Arisia all gone...
Was at arisia all weekend. Dealt blackjack for three four hour blocks in the game room over the weekend. Big winner was a young lady who started with a bankroll of 120 quatloos, and ended the evening with around 8000. (granted part of that was her last two bets were her entire bankroll, and she got a blackjack on one and beat the dealer on the other, but winning is winning. )
DaveC gave me lots of help with improving my skills at dealing, and my thanks to him for that. He also gave me some breaks to show me things. I'll be dealing blackjack again at boskone next month.
I'm very glad arisia is at the westin now. the new place has about twice as much function space and probably about twice as many rooms as the hyatt ziggaurat had. they still used all of the rooms and needed to overflow into other hotels for sleeping rooms. But the only place that really felt crowded was the con suite and the dealers row rooms that were along the hallway to the con suite.
the con suite was in a large suite on the top floor of the hotel, and the usual con elevator problems were encountered with it. But since this hotel had seven elevators, not just the three that the old place had, the elevator going offline on sunday was not a critical problem, just an inconvenience. I think that arisia would be better served by moving the con suite down into function space. Loss of that traffic would make dealers row a lot less desirable for the dealers. Not sure what to do for dealers row to make up for that loss of traffic.
DaveC gave me lots of help with improving my skills at dealing, and my thanks to him for that. He also gave me some breaks to show me things. I'll be dealing blackjack again at boskone next month.
I'm very glad arisia is at the westin now. the new place has about twice as much function space and probably about twice as many rooms as the hyatt ziggaurat had. they still used all of the rooms and needed to overflow into other hotels for sleeping rooms. But the only place that really felt crowded was the con suite and the dealers row rooms that were along the hallway to the con suite.
the con suite was in a large suite on the top floor of the hotel, and the usual con elevator problems were encountered with it. But since this hotel had seven elevators, not just the three that the old place had, the elevator going offline on sunday was not a critical problem, just an inconvenience. I think that arisia would be better served by moving the con suite down into function space. Loss of that traffic would make dealers row a lot less desirable for the dealers. Not sure what to do for dealers row to make up for that loss of traffic.