GBH being taken over by OLG
Today I heard Great Blue Heron is being taken over by OLG.
They said the comps would be changing. I wonder if this is beneficial for poker players or not.
They said the comps would be changing. I wonder if this is beneficial for poker players or not.
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The OLG couldn't wait to sell off Thousand Islands Casino and Georgian Downs to Great Canadian Gaming, so I'm surprised they would want to take over Casinos Austria International Ltd. in operating GBH.
Our dealer and one of the supervisors today while I was playing cash games while the tourney was running.
collected the two cards from the previous hand from the winning player!!
But I like the structure. 30 minute rounds and the blinds go up slower than at Brantford. But so much time is wasted
when the dealer makes a mistake or can't figure out the side pots.
Everyone can have a bad day, or even a bad round. We all make mistakes. I bet even you have made one every once in a while. I find when a table goes to shit (dealing wise) it really goes to shit. Might as well toss the cards and get a drink haha. Misdeals and other minor mistakes happen. That's life.
That being said, you'd be surprised how hard it can be to do math when you have 10 impatient players yelling at you simultaneously. Give the dealer a minute to get in right, and if they continue to have problems, help them as non-critically as you can. A little patience goes a long way.
If they truly are struggling with the game, then have a quiet word with a Sup or Manager. On a busy day they might not know that a certain dealer is having trouble, or even that they need help.
I will give props to the great dealers at WPT Philippines that DirtArse and I played at, which had the lowest error rate of any dealing staff, and at Playground, where I can concentrate on other players instead of having to watch out for the error-prone dealers at GBH. A few GBH regs have resorted to doing everything for the struggling dealers, but I know players are not supposed to touch other players' chips especially all-ins and side pots, and it prevents the dealers from ever improving.
Here is ONE procedure to prevent more Friedman-Lisandro ante wars:
1) put your ante right in front of you instead of tossing it to your neighbour;
2) dealer finishes the shuffle except for the last cut then puts down the deck;
2) start with seat one and collect from every stack on that side (up to 5), then collect up to 5 antes on the other side;
3) if a stack needs change, leave the chip in front of the player, then make change after having collected all the other antes;
4) spread the antes so everybody can see that the total is correct;
5) make sure that the small and big blinds are correct;
6) cut the deck then deal.
https://youtu.be/a8wsdufXUIw
click on Locations and GBH is listed, but so is Thousand Islands
I was told woodbine, Ajax downs and GBH are under the same umbrella. Nobody mentioned thousand island shores.
The table limits are usually 100 max and were posted as high as 250. A dealer mentioned they have been at 500. He was told in the new year it will capped at 2500.
I was told it's a full casino license and they can offer NL. He was told they want to stay limit for the time being.
It sure feels nice to beat BlondeFish with some casino news as he on top of everything casino related. This is a compliment, I do appreciate what he brings to the site.