In the spirit of Bond18, I's reflect a little on the things I've learned in the last three months of running a card room.

Good dealers don't let games break. Bad dealers make you want to break things.

A good dealer can shuffle and deal faster and better without a ShuffleMaster machine.

Good chairs matter.

Good bartenders and servers make eye contact and have a following. They’re hard to find.

We sell a ton of Corona.

Some women still drink Kailua and milk.

NL poker players complain like crazy. Pai gow poker players ARE crazy.

Jerry Yang is extremely nice and never complains.

When parking gets screwed up, it's a problem.

No hotel in Fresno has a decent restaurant.

Don't leave your laptop charging in the hotel lobby. Corollary: the new Macbook Pros rock.

A leak from the pool being renovated on the roof adjacent to the casino will find its way to the computers in surveillance.

The Foxwoods Casino with 7400 slot machines pays $200 million to the state of Connecticut. The Pechanga Resort and Casino, the biggest in California and within two hours of 10+ million residents and now ok'd for 7500 slots, will pay about $100 million annually to California. Give me 7500 slots within an hour of $5 million people and I'll send $200 million annually to California and $100 million to Connecticut, no problem.

The ATM business is a total racket.

Everybody has ad space to sell.

Limit poker is more fun and profitable than you know.

4/8 with full kill is a chip-flinging free-for-all.

If you throw someone out, they'll come back. This includes employees.

Armenian people communicate loudly.

Asian hotties like karaoke.

If a white guy, mid 40s, dances like no one is watching, surveillance will still have the video.

The facility is never clean enough.

It's all about butts in seats.

Edmond