From VitalVegas:
Obnoxious. They don't want you recording the show, so they make you put your phone in a "Yondr" case they provided, which you physically hold, but makes your phone unusable and inaccessible while in the theater.
This is dumb because a recording of a live concert is simply not the same as being there. It's the same reason you wouldn't want to watch someone's cell phone recording of a baseball game from the stands, even if you could watch it live. The entire reason to go is to be part of the entire experience, and to hear the performer live in front of you. Otherwise, you might as well just listen to the (better quality) music which was already recorded for commercial sale/airplay.
Their excuse is probably that people are causing disturbances with their phones, such as taking flash photography, receiving phone calls, and hurting people's eyes with bright screens. But that's bullshit. These are minor inconveniences, and they can advise everyone to keep their brightness down and ringers off, and not to use flash photography, and even provide a number to text to report anyone not listening. Or they could just ignore it and realize that not everyone around you at a live concert will be pleasant, and that's the way it goes.
But this is complete bullshit. What if you're expecting and important text? What if you want to check on your kids back in the room every so often? You have to leave the concert and go to a designated space to even look at your phone?
Get the fuck outta here.
By the way, in the 2000s, they did not allow any kind of phone usage at the table at the WSOP. They eventually realized that smartphones were a part of life, and put an end to that rule. Now the only rule is that you can't touch it while you play in a hand, and that you can't talk on the phone unless you step away from the table.
This rule is very regressive.
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