I recently returned from a seven-day trip to Pendleton, Oregon for the annual Poker Round-Up series of tournaments at the Wild Horse Resort and Casino. It’s hard to find a card room these days that truly gives back to its customers, but Wild Horse believes in doing just this. They added a total of $75,000 to their 14 Poker Round-Up events and at 5:00pm daily, players were treated to a free dinner buffet. The card room took no house fee from the satellites and the maximum house charge for any event was $15. Bounties were awarded for busting designated celebrity players. The tournament director, Roland Walters, and his staff always make sure that players are treated well, which is why they are able to attract more than 600 players to some of their events. I’ve known Roland since his days at the Bicycle Casino in the mid-1980s. He invited Jan Fisher and me to present a poker seminar prior to the Ladies-Only tournament. We were all pleased that it turned out to be very well-attended and quite interactive. While there, I saw a few poker procedures that I would like to see adopted in all card rooms. In the live games, when ...