MGM Grand Poker Room

AVP · **Joined:** Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:20 am **Posts:** 88

This thread is for general discussion/chat about the MGM Grand Poker Room.

blnewt · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 4:08 pm

My new favorite place to play 1/2NL, just a great vibe to this place and the folks are mostly here to have fun. The room is layed out just about perfect and the staff is top notch. Look for the tourists and stay away from the sharks and you'll be walkin' away w/ stacks of chips!

jose · **Joined:** Sun Jul 09, 2006 5:00 pm **Posts:** 11

This is my number two choice right behind Wynn. The overall room does have a better vibe than many others

ogmaster · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 139

The poker room always attracts me. It's a place that no matter what, I know I'm sitting with a bunch of donkeys that are just asking for me to take their money.

photoc · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 12:22 am

My only complaint with this room is the insanely long walk from the parking garage! People tell me park at NyNy, but after dealing with getting accross LVB to NyNy and then walking all the way back, it's longer. The Trop is the only decent alternative to parking closer but it's not that much closer.

ogmaster · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 139

It's a long walk from everywhere. The casino is just so freakin big. Takes me a good 10-15 minutes just to get to the poker room from my hotel room.

stabbing_the_drama · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:23 pm

I heard a really good tip once about the walking distance, though I've never tried it. Apparently, if you use Valet at the Tropicana across the street the walk is much shorter. Never tried it, I'm too cheap.

stabbing_the_drama · **Posted:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:14 pm

Ok, time to vent about an extremely bad floor decision at MGM last night (in my opinion). 1/2 No Limit game, player 1 has 40 dollars behind him, and player 2 has well over 300. Before the hand starts, player 1 gives chip runner 160 to reload up to the 200 max buyin. This money was definately live in time for the upcoming hand. Mistake 1 - Chip runner does not announce how far behind the player is. Mistake 2 - As a result, the dealer doesn't announce to the table that the player has another live 160 behind him, because he has no idea. Flop comes whatever, player 1 says "All In" and puts his 40 dollars in the pot. The player clearly only meant to bet what he had in front of him in physical chips, and may not have understood that his money on the way was in play. Player 2 calls the all in, and the dealer puts out the turn and river, player 2 wins the pot. Player 1 gets up for a smoke, waiting for his money so he can start playing again. Before the next hand starts, player 1's chips show up, and someone next to him mentions to the dealer that his money should have been live on the previous hand.

Floor person comes over, dealer explains the situation (player 1 is still not even back at the table), confirms with the table that player 1 had in fact declared himself "All In", sees that the extra money was covered by player 2, and awards the rest of his stack to player 2.

WHAT??!?!?!?!

First off, the floorperson should have waited for player 1 to return from his smoke break (he was just down the rail no more than 20 feet) to get his side of it. It was totally clear that he meant to bet what he had in front of him, and that the player 2 meant to call the 40 dollars that were bet. The hand very well may have played out differently if the bet was for 200 rather than 40.

This, in my opinion, was a horrendous example of a floorperson following the rules to the letter rather than enforcing based on the spirit of the rule, and the circumstances surrounding the particular situation.

ogmaster · **Joined:** Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am **Posts:** 139

It does seem to bit a bit of a bad call. I do think the player should have rethought of when to get more chips and to specify his all in since chips were coming. I mean if I had an extra $160 coming and I decided to go all in, wouldnt I want to have my full $200 on the table to double up? And if he didnt want that, then he should have said something about more chips coming and it'll only be for the $40, which would be the dealers call.

The floor did make a mistake in the sense that calling a $40 all in is different than calling a $200 all in. The second player was able to make an easy call and get rewarded four times over for that easy call. That is simply not fair.

The floor people at the MGM Grand have seem to go downhill since it opened. I remember last time I went, they had outlawed the "check dark" move for apparently no reason.

stabbing_the_drama · **Posted:** Sun Jul 23, 2006 5:09 pm

ogmaster wrote:

I remember last time I went, they had outlawed the "check dark" move for apparently no reason.

This is the most pointless rule of all time. Most of the dealers don't enforce it because everyone realizes the rule is terrible. I asked one of the floormen that I frequently talk to what the point of the rule was, and his response was basically that the rule was pointless and it was the poker room manager that put it in place. Also, I just remembered another totally unacceptable gesture from one of the [worst] floormen at MGM.

1 guy wants to sit at the table with his friends, so when he sits down initially he asks for a table change. The floorman's response was somewhere along the lines of "Ya know, if you want all this action, you're gonna have to help me out man! I'm like the maitere'd (sp), if you want the table by the kitchen you need to help me out!"

This was probably the most appalling gesture I've seen from a floorman. I realize that Vegas is run on tips, but, what kind of example is this to the dealers? No professionalism, totally out of line IMO. You don't hear 99.9% of dealers fishing for tips, cause if they did, they'd probably be fired. If I want a table change, and the floorman is friendly, sometimes I'll give up a buck or two but it's in no way automatic.

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