Archive for May, 2006

My first thought for our ‘meet and beat each other at cards’ was The Mirage. Then it dawned on me that a big tournament is running at The Mirage and we’d never even find a space to put our name on the list, let alone play together in a poker game. I picked Red Rock Station. It’s the newest venture of the ‘Station Casinos’ in Vegas and it looks like a GIANT hit. It’s situated right at 215 and Charleston. Easy on and off for those that are traveling from around the Valley. I have no idea what/where the main entrance is, Marie and I entered from the East Parking Garage (not to worry, I didn’t park on any of the floors, just went straight to the top so I didn’t have to worry about height requirements). Perhaps we were at the main entrance, perhaps not, but this is the eye grabber when you enter from that section: (more…)

Hey…it just don’t get any better than this. Now I’m a ‘drunken dealer’. I was in a $15-30H game on Thursday night, finally had an ‘ultra’ about 10:30ish, it took me close to 45 minutes to drink it down to about an inch and half left in the bottom…hate that part. It always reminds me of sucking warm spit. (more…)

As of late I’ve hit the room and signed the E/O-Play List. We still are not allowed to play on the clock, yet all the other MGM/Mirage Property dealers are doing it. Why? The word: In order for us to play on the clock, our small signs, that adorn the walls of the room, state that we ‘do not’ hire props or shills. Those signs have to change to read that we do hire props. I find that to be totally amazing that after almost 16 years of being employed by The Mirage and parent corporations, we now have to state that we are props - but what the hell do I know? Apparently the other properties have already changed their signs…but Bellagio can’t seem to get there yet. So rather than sit ‘dead-spreads’ and put myself through ‘deal a game, take a break, sit a dead-spread’, I believe I am capable of winning when I play and I elect to ‘not’ clock in and join the battle on the green felt. (more…)

There’s never a time or place that poker doesn’t have some form of steam or heat going on - whether it’s with a player, the action at the time, the table as a whole, or everything in general. Drifting through various games and limits while sitting in the dealer’s box, brings to light a whole new world of poker that the average person just never sees. (more…)