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This tournament started at 10am today.... I'm so tilted because I get up early and get there at 8:30.  Update your website, and update the tournament sheets or something.  I have a sheet at home that says 9am also that I got last month. 

Some dealers at CAZ at amazing - fast, efficient, focused, and rarely making mistakes.

However, a large percentage of dealers at CAZ are just the opposite - slow, inefficient, unfocused, and making 1+ mistakes every down.

I'm getting super frustrated with some of the dealers at CAZ.  They don't pay enough attention to their job and and I feel like I have to help them, and correct their mistakes.

An example would be last Saturday in the Omaha8 tournament.  I must have corrected 3-4 dealer errors this tournament and then we get down to the final two tables.  Two players are all in so there are some side pots involved.  One guy has no low (he was counterfeited) and the dealer gave him chips for his low, then mucked his hand!

I asked what his low was... dealer kept saying he had a low.  I said what was it?!... dealer couldn't tell me and luckily the floor was there and said to retrieve the players cards from the muck.  He had no low and was eliminated from the tournament.

Stuff like this happens EVERY time I play at Casino Arizona.  I just don't understand why these dealers aren't either better trained, retrained, dealing games they are proficient at, or fired.  I pay a lot of rake to CAZ and I expect good service.  I don't expect to have to correct errors every single time I play.

/end rant

Sorry for the late bump on this topic, but does anyone know the player rate for rooms at the new hotel at Casino AZ?

Is anyone playing online poker here in the USA still? 

I've only been playing at Carbon Poker and have waited a couple weeks on a check cashout from 2 weeks ago.  Decent action but still prefer live games - especially at CAZ!

Glad to see the floor saw through that bullshit - I miss that $8/$16 game....just moved back from Cali and looking forward to getting back into that one soon enough.

Something happened last night in one of the 8/16 games that was interesting( i was at another table and got some of this info from someone on the game).
Keep in mind at CAZ you have to have actively played in a hand within a 10 minute windows of any jackpot to be eligible.

There were a couple 8/16 games , on one game a player left and a guy already in the game moved into that seat ( moved away form the blind)but didn't post or take a hand, he was then gone for a bit, he  apparently then got called to a seat in another game, eventually he returned waited again to play, left again then returned,  picked up his chips and left the 8/16 game.

Pretty quickly after he left another player on the game that he left hit four queens and was able to spin the jackpot wheel, low and behold he hit the jackpot space and won the 7750.00 so the players share that this point was over 500.00
Guess who comes running back to the table ( from another game) insisting on his players share...

confusion ensued, the players on the jackpot game insisted he had been gone for much longer than the allotted time, he insisted otherwise, eventually it was figured out that he indeed hadn't played a hand in longer than tha allotted time...guess you should have just posted and played while you were waiting for your other seat .

Apparently Glendale is going to try to appeal the last ruling that was in favor of the Tribe to try to stop the casino from moving foprward.

"Glendale City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday to petition the state Supreme Court to hear its appeal against a tribe that wants to build a casino near the city's sports and entertainment district."

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2011/05/11/20110511glendale-petition-supreme-court-casino-land-brk.html#ixzz1MM4IipfV

The time line so far:

• 2003 - Tohono O'odham Nation buys 135 acres at 95th and Northern avenues under a holding company.

• January 2009 - Tribe rolls out renderings of 600-room resort and casino near Glendale's sports and entertainment district and immediately files application with U.S. Department of Interior to designate the 135 acres a reservation.

• April 2009 - Glendale City Council votes 6-1 to oppose tribe.

• July 2009 - Tribe sues Glendale to void city's claim that 46 of the 135 acres was annexed by the city and is within its jurisdiction.

• March 2010 - Maricopa County Superior Court rules in Glendale's favor on annexation issue, which forces the tribe to scale back its Interior application to 54 acres and eventually to scale back casino plans to one-third its original size. The tribe is appealing the ruling.

• March 2010 - The tribe files a lawsuit against the Interior, claiming it's stalling the tribe's application.

• July 2010 - Interior accepts tribe's application to designate the 54 acres as a reservation.

• September 2010 - Glendale, Gila River Indian Community and five Gila tribal members sue the Interior over its decision. State legislative leaders later join the suit. Interior holds off formally designating the land a reservation until legal challenge settled.

• Feb. 2 - Gov. Jan Brewer signs a bill, which will allow Glendale to annex the tribe's land 90 days after the legislative session's end. If annexation happens before the land is designated a reservation, it could stop the tribe as it can only seek to take unincorporated land into the reservation.

• Feb. 10 - Tohono O'odham sues the state over the new law, calling it unconstitutional.

• Feb. 14 - State Attorney General Tom Horne and the Gila River Indian Community file a lawsuit, claiming the Tohono O'odham plans would break the state's compact that outlines rules for gaming operations on reservations.

• Feb. 23 - After two years on the sidelines, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community comes out against the proposed casino.

• March 3 - U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell knocks down Glendale, Gila River and others' legal challenge and rules in favor of the Interior, upholding its decision to take the land into the reservation system. Gila River and Glendale indicate they will appeal.

• May  2011 - Judge David Campbell ruled that neither Glendale nor the federal government can touch the tribe's land until after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules on the appeal from Glendale and others.
The city, state legislative leaders, the Gila River Indian Community and the Arizona Attorney General are appealing a U.S. District Court ruling this spring that upheld the federal decision to place a portion of the tribe's land, 54 acres, into the reservation system.Glendale said if the land was taken into the reservation system on May 16, the city's appeal of that designation would be rendered moot.

The federal government argued if it was prohibited from taking the land into the reservation system on May 16, Glendale could seek to annex the property. A bill passed in the recently ended legislative session would allow Glendale to annex the property without the tribe's consent.
The federal government argued that such action by Glendale would effectively void its decision that the land qualified to become a reservation.Campbell said he found merit in both sides and thus opted to stop either side from acting until appeals are settled.
"The public interest is best served by maintaining the status quo," he said.That decision means the tribe can't move on its casino plans for months, if not longer.Arizona Court of Appeals

The court ruled Tuesday that Glendale has no claim to a 46-acre strip of land the Tohono O'odham Nation purchased for its casino. The tribe had acquired 134 acres, but scaled back the project when nearly a third of the property came under dispute.
Glendale claimed a strip of the tribe's land was annexed by the city in 2001. That was a stumbling block for the tribe, which under a federal settlement, could only acquire unincorporated land for a reservation.

Glendale argued the annexation automatically took effect 30 days after the city approved it. The city argued that was despite any court challenge to stop the annexation.
The Tohono O'odham Nation argued that because the city annexation was timely challenged by the landowner and the annexation subsequently repealed by Glendale before a court could rule on the challenge, the annexation was never final nor effective. A three-judge panel agreed with the tribe, reversing a Maricopa County Superior Court ruling last year.
The lower court had sided with Glendale. The tribe now has control over all 134 acres. But the city may appeal.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2011/05/06/20110506glendale-casino-court-rulings.html#ixzz1MM398CYC

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/2011/03/11/20110311tohono-oodham-plans-casino-anything-typical.html#comments#ixzz1MM1KTXTw

181 in the Tuesday night MTT, extremely high turnout , highest that i can remember in a long while.