Could be a good place to play but is a little noisy and out of control at times. Shouting by management while dealing Black Jack is disruptive of the poker tables right next to it. Management shouts all the time instead of going around an announcing blind changes etc. Management loves to play loud rock music that makes it impossible to hear the other end of the table. Of course this causes the whole room to shout. Gives you a headache. With the Poker Zone going downhill, some of the players there are now coming here. Same problems that kill the Zone is now at the Lanes: soft play, collusion, talking about hands after out and play still going on, foreign language at table, cell phone use and foul language. It seems the management is not concern about the problems and is raking in the take. I predict this room will look like the Zone in a year. Grand Rapids and Muskegon have some good rooms so you do not have to put up with the problems.

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Since this room is almost equal distance for me to other rooms, I have given them another go.

I am even more disappointed with the goings on. Dealers are allowed to play on their days off in the room. These are the some of the same dealer who look at players muck cards to get an idea of how different players play. This is very helpful information that the management sort of turns a blind eye on. I would like the State to do like the casinos and prohibit dealer play on site.

Another problem is the soft play when a couple of dealers or more are at the same table. Check downs are common when they are heads up and chops are normal.

A bigger problem is the pay offs. There is no set schedule for pay offs and the same dealers playing are sometimes the floor and make up the pay offs. One tournament had over 60 players with 7 places being paid. The problem is that the top 3 got almost 90% of the pay off. The bottom did not even make expenses. So much for the good player beating out 60 other players and being rewarded. This is not even close to casino structure pay offs, but gives a smoke and mirror illusion of big tournaments. But ones has to ask if the pay offs are slanted when the dealers are on the final table and their friends are making payoffs. This is especially true in the smaller tournaments.

This could be a good place to play with some changes. I also would like to see the State make some changes so the playing field would not be slanted or distorted. They could start with a posted pay off schedule.