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Reader comments talking points We want to hear from you. Visit vegasinc.com to post your opinion. On Eli Segall's April 30 vegasinc.com story about Firefly's fluctuating health inspection grades ("Firefly, closed over salmonella poisonings, has had health lapses in past"): Firefly obviously needs to take food safety more seriously. Shame on ownership. This smacks of an absentee owner and lazy management on a daily basis. I simply won't eat at a Firefly again sam morris until I'm assured that a lot has changed for the better. — Joan Respondi (JoanRespondi) In the past eight years, there have been 10 As, 3 Bs, and 3 Cs for that location. Not horrible when considering the fluctuations other restaurants exhibit. — James P. Reza (James_P_Reza) On Ed Komenda's May 1 vegasinc.com story about Station Casinos launching Ultimate Poker, Nevada's first legal poker website ("Online poker: The perks and pitfalls of being first in the country"): The service isn't great. For one thing, half the time it thinks I am not in Nevada. For another, they offer no practice (play for free) tables, which would be a huge draw for getting people from out of state to set up accounts to play on when they are in state. The interface is just OK, not great, and most of their pages besides the poker tables themselves open up in Internet Explorer, and I get "script errors" every time they do. They also require your Social Security number to sign up, which most poker players won't want to provide. Finally, half the time their pages are making Internet Explorer crash. Overall, it's a poor experience compared with the offshore sites. — fred2013 I was hoping this would never happen, but it did. As usual, CEOs are utterly clueless when it comes to technology, although they like to fancy themselves as mastering the latest bells and whistles. You can buy — online, cheap — extremely complex, sophisticated poker analysis software that analyzes each hand played (you just enter the data when the cards are turned over) and tells you the statistically optimum play to make. Some do even more than that. For example, they let you save play data for individual players, then it gives you directions based on analysis of that person's patterns next time you see him online. Combine this sort of thing with teams of people playing collaboratively, and you have a disaster for the average, unsuspecting player. There are students at MIT who have actually dropped out of college to play online poker full time, and they make tens of thousands of dollars per weekend, using their own software that is so sophisticated there aren't a dozen people in the world who could duplicate or crack it. Many families will be destroyed by this horrible, idiotic idea. — Ron Morgan (ronmorgan7) It will be fun to watch this fall flat on its face. Fact is, poker players want to play at PokerStars for a reason. — indio On Ray Brewer's May 3 lasvegassun.com story about high school students spending prom night on the Strip ("In Las Vegas, this is how we do proms"): Only a very small minority of students celebrate senior prom in this manner. Many students don't attend prom. They are working, they are focused on graduating. They cannot afford it. The majority that do get rides from friends or parents, have dinner at Red Robin or Applebees, stay the evening at the prom and enjoy one of the transitions to adulthood simply and reasonably. Some schools are even getting into the "closed" prom/senior celebration due to the risks of teens drinking and driving. Reasonably priced tickets cover music, food, beverages, entertainment in a closed atmosphere. No dropping in/out to refresh that booze, just stay and enjoy your friends and atmosphere. — Pat Hayes (wharfrat) WE FELL IN LOVE WITH DOWNTOWN YEARS AGO. Years before The Beat Coffeehouse, Symphony Park, Downtown3rd Farmers Market, Lady Silva, Le Thai, MOB Bar, Globe Salon and all our favorite downtown spots made the area cool again, Faiss Foley Warren was already here. We are proud to work with and represent many of the landmark projects and small businesses that are changing the downtown experience. As downtown residents since 1997, Faiss Foley Warren has even more reasons to love our city's true center of community, culture and commerce! www.ffwpr.com 24 20130513_VI24_F.indd 24 | 1 3 M AY 2 0 1 3 | 5/9/13 2:19:42 PM