Paging customers in the casino

I spent most of last night at a local casino. While I was there, a number of celebrity names were paged over the PA. I guess there's a chance that actual people named James Worthy, Peter Frampton, Sean Connery, Paula Dean, and Kevin Smith were really at the casino, but it seems more likely that someone was punking the staff.

Has anyone ever experienced this before? Are there rules/guidelines about what employees can do in these situations? Can they refuse a customer request?

I would have thought the opposite. That the staff was punking the patrons, or each other.

Frankly, I find it hard to hear any of the PA announcements when I'm in a casino. Hard to hear a cell phone too. When my wife & I get separated, we text.

Bubba Gumps in NYC asks you to use a stage name when on the table waiting list. Perhaps the casino has a poker room where you give them a stage name instead of your real name, so that when they hear their name, they're up for a spot at the poker table???

Quote: rdw4potus

I spent most of last night at a local casino. While I was there, a number of celebrity names were paged over the PA. I guess there's a chance that actual people named James Worthy, Peter Frampton, Sean Connery, Paula Dean, and Kevin Smith were really at the casino, but it seems more likely that someone was punking the staff.

Has anyone ever experienced this before? Are there rules/guidelines about what employees can do in these situations? Can they refuse a customer request?

No one would be stupid enough to fall for all of those so I think the other poster is right. BTW: if you have to use a stage name, consider these:

Rufus Leakin
Sid Dahn
Stan Dup
Al Coholic

Or that woman who just got diviorces and uses a hyphenates last name:

Wyn Slotsar-Looser

There is no poker room at this casino, though I do love poker names. At the nearest poker room, Canterbuty Park, MN, (it's limit only. yuk!), there is a regular who goes by floppopotamus. I think that one is my favorite.

I'm a big fan of casino PA announcements in general. In addition to the names, I also enjoy the irony of the ones paging a person to a location. For example "Gertrude Anderson, please meet your party at the door you came in at." In a casino with 4000 slots and 100 table games spread out over 140,000 square feet, doesn't it seem fairly likely that the problem at hand is that Gert CANNOT FIND THE DOOR SHE CAME IN AT?

Or "William Jones, please meet your party at high stakes Slots." (While you're there, ask them what the hell they're thinking when there's an open .18% HA BJ table 100 feet away in high-stakes table tames.)

Or "Confused Patron, please meet your party at the Club Mystic (Mystic Lake, MN) counter." There are two such counters, not counting the one that is part of the high stakes area or the one that is attached to the hosts' counter.

Quote: AZDuffman

Sid Dahn
Stan Dup

hehe i like both of these names.

At the Golden Gate there is a microphone for the PA on a pillar, that anybody could easily use. I've always been tempted to page Milli Vanilli or something, but never got up the courage.

Quote: Wizard

At the Golden Gate there is a microphone for the PA on a pillar, that anybody could easily use. I've always been tempted to page Milli Vanilli or something, but never got up the courage.

Be careful about going through with your temptations! I was in the casino recently and saw a poster for one of their promotions. There was a grammar error: It said "Come all four Saturday's in March and get (something)." I took out my pen and colored over the superfluous apostrophe. All a sudden a casino functionary (not security) comes sprinting over and asks me what the heck I think I'm doing. He almost had a aneurysm, he was so steaming. He demands to know my personal information, what room I'm staying in, etc. I thought he was going to make a citizens arrest over an apostrophe! I finally gave him my info after a lot of hedging, but boy, was that an experience.

Casino employees are pretty high-strung to begin with--you don't want to send them over the edge.

Thanks for warning, and the story. I've learned that the voice of caution is usually right, but the voice of fun is often louder.

By the way, if you get questioned in a casino, I don't think you need to answer them unless you committed a crime. The worst that will likely happen is they will make you leave.

Quote: Wizard

At the Golden Gate there is a microphone for the PA on a pillar, that anybody could easily use. I've always been tempted to page Milli Vanilli or something, but never got up the courage.

Wouldn't that be childish? I mean, if you're going to do a prank page in a casino, shouldn't it be for Mr. Bond to report to the high-limit Baccarat table? ;)

Tonight's esteemed guests at Mystic Lake (chronologically):

Andy Ridgley paged to high stakes BJ, then 15 minutes later George Michael also paged to high stakes BJ. I can attest that neither actually came in. I was sitting at the first table in the room. At this point, my buddy and I started keeping a list of the night's best names.

Someone whose name must be written as d'You Friezen to Sweet Temptations (the ice cream counter).

Peter Parker to the door he came in at.

I swear to God, someone whose name must be spelled as ridicu lasname (not sure how to do it, but there should be an accent on the e, LAS*nam*ay)

Gary Carter to the Buffet.

9:00pm CST someone named Huaping Wang (for clarity, the accent is on the first syllable) won one of the night's drawings. I think this one is a real name. that's the exact spelling from the screens at the casino, which means it's also on his (?) club card.

And Amber Tamblyn to the Hotel front desk.


I think you guys are right about the staff having fun with each other. Still, it works for me to see all the middle-aged women sprint to high stakes BJ. And, highlight of the night the 90 year old woman next to me caught the ridicu lasname one before my friend and I did. Also, I may or may not have taken a break from playing right after Ms. Tamblyn was paged;-)

Had so much fun with this (and a slightly positive blackjack session) that I never did make it to Canterbury today. Maybe tomorrow will be the day I win my $10K.