Stratosphere down the drain

Joe Marquis

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Feb 20, 2001, 9:20:04 PM2/20/01

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According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the Stratosphere poker room is
history on March 2nd.

They are replacing the room with "more profitable games".

Joe

Terrence Chan

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Feb 20, 2001, 9:22:56 PM2/20/01

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Okay, so now where do you go to find a low-blind NLHE game in Las
Vegas?

--
Terrence Chan
http://www.sfu.ca/~tchand/

"It profiteth the wise, to be deemed a fool."
-Oceanus, Aeschylus' _Prometheus Bound_

Robert Choquette

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Feb 20, 2001, 10:52:03 PM2/20/01

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> According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the Stratosphere poker room is
> history on March 2nd.
>
> They are replacing the room with "more profitable games".

Bummer. Stan Baker and his staff had an up-hill fight to keep that room
afloat for as long as they did (I dealt there last summer). The casino is
in a horrible location (caught between the Strip and Downtown, but belonging
to neither); and the room was in a remote corner of the casino. Upper
management rebuffed almost everything Stan tried to do to make the room more
successful. His requests for better signage within the casino (pointing the
way to the poker room) were ignored; his requests to move the room closer to
the pit area (where players might actually SEE it) were ignored; his
proposal of putting flyers and coupons in the hotel rooms themselves (as
keno, R/S, and other departments routinely do) was similarly ignored.

Clearly, Carl Ichan inherited a property that included a poker room, and he
had no wish to support it. When Ichan opened Arizona Charlie's East, the
absence of a poker room was conspicuous. To read that the Strat is
replacing poker with "more profitable games" comes as no surprise.

I wish Stan Baker and his soon-to-be-former staff well.

Bobby Choquette

NolanDalla

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Feb 20, 2001, 11:03:55 PM2/20/01

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Next time it catches on fire, let it burn to the ground. RIP.

-- Nolan Dalla

Bill Vanek

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Feb 21, 2001, 5:23:39 AM2/21/01

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:22:56 -0800, Terrence Chan
<terren...@telus.net> wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 02:20:04 GMT, "Joe Marquis"
><marat...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>
>>According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, the Stratosphere poker room is
>>history on March 2nd.
>>
>>They are replacing the room with "more profitable games".
>
>Okay, so now where do you go to find a low-blind NLHE game in Las

This is getting confusing now, but I'll try to get it right:

The Plaza will now have pot limit every night except Monday and
Wednesday (although one or more of those nights could be no limit).
Sam's Town still has pot limit on Saturday night. Binion's is supposed
to start a 1-2 no limit game on March 2, and they will spread it any
time they have enough players.

roGER

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Feb 21, 2001, 10:37:54 AM2/21/01

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Great points - It was a friendly and well run room but the location was abysmal
- you had to really look hard (and ask once or twice) to find it...

The Strat itself is a well maintained and surprisingly elegant casino but (like
the poker room) its location is dire - there's close to zero walk-in trade and
the area around it is a little scary by day and frightening at night...

- roGER