Aspers Stratford East London

[duke3016]

(apart from security, so they"re best avoided).

Oops

[DrMarbles]

This happens so often when a new place opens - they launch with a massive fanfare and a huge splash of publicity, but are actually at their least able to deal with the influx of people (new staff, untested systems) which hurts them as they get a load of people who think "this place is rubbish" and don"t come back.

One guy posted a review on 2+2 and said that their registration was so poor and took such a long time that he never even managed to play in the tournament he went down for, opting to leave instead of standing in a queue all day.

[Fatcatstu]

(apart from security, so they"re best avoided).

Oops

i will be giving this place a miss then!!

[jbworldwide]

(apart from security, so they"re best avoided).

Oops

i will be giving this place a miss then!!

coming down south for a visit then?

[Delboy]

(apart from security, so they"re best avoided).

Oops

i will be giving this place a miss then!!

You sure Stu? They have Pai Gow poker*











* this may or may not be true

[Fatcatstu]

if not it should be closed down forthwith

[AAroddersAA]

From my experience, apart from Newcastle, Asper"s are pretty poor. I can believe what Jon says (unless of course somebody actually goes there and finds it"s really nice which is not impossible).

Their casino in Swansea (10 minutes from my house annoyingly) is poor at best though, not just poker the whole lot. They seem more concerned with getting people in there to buy drink"s (it might as well be a night club sometimes). Their poker tournaments are not that well run and they have been known to run out of chips and I have heard of (not seen I should add) some questionable rulings.

if not it should be closed down forthwith

There is no Pai Gow either so I guess Stu does not have to pay a visit :-)

[Jon MW]

... They seem more concerned with getting people in there to buy drink"s (it might as well be a night club sometimes). ...

One of the facebook comments was indeed somebody saying that it seemed like Aspers weren"t sure what they really wanted - a casino, a pub or a nightclub.

[Mayfair]

I understood from an article on 5live the other day that Aspers saw this place as somewhere people will pop in and spend 20 quid while doing some shopping.