More on Revel’s bumpy start

Didn't like Revel as a property at all. IMO, Borgata is still the best joint in AC.
$2.4 Billion - think it will be one very big losing bet for Revel's investors and creditors.

There's just a lot of indicators that Revel is a poorly managed casino, no surprise at all it is doing so poorly (predicted it in a post few months back from everything I was hearing).

The rush to open before the casino was ready was a huge mistake. No beach, no gift shop to get sundries, etc. When I stayed there I asked where I could get a newspaper and was told to go to Showboat's gift shop. To top it all off the visibly sweat the action in a way that makes high rollers uncomfortable. AC has basically ****ty games...they don't need to sweat anything.

You can always tell a casino run by people who are afraid of the action. In AC only Caesars and Tropicana really aren't afraid of taking it. Even Borgata still has a touch of the Boyd sweat from time to time.

I visited the Revel recently. They still have a lot of bugs to work out on the floor. I left because the marker procedure stopped the game for almost 15 minutes. It was already unbelievably slow. They had an electronic system that I guess was supposed to be faster but everyone in the pit could have taken paper markers in the time it took to do one E-marker.

Originally Posted by Tthree

I visited the Revel recently. They still have a lot of bugs to work out on the floor. I left because the marker procedure stopped the game for almost 15 minutes. It was already unbelievably slow. They had an electronic system that I guess was supposed to be faster but everyone in the pit could have taken paper markers in the time it took to do one E-marker.

I noticed the exact same thing. They made a high roller wait 20 minutes to get chips because they could not get the electronic gizmo to work. I told the pitboss that I could have gone down to Office Depot and buy them a bunch of small clipboards in the time it took them to get the marker done on that thing.