Las-Vegas-Caesars-Palace

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History is on track to repeat itself. Just like the fall of the Roman Empire that is the inspiration for Caesars Palace, the poker room at Caesars is headed for a big fall. The main problem is the management, from the floor supervisiors to the director of poker all the way up the ladder. Before I go into the bad areas let me take a moment to praise the good things. The minute you walk in to the room you will meet the best and friendliest staff of any room in Vegas. Michelle, Lexie, Ledi and the rest of the board operators do a great job of handling sign-ups, starting games and seating players. They even walk the players to their seats and bring their chips to the tables. Great service with a smile. Now once you are seated you will meet some of Vegas' best dealers, nice friendly, competent and just the right balance of table talk. And the players at Caesars are a great mix of some of the best and worst players in town along with a great mix of tourists. Now for the hard truth about the bad. Almost everything negative with Caesars poker room can be traced back to when Jim Pedulla was named director of poker. His first act as poker room manager was to increase the amount the house takes on tournaments. Next, and I have been told this was a decision on managements part, but it still concided with Mr. Pedullas appointment, players are now served only well drinks (the cheap stuff), no more call brand drinks. Additionally, Mr. Pedulla has surrounded himself with a young uninformed floor staff, who have no idea what they are doing. Ruling that should be clear and simple as well as consistant, become a roll of the dice. If you need a floor ruling it is a crapshoot mostly coming up craps. The floor personnel do not even know the basics or the posted house rules. If you show them where the house rules are written in black and white on the wall, more than one has questioned why that is a house rule, and they are questioning me for showing them and not the management that wrote them!!! Now for the worst of all. Jim Pedulla does not hold any of his floor staff accountable for anything they do. If they award high hand jackpots to non quailifing hands, he doesn't care. Since it is the players money and not the casinos he thinks its great that people are getting paid. (I swear this is true, I tried to tell him about where one of his Hitler Youth Group {the floor personnel} paid a high hand jackpot to a hand that did not use both hole cards as required by the rulews written on the wall and his only response was "well at leats someone got paid for a high hand"). On this same note I will add a disclaimer to the next statement as at this point it is only rumor (I have not been able to find indeputable evidence,yet. key word being yet). But the word going around is that the second chance drawings for tournament players has been rigged on at least one occasion. And while people were dismissed from thier jobs no criminal charges have been brought.

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