I am extremely excited about playing in Las Vegas again. We go every year and I always have to visit the Venetian to play a little poker. The room is so well put together and they treat the average guy like gold. I still cannot figure out why the other rooms don’t take the hint. How difficult is it to treat someone with a little respect?

I have been over to the Bellagio and Caesars and they have the same air of arrogance in their poker rooms. It’s all about the money. We get that but it doesn’t mean that you can’t treat your guests well. What the casinos don’t seem to understand is that the poker community talks. If I have a bad experience somewhere I am going to tell my friends. More importantly I am going to blog about it and hit the forums.

Caesars has developed a really poor reputation for mediocrity in their poker room. You would think the manager would take a little time to read the forums and a few blogs to really get an idea of where they stand but they just keep marching with indifference. Same with the Bellagio.

You get none of that at the Venetian. The place is great and there is no tolerance for BS. If you get un-orderly you will be asked to leave. I love that in this day of the “me first and I don’t care” generation. I am really stoked about playing the noon tournament with 40 min levels and $7500 in starting chips for a $130 buy-in. That’s awfully hard to beat. They have so many really good tournaments that are extremely well run.

Whatever happened to the time when competitors learned from each other?

Curtis III