most of the tournament action is headed.

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The big difference is when Grand has 2 games going Horseshoe has 16. There's no comparison as far as live games are concerned. "Harrah's" has put HUGE limitations on the tournaments we can run at Horseshoe because it might hurt the Grand. The main reason Ken Lambert quit the Horseshoe is for the first time he had restrictions put on him on how to run his tournaments and the room in general.

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And prior to the Harrahs takeover the 3 weekly tournaments at the show smoked the competitions daily events.

In fact Karen totally screwed up a decent tournament schedule and not so bad structure within the first 60 days of her arrival at the Grand. I went there one off day for the Friday 7pm...got there at 1pm to play live first...they had changed it to 4pm with signups ONLY from like 11am -1pm or some crap. I LMAO at that one...it went from around 80-90 in attendance to 18 in 1 fell swoop!!

Kenny had to know that Harrahs was gonna tell him how to do his business. Thats why I left. When I saw what they did to Joe D and Jeff H in the middle of the WPO...I knew I was done. And when Kenny offered me to take over graveyard shift I laughed and told him no thanks. 30 days later he got my notice. I hated leaving there for LV & Bellagio. I love Tunica alot. The people are fantastic. The games are good. But I knew I wouldnt hang with what I felt Harrahs would do. That was the sole reason I left. Harrahs.

Best wishes Chipr777, give my regards to everyone for me. Wish them all a happy holiday.

[Randy_Refeld]

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I went there one off day for the Friday 7pm.

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THe Fri 7pm at the Grand was my baby, they coldn't wait to change it. That was not a one person job, it is an entire attitude. Even when Dale was still there and gave me a free hand with Fri night I had no fewer than 5 dealers a night want to know why we didn't shorten the levels or give them fewer chips to get it over with faster. At the time the Grand employed mostly dealers that fealt the players existed for them to make money rather than understanding they had a job only because players would come to their room.

To be fair to Karen, the real wrecking came from Herb Gee who hired her when therr were applicants that actually were familiar with poker. Herb had already set the downward spiral in place which is why Dale left; in Karen he was able to find someone that was happy to have a job even if it was at a crappy poker room.