Belterra Poker Room, First Impressions. Positive, very positive. - Page 3

Jimmy The Fish · #21 06-09-2005, 10:16 AM

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Wow I have actually been to that casino. We were driving back from Tunica and saw a sign that said Casino Aztar and figured it was time for a break lol. I thought it was dumb that just to get in there you had to sign up for a players card (in which they totally screwed up my name on the card even though they were reading it off my license). The poker room (up some little stair case) only had a 1/2 or 2/4 game going while I was there so I played blackjack. While sitting there with a friend he gave me a dollar chip (because we collect them from every place we go) and the dealer looked at us and said that is not allowed and proceeded to go on why it was not allowed so I gave it back until we left. Can't say that I will ever go there again.

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Your complaints should be directed to the Missouri Gaming Commission, not to the Aztar. The MGC operates under a loss-limit law, which is supposed to prevent people from losing more than $500 in a two-hour period. Every boat in the state has to use those player cards to track buy-ins and make sure nobody loses too much.

To prevent people from skirting the loss limits, it's also illegal to give chips to another player. The dealer was required to tell you this (obviously there's a jerky and a non-jerky way to tell you, but he couldn't just look away).

I've never been to the Aztar, but I've seen the situation you describe on half a dozen other boats in Missouri. It'll go away when (if) the casinos are ever successful in lobbying the state legislature to eliminate the loss limit.

WC64 · #22 06-10-2005, 12:03 PM

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Wow I have actually been to that casino. We were driving back from Tunica and saw a sign that said Casino Aztar and figured it was time for a break lol. I thought it was dumb that just to get in there you had to sign up for a players card (in which they totally screwed up my name on the card even though they were reading it off my license). The poker room (up some little stair case) only had a 1/2 or 2/4 game going while I was there so I played blackjack. While sitting there with a friend he gave me a dollar chip (because we collect them from every place we go) and the dealer looked at us and said that is not allowed and proceeded to go on why it was not allowed so I gave it back until we left. Can't say that I will ever go there again.

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Your complaints should be directed to the Missouri Gaming Commission, not to the Aztar. The MGC operates under a loss-limit law, which is supposed to prevent people from losing more than $500 in a two-hour period. Every boat in the state has to use those player cards to track buy-ins and make sure nobody loses too much.

To prevent people from skirting the loss limits, it's also illegal to give chips to another player. The dealer was required to tell you this (obviously there's a jerky and a non-jerky way to tell you, but he couldn't just look away).

I've never been to the Aztar, but I've seen the situation you describe on half a dozen other boats in Missouri. It'll go away when (if) the casinos are ever successful in lobbying the state legislature to eliminate the loss limit.

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Interesting I didnt know that since this was the first casino I had ever been to in Missouri. I guess they are all like that then.

He definitely could have done it without being a jerk though.

CMHPokerMike · #23 06-12-2005, 06:06 PM

When I drove down yesterday the gentleman I spoke with said they weren't supposed to do call-ahead but he'd make an exception for me. Now he could've just been saying that. (No... Really?) Or they could just be bending over backwards since they're a new room. But I'd say it's worth the (toll-free) call. And I guess that's not saying much, is it? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

gregdillon · #24 06-12-2005, 06:19 PM

I asked Saturday and they said they did not do call aheads. You must be a platinum club member! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Eratosthenes · #25 06-12-2005, 06:56 PM

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Nice report...but you can't fool me. I know you're lying.

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The waitress was a hottie

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I simply refuse to believe this can be the case in Indiana.

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She's probably from Kentucky, land of beautiful horses and fast women! (or something like that)

steamboatin · #26 06-12-2005, 07:07 PM

do you know the difference between the trash and a girl from Kentucky? Answer in white below.

<font color="white">The trash gets taken out every week. </font>

MicroBob · #27 06-12-2005, 07:48 PM

Nice.

Not sure why but for some reason the other night I dreamt that I was walking across Kentucky with some group. We were planning on it taking 8 days or so.
I was planning on stopping off in Louisville (which in my dream was somewhere in the middle of the state) to visit a friend of mine.

In real life, I keep telling this friend of mine that she needs to move out of Louisville...but she doesn't want to be apart from her parents and brother and nephews and she has a good job there...so she puts up with living there.

I tell her to move because I believe that your joke about the Kentucky women is not too far removed from the situation with Kentucky men (thus the reason she is still single).

I haven't talked to her in several days. although I guess I might have been talking ABOUT her a couple days ago just before I had the dream.

I think my GF and I were talking about how much we don't really care for Memphis and how much we want to leave at some point.
And I brought up, "Well...it could be worse. Instead of Memphis we could be stuck in Louisville like my friend Lisa."

Shortly thereafter I guess I had me 'Walking across Kentucky' dream.

There were zero skanky Kentucky women in this dream (nor were their any hotties either....we were just walking).

Weird, I'm not even sure I remembered this dream until I just read your silly Kentucky-women joke.

steamboatin · #28 06-12-2005, 08:11 PM

Actually Louisville and Southern Indiana is a very good place to live, crime is low and so is the cost of living. Yes about half of the assholes around here are stuck in the sixties but overall, it isn't so bad.

I usually lock my front door at night but if I forget, it isn't life threating or anything and if I forget and leave my lawnmower outside, it will still be there in the morning.

It was a really stupid joke because there are many pretty girls in Kentucky, they call them tourists.

MicroBob · #29 06-13-2005, 12:56 AM

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Actually Louisville and Southern Indiana is a very good place to live

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i actually know this too

Eratosthenes · #30 06-13-2005, 09:27 AM

I've lived in Ky, Tenn, and Ind (note to self: expand horizons), and enjoyed all three places. This has made me an expert on Kentucky jokes. BTW, my uncle just died and left his entire estate to his wife. <font color="white">She can't touch it until she's 14.</font> Note that this joke was about my uncle--that makes it funnier, because in Ky everybody is everybody else's uncle.