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Probably get better answers, but I seem to remember hearing Orleans was good about starting up games like that. Don't they have some low limit mix games already too? Resorts World also has a lot of mix games run, I've heard.

I haven't lived in Vegas for the last few years, but when I was there Orleans was terrible about this. We tried to get a Stud 8 game going but got little help from the management, and I never saw a mixed game there.

I made my once-per-decade pilgrimage to Las Vegas earlier this week. Great to be back in the city!

I cabbed from Harry Reid to Paris on Sunday. Taxi meter showed the flat fee of $25, so I gave $27 cash.

When I took the exact same taxi trip back from Paris to Harry Reid on Sunday, the meter was showing a $35 flat fare. I paid by credit card and tipped $2 again. Here's my receipt.

Any ideas why the base flat fare was $10 higher on my return trip?

Seems like he charged you the metered fare. Should have been $25 from what I can tell.
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I’m in Vegas right now. Taxis are charging $10 per trip surcharge because of influx of folks for March Madness. But not sure if they started it back then.

There was a $10 surcharge for Super Bowl. Here is The taxi authority filing for the new March Madness surcharge.

https://taxi.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/taxinv...

resorts world will easily..
south point does as well. I set up a 7.50/15 stud 8 cash game there last year and they reserved a table for us with 2 day notice .

Do they have $2.50 chips? Seems odd rather than $8/$16.

A lot of places have $2.50 chips, usually pink. They're made for blackjack, like for when someone gets paid 1.5 to 1 on a $25 bet, but they used to have 7.50/15 LHE regularly in Atlantic City.

Yea, I remember many years ago playing something that used those $2.50 chips, back then If I was ever in AC it was only Blackjack. Maybe it was on a boat, can't remember.

I remember playing in 15/30 limit games in Baton Rouge, LA a long time ago, but don't remember if the SB was $7.50 using the $2.50 chips or just $7 or something.

Yea, this seems very familiar, I just can't remember ever playing in it, maybe it was just so legendary that I just knew of it.

The pink chip game was definitely a thing at the Trop in AC.

I'm actually not sure what this is from.... pai gow?

Atlantic City's pink chips were originally made for the $5 blackjack games and similar. They weren't allowed to use coins at the time (dunno about now) so a 3-2 payout on a $5 blackjack would be one red chip and one pink chip.

The Trop Poker Room Manager started the Pink Chip game in the mid to late 90's in an attempt to duplicate some of the action of the California poker games. In limit, more chips tends to lead to more action, but 3-6 and 5-10 games just didn't use a lot of chips.

You were required to purchase chips from the dealer back then too, and the dealers commonly sold larger denominations to reduced the number of fills necessary. So 3-6 and 5-10 pots always looked tiny, while pink chip game pots generally looked massive in comparison.

3-6 was always fine. it's the one and two chip games (like 5-10 and 10-20) that don't work.

four-chip is almost too much. a four-chip omaha game with a kill gets pretty annoying.

3-6 would have been fine if it was all $1 chips. But because the chips had to be purchased from the dealer's rack, you'd usually get at most one stack of $1 chips and the rest would be $5's.

ok learned something new. so in rounders, when the dealer tells worm that he has to buy chips from her, she's not just saying that he can't borrow chips from a friend, he literally can only buy chips from her?

I started playing in AC in the very early 2000's. I don't remember this as I always bought chips from the cage and remember thinking it was odd the first time in Vegas when they had runners. So. I always thought the dealer was saying that worm can't take chips from someone else's stack.

Same here. Worm grabbed some of Mike's chips right from the table, which is the equivalent of Mike taking chips off the table, which is certainly verboten.

But then, for a brief time about a year ago, my local casino poker room started getting a little squirrely and discouraging players from selling chips to each other (e.g., the line for chips/cash-out was extremely long, so a guy waiting in line with $500 chips to cash in might sell them to another guy waiting to buy chips, rather than both wait in a 15-minute line). No one got in trouble, but they were warning you off of that. But they eventually dropped it.

It was that way in the mid to late 90's when I played there. I'm not sure at what point they allowed chip runners, but for several years I recall that the dealer was the only one who could sell chips.

You could NOT buy chips from the cage, and floor supervisors were not allowed to handle cash. I recall one time where this led to an outraged player when he got seated in a game where the dealer rack was basically depleted. The floorman was trying to explain that the player needed to go over to a nearby dead spread and purchase chips from THAT dealer, then carry them over to his seat at the live table. The guy kept trying to hand the cash to the floorman to do it for him, and of course the floorman couldn't handle cash. I think the player ranted for at least an hour about how idiotic this was, and how much better things were in California or Vegas or wherever.

But in that Rounders AC scene I think they're trying to highlight that Worm's action is violating table stakes rules, and that Atlantic City's gaming rules were very strict.

Sounds like some low limit **** that needs to be ****ed

I thought I was near dead a number of times but got lucky once or twice, and that's all it took to get through 3 or 4 levels of card death. Not true card death, but hands I don't want to shove, like weak aces or suited connectors with big gaps.

I won a whole 600 bucks from a $400 entry.

A win's a win. Well done.

Thanks. Oh yes, much better result than recent events.