Played 1/2/15 PLO this weekend at the new Rivers casino and played in the wildest PLO game. That's not just an 'opening weekend mistake' It's an insult to the players or it's incredible levels of incompetence How many did they schedule for that time? Literally 7 dealers? Not a single one of their 80-some dealers could be bothered to come in to work? You clearly know more about staffing than I do,īut the bottom line is at 1PM they had 6 dealers working on a weekend day First you have to pay hiring and training costs then you have to pay separation costs.

Then they have to reduce staff to match ongoing demand. Within couple of months or less novelty will wane and demand drop. While they might have the initial demand to run all tables all the time, they won’t for long. Rivers did not staff for such and it would not make sense to. Since at least some of the dealers are likely part time it would require close to 150 dealers to run every all the time. It takes 4.34 persons for each position to operate 24x7 so to run all the tables all the time would require 127.6 FTE with no overtime. SoĢ2/5 * 6 + 3 = 29.4 positions needed to run 22 tables. Also assume 3 dealers are brushing at any given time. Assume with breaks you need 6 dealers to run 5 tables. Why the slow roll with getting tables started? This is their third day, they should have tables ready to go as people show up.Ģ2 tables with 80 dealers is more than enough to keep all tables going at all times during this initial opening surgeĪctually it is not enough to run all the tables 24x7. I've been told by those who would know, that Rivers has hired anywhere from 80 to over 100 dealers

GVC will have 8-10 tables open in less than 90 minutes from now and they have a fraction of the dealers River does

(I'm sure some names are on all 3 lists, but the point still stands) It's 8:45 AM and there are 3 open tables and 31 people on the 1-3 list 27 on the 2-5 list and 14 on the PLO If they wanted all twenty-two tables up, ALL TWENTY-TWO of those tables would be up and spreading games.ĭon't buy that nonsense about 'lack of dealers'. Guys, the parent company of Rivers Casino Des Plaines, Illinois is on the stock exchange. You have many wallets in your casino at no cost and didn't have to give away any suitcases, toasters, nor grills. In a poker room, then for whatever reason, have a poker waiting list two hundred - twenty five strong - Success! Give out some 'George Foreman Grills' like Horseshoe Hammond used to do. Corporate casino goal is to get people into casino, any way they can accomplish that.

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