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The Majestic Star, formerly known as the Trump casino, boasts that it will spread any game that its players request. Poker Supervisor Mike DeLeon summed up the Majestic Star's mantra as the following: "If you spread the word, we'll spread the game."
The poker room itself is quaint, fitting in 21 tables. However, some of the tables are antiquated in that they are designed for stud, causing complaints among the dominant hold'em specialists that come to play. These stud tables have seating for only 9 and lack automatic shuffling machines, which results in dealers hand-shuffling between every hand.
While normally, this would not be a big issue, the Majestic Star charges time for its no limit games rather than a flat rake, making the amount of hands seen per hour an important factor in play. Furthermore, the time charge is relatively steep - $6/half-hour at their $1/2 blind, $100 restricted game, $7/half-hour at their $2/5, $300 restricted game, and $8/half hour at their $5-10, $600 restricted game. Along with no limit hold'em, the poker room also spreads 3/6 and 5/10 limit hold'em on a daily basis and a 3/6 pot limit Omaha game.
In addition to cash games, the Majestic Star features weekly tournaments at Monday at 7pm and Wednesday at 1pm for $85+15 with a $40 rebuy. It is also currently running a $25,000 freeroll for players who have the top hours in their player card promotion and promises to host some WSOP satellites for next year's event.
As far as the general atmosphere of the room, there is an eclectic mix of people to say the least. Because of the wide selection of games, the players range to those trying their hand at live poker for the first time to players who are making a steady living in the higher games. Similarly, the dealers and floorpeople are generally excellent, but there are a few bad seeds that have trouble regulating the games. I have frequented the Majestic Star on a number of occasions, and have seen verbal abuse, physical threats, and requests for new setups or table changes go unnoticed by the floor on more than one occasion. Whether this is an aberration or the norm is difficult to say, but one thing is for sure; actions that go unchecked at these tables (dealers giving advice on hands, players threatening to fight other players, table talk, rude floorpeople) would never happen at any upscale casino.
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