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Niagara's poker room is a joke: GroovyT's Poker Babble

GroovyT's Poker Babble

October 09, 2008

Okay, so I'm normally a pretty non-critical and patient guy in general, especially when it's come to things poker-related. I like to give props to good venues and well run poker rooms. However, in this case, I have something different to say.

The poker room here in Niagara is an absolute fucking joke. They have no clue. It's easy to blame the staff working, but I'm sure it's not really their decision about how things are run.

First of all, where the hell are all the tables? They are granted a WPT event which could potentially be such a huge money maker. What are they thinking? They haven't added a single table to their room. I just got back from the casino and here's the situation:

2/5 NLH: 3 tables, list is maxed, not taking anymore names, must be almost 100 on list.
5/5 NLH: 4 tables, also maxed list
5/10 NLH: 2 tables, huge list
10/20 NLH: 1 table, huge list
25/50 NLH: 1 table, 8 on list but not moving at all
$460 SNG Satellites: 3 running at a time, huge list (at least 5 hour wait)
$1240 SNG Satellites: 4 running at a time, huge list with same wait

And that's it, about 18 tables across all games, filled to the nuts. The players are frustrated (understandably), the staff is losing it and obviously agitated by all the complaints, the place is crowded, it's just a joke. I'm wondering where the hell the tournament is going to be played starting tomorrow. In this same room? Is there even going to be cash games going during it? I heard they have three Day 1s across the next 3 days which should be unecessary if they had adequate table numbers.

There is so much space available just outside the poker room too with blackjack tables and other casino games with totally empty seats all day and night long. Why the hell aren't they clearing those out and putting in at least 15 more tables, AT LEAST. They'd all be packed. Such a horrible setup. Plus, you have to get your own chips from the cashier, money doesn't play on the table, dealers are constantly held up processing small rebuys for those not going to the cage, no food service, etc, etc, etc.

I heard rumours there wasn't going to be the WPT event here this year, and I'm pretty damn certain it won't be back next year. No one is happy here. I guess Fallsview Casino just doesn't like making money, nor pleasing their customers.

Alright, that's enough. Guess I'm going to fire up an online session and wait until I'm a little further up the lists to head back to the casino (but that's a huge guessing game on when to go back, I have a guy who will text me when i'm close, but who knows if he'll notice). It's really great I spent all this money and time away from my family to play more online poker. What a joke.

Get a clue Niagara! Barca would have run a better WPT show than this (and I'm not exaggerating).

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Oct 13, 08 22:49:01

I don't know the exact rule, but I think they can only have 300 people playing poker at a time there, due to it being an indian casino or something like that, but still, seems kind of silly to have that many people wanting to play and not being able to.

DanZ1969