I’m still not sure if this email I had tonight is genuine.
For a start, if Terrible’s really has live poker, I’m quite disappointed that this mailer didn’t come with a picture of Mr Terrible wearing sunglasses and an iPod. They usually make an effort to dress him up whenever possible, and this would be a perfect opportunity.
But let’s assume this is for real (they routinely spell my name wrong on emails this way, so that goes some way to verifying the authenticity).
How on earth did they find space to put in at least one poker table? It’s pretty cozy in there already.
The sportsbook is so small it has about half a dozen seats and the pit is perfectly crammed into the middle of the action so that if you want to play Wheel of Fortune and roulette at the same time, I’m pretty sure you’d be able to. And if there happens to be a line for the cashier (particularly likely on paycheck day) snaking through a tightly arranged grid of video poker machines at least gives you something to lean on while you wait.
They’ve recently moved the player’s club out of the broom cupboard next to the gift shop into a kiosk on the casino floor, but I can’t see that space being any use for poker. It’s not much larger than six feet square.
The mailer says “see casino pit for details”, not “see poker room”. They clearly don’t have any pretensions of being the Bellagio (thank goodness). It might just be one table. And you might have to ask for directions.
There’s just nowhere I can think that even one table could go without needing to get rid of either slot machines, table games or space in the bingo hall, and I can’t see any of those happening for a game that (according to the coupon on this mailing) has a $20 minimum buy in.
That would make it one of only two such recession-busting poker games in Las Vegas (the other is a single $1 blind no-limit Hold’em game at Bill’s). I can’t wait to see what games are on offer, and what kind of clientele it attracts.
I can’t find any other details about this. Nothing on Terrible’s own web site, or any of the usual suspect Las Vegas poker blogs. I might actually be the first to break this massive poker news in the whole of the “blogosphere”.
Oh how I hate that word.
However, to be fair, I’d be surprised if any other bloggers were on Terrible’s mailing list, let alone had ever stopped by for a 99c coffee and Krispy Kreme special.
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