I'm currently in the middle of my 3rd shift as a prop down here, and my new position has some interesting quirks.
1. There is about as much 20-40 and 40-80 action here as at Garden City.
2. They use a must move for 20-40 games, not just 40-80 one.
3. Props don't get placed on the must move list. This results in all the props playing together in the bottom game, which is silly IMO. Basically we will have 3 20s, but the third will break when we run out of customers. Then we have 18 customers in 2 games and 6 props twiddling their thumbs. If 2 of us were in each of the games, we could support a 3rd. But nobody wants to play with 6 props....
4. We are very "open". The instant a customer wants a seat the CSR comes over and informs us. Whichever props blind is next can play until that hand but is then picked up. If someone has a button, he's gone.
5. There are no "floor men", only Customer Service Representatives. They run the games and do a good job.
6. The customers have a sweet deal. Basically the games are always full, but there is never a list.
7. I fear I'm not going to get to play enough. 5 hours per shift seems it will be a stretch.
8. Everyone is super nice.
So all in all, so far so good.
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Sounds like poker nirvana.
twiddling thumbs for a solid hourly sounds like the nuts to me.
Is that common for props to have to always sit in the feeder must-move game as opposed to being treated as a regular player? Seems odd to me, I can see a rule like no more than 2 props in a single game as long as there are customers waiting, but otherwise seems kind of silly to have only 2 games and 6 props doing nothing, when you could have 3 games 8-handed.
I'm totally with you Wacky, and I've never seen a situation like this. Apparently the props (or house players as we're called here...how quaint) were "silent" until a couple of months ago. Basically they were never picked up and nobody knew who they were. The customers apparently complained and management went with this system, which is probably a knee-jerk over-reaction.
I have been told that HG is planning a new state of the art building that will eventually have 386 tables and rival or even surpass (gasp) Commerce. I'll believe it when I see it, but such a plan would make this prop situation make sense, since management would basically be shooting solely for long term happy customers.
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