Would I go again? Yes.
by FrankNagaiJr
on 10/22/2007.
FrankNagaiJr has played this room less than 5 times.
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Wheeling recently opened their poker room, and I think that within a few months, this will be a pretty decent place to play. The players at my table were all home-gamers (pretty fishy), which meant that general casino rules, such as '1 to a hand' were not generally respected and some of the dealers were too green to enforce this. Note: actions made out of turn are non-binding. I suspect this will get better as they work out the kinks and dealers/floor become more experienced. The great state of Ohio is losing boatloads of revenue to its three casino-offering neighbors. I hope the lunkheads in the capitol building cave in soon.
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| Atmosphere |
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This is a spacious, new room with 20 new tables and chairs. It's completely smoke free, since the neighboring spaces are also smoke free. Needs more TVs, tho!
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| Dealers |
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The dealers were uniformly competent and trained but generally on the green side. Once they get some experience, they should be fine.
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You can get food served tableside. I didn't partake, but it didn't look bad. Drink service was generally competent. Soda pop is free, all others pay.
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The wait times for hold'em were very long. 1/2 NL had 8 or so tables running with about 50 on the list; 2/4 limit, fewer tables, but still a long wait. The only relief was to play stud, with 1$ ante, and 1-5$ spread betting. The wait for this was generally shortish.
Omaha was put on the board, but it was obvious that the game was not going to go, because it would have involved killing a hold'em table to do so. Once things calm down, there may be 1-2 NLO high only. They also took lists for 5-5 PLO and 3-6 O8.
The floor was really struggling to keep control of how many empty seats they had and how to fill them, despite some very sophisticated buttonry on the fancy tables.
The cage folks really need more training in terms of doing very basic things quickly. If it takes them 2 minutes to figure out how to give you $100 in chips, and there's 10 people in line, you'd better get your chips well before it's your turn to play. Seemed to take 4 minutes plus for any player to cash out at the cage.
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The comp program needs some work. It works out to about $5 for 24 hours of play.
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