Vegas advice
Popping my vegas cherry on Oct 10-14. Would like some advice from the vegas veterans out there. We're going without any rooms booked, our plan is to just stay where we're playing that particular night. understanding is that you get the casino rate with a few hours of play. Is that a sound plan or should we book something before we leave? Or maybe we'll chug some redbull and do a 48/72 hr session. Which poker rooms are good for low limit action, any tournaments? And what other non-poker things/sights should we look into in case we lose all our money the first day.
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Cheers,
all_aces
There is low limit action almost anywhere. If you enjoy the big ugly family disneyland crowds try Excalibur, they've got over 30 tables with nothing higher than 4 -8. There's lots of good local-filled small entry tourneys at the Orleans. If you're looking for bigger ones the Mirage is the classiest choice and the nugget's got daily satellites to their bigger evening tourneys.
But my favorite touney (favorite cause I won it) is the cramped evening 40$ unlimited 20$RB tourney at the Sahara. Free sandwiches unlimited rebuys and unlimited COCKTAILS for your busted railbird friends as they stumble and scream for you at the final table.
Best of luck
LA Angelos
Oh and open invitation to all pokerforum members to skip work/school for a few days and join me in Sin City.
Action is all over Vegas now. Just came back from 9 days there. Excaliber, totally fun. 1-2 no limit 100.00 buy in was a blast. No big games.
Mirage and Belegio, have tons-o-tables. But nothing of the same they do not compete against each other.
Mirage, 3-6, 6-12, 10-20, 20-40, 40-80. 2-5NLH
Bel., 4-8, 5-10, 15-30, 30-60, 60-120, 5-5 nlh,
good luck and have fun
Good Luck
For low limit tourneys, if you are up for 10AM, the Plaza, mandalay bay and sunset station (out in henderson) have some well run tourneys for low buy ins. 25-50 USD. The luxor has cheap tourneys as well daily at 12pm and 830pm, but I didn't like the structure of the luxor tourneys. 250TC with 15 min limit levels for the 1st hour then no limit after that. A crap shoot, the gf busted on the bubble when we played. Binion's daily tourneys cost about $110 USD after rebuy and add on just to let you know. Gotta stop there, just because of the history.
Low limit cash games are plentiful, just be prepared to get rivered! I played 2-4 at the sunset station (old folks who are retired and just hangin out havin a good time) and made a nice profit. The tells were so obvious I couldn't keep myself in my seat! I had to leave when the gf finally busted in the ladies only hold 'em tourney.
THE poker room in vegas is at the Bellagio. I had such a great time there, just star gazing. I met TJ CLoutier, Evelyn Ng, Amir Vahidi, Mel Judah, Tony Ma... just to nae a few. It was poker heaven there. Make sure you stop by the bellagio poker room!
The hotel I stayed at had one of the better rated poker rooms in vegas, the orleans. They had a WPPA mahor tourney the week I was there, so their daily tourneys were put on hold. check out www.orleanscasino.com for details on the daily games they have there.