A casino I can't recommend

I headed out to Harrah's North Kansas City last night to play some cash games. I had been busy the whole day doing some work, so I was pretty tired when I went there. They had 15 poker tables, of which four were being played. There was one game of $3/6 Limit, and three tables of $2/5 NL. I signed up for the NL game and had to wait about 45 minutes before I got a seat.

The max buy-in was $300, which is what I started with. Looking around the table, there were several stacks of $1k+, so I knew that some guys knew what they were doing. Right away I didn't like a few things: They played with superlong 10-man tables, where the dealer couldn't even reach the corners with their hands. The players were responsible for getting their chips to the middle of the pot if they sat in the corners. The felt was very sticky and felt generally unsmooth against the cards. Speaking of the cards, they were small-print, which forces you to look close and doublecheck your exact cards, as opposed to the big-print that most European casinos use.

I was getting the usual crappy cards and was forced to throw away my only hand I tried playing, after my 99 raise to $25 was reraised to $75 preflop. The game was not even that juicy. Out of all the live games I have played in, this was one on the tight/aggressive end. I began limping with some marginal holdings and knew I was headed for trouble. It didn't take me long to blow my stack on a weak flush draw against someone's flopped set. I wasn't getting the odds to make my play, but I ignored them and consequently paid the price. It took me $300 to discover that Harrah's North Kansas City isn't all that great. Perhaps I am just spoiled by the Concord Card Casino?