T8urmoney moose;305270 wroteBest thing to do is not go downtown at all. disagree......but be forewarned......u can never leave there sober...at least, that's my experience
moose Downtown is a shit hole. If you are looking for poker, downtown is not it. Golden Nugget has the only decent action but you are just as likely to be stuck playing 2-4 limit as you are a 1-2nl game and they rake every pot, regardless of seeing a flop or not. So if you want to get hosed, by all means play downtown. Binion's has a nice room - but it is completely rebuilt and not the room where the greats played, so there is zero history. There is no action. On a Friday night we waited 30 min for seats. One 2-4 limit game and one 1-2nl game only with terrible dealers and ridiculously slow service. All the other casinos are scuzzy holes with either no poker or at most 2 tables full of grumbly locals playing 2-6 spread limit. If you feel like buying a 3 foot high slushie and stumbling around drunk, with a few hundred other drunks while a cheezy show plays overhead - then you have found the place. You can do the same thing on the strip and watch the Bellagio fountain and at least feel classy.
Gottaget Thanks guys we are making plans now and this info is really helping. Does anyone know what other casinos beside Binions & Golden Nugget offer $100 & $200 buy-ins and 30+min levels during the WSOP?
T8urmoney moose;305459 wrote If you feel like buying a 3 foot high slushie and stumbling around drunk, with a few hundred other drunks while a cheezy show plays overhead I fail to see the downside?
T8urmoney Gottaget;305517 wroteThanks guys we are making plans now and this info is really helping. Does anyone know what other casinos beside Binions & Golden Nugget offer $100 & $200 buy-ins and 30+min levels during the WSOP? Here's the thread with the tourney sched's http://www.pokerforum.ca/f10/other-events-during-wsop-27688/
asxn557 I played the Binions $100 Daily Deepstack on Memorial Day weekend in May 2011. On Saturdays and Sundays it has a $5000 guaranteed pool and it had 125 runners when I played it. I thought it was really well organized and executed (when a rookie dealer was too slow, she [yup - she] got replaced). But outside of the tourney, the casino was empty and there were only 2 cash tables going.