RE: Shuffle Master (was Re: [ba-poker] Bay 101 trip report)

["Dave Horwitz" <dhorwitz(deleted the rest)>]

Marcus Pasquarella wrote:
> I must be the only one with a negative experience.  I
> played the 20 game on Friday night.  I may not go back to
> the Bay $20 game and just stick to GC.  That was the most
> expensive game I have been in to date.  Maybe I just got
> bad dealers but if so I got all of them.  I had one hour
> in which I was dealt LESS than 30 hands.     
> It was the slowest moving game I have ever been in.
> The worst part was the dealers didn't seem to care or
> even try to keep it moving.  Of course the house doesn't
> care about the speed of the game anymore now that they
> get time.......  Maybe the problem is that a good portion
> of the $20 game players are not used to playing in a time
> game so they don't realize that they should keep the game
> moving.      

Wow. I left about 9:30. or maybe it was just the 2 tables
I was at. The game was moving at a tremendous pace. There
was one fellow who was a bit befuddled all the time and to
add to that was sitting in the 1 seat (couldn't see the 10
seat act). Every time he would take more than 5 seconds to
act one or two of the players who seemed to know him would
say "c'mon Tony, we're payin time here".

We did have one delay with one dealer who wasn't that good.
10 seat gets up and says "deal me in" as the dealers change
and take the time. New dealer starts chatting and deals the
guy out. He misses his big blind. He returns after the first
round of betting has started and throws a small fit (he'd 
been getting hammered for a while and was not in the best 
of moods). Dealer says "I didn't hear you with all the noise, 
yada, yada". Player gripes a bit more, then...... 
Dealer says "It's OK honey, save you money"...... ding! I
almost spit up my mouthful scotch and soda. The guy was 
pretty sharp and reacted as expected. The dealer was clueless
as to what she had said and repeated it. It was worth the 
wait. Can't get entertainment like that online.

-Quick