Vegas Low Buy-in Tourneys

Heading out to Vegas on Friday. I've looked through the Las Vegas Poker Rooms Reviews, Tournaments, No-Limit Holdem site and these are the two tournaments that fit my schedule and buy-in.

Friday 10pm at Treasure Island: $65 buy-in. 3.5k starting chip. 20 min blinds. avg. 30 ppl

Sunday 12pm at Venetian: $150 buy-in 7.5k starting chips. 30min blinds. avg. 90 ppl

Anyone have any experience with these smaller tourneys, especially at TI or Venetian? Or if you know of any other good tournaments either Friday night or Sunday anytime?

Comments

  • I think Caesar runs a nightly tournament, I believe it was $150 or something.
  • the Venitian poker room is really nice..i played in a300 tourney and got comped for a lunch..treasure island poker room is nothing to write home about..however Mgm Grand has a tourney at 6pm on Sundays.i believe its 65..but it,s a nicer poker room than treasure island...
  • Seventy-five percent of the regular Las Vegas tournaments are high-raked crapshoots designed for dumb tourists that just want to gambool, including the MGM Grand and Treasure Island's $48+$17 :rage: rip-offs. The best-value daily noon tournaments at The Venetian and Caesars Palace may be cancelled due to the Deep Stack Extravaganza and the incredible Mega Stack Series, so check with the casinos. If the buy-ins for these high Patience Factor series or Binion's Second Annual Poker Classic are too high for you, your best choices are Caesar Palace's $125+$25 7 PM tournaments (mentioned by westside8 ) and TI's $100+$25 tournaments. Good luck and I hope you post a tournament report.
    TiMSuM wrote: »
    know of any other good tournaments either Friday night or Sunday anytime?
  • Keep in mind with the Venetians deep stack and slow blinds, the tournament can take between 7 to 9 hours to complete, assuming you plan to win the thing.

    Email them to see if it's running, I emailed last week for information about the fall Deep stack events, and they got back to me in a few hours.

    Cheers
  • The Venetian looks decent. I am kicking myself for not skipping a day at the conference I was attending while there to go play it.
  • Thanks for the suggestions!

    The Binions has a 7-card stud on the Sunday...and I'm not comfortable dropping $150 on something I don't play very often.

    And the $540 Caesar Megastack is kind of out of my range. lol

    Sunday is going to be my gambling day so I'll stick with the Venetian tournament, I might drop the TI one on Friday for something else. Depending on how well I do with the Venetian one, I might try to get in a Caesars tournament.

    Anyone been to the 40/40 Club in Vegas? NBA Game 5 is on (it will happen! Kobe!). I need to find a place to watch it.
  • there is literally tons of tourneys in that general time frame and buy in level in Vegas...the website u listed is def the authority when it comes to Vegas tourneys, its what I used and I had no prob fillin my days(just got back from a 4 day trip). TI's tourneys are fine....2-3 tables...very soft. Also if your staying in that area of the strip try Harrahs(midnite start?), walk down to Planet Hollywood for their 2 am start(u should prob be drunk to play this--everyone else will be..lol).Also, the Mirage(where i stayed) has a nice high volume room and offers continuos sitngo STT's in 3 buy in levels--70,115,175. Played all 3 of these levels and the competition was poor....lots of cash tables to play while your waiting for the tourneys to fill and the time committment is obv less than an MTT. Cheers.....
  • So I didn't make it to any tournaments or play any poker. The Venetian Sunday tournament changed to a $1050 deep stack tourney which was way out of my bankroll. lol

    However, just a quick trip report.

    Friday - Tried the $20 tip trick with the front desk at Hilton. At first I don't think he saw the $20 but then he realized it after. There was 3 of us staying in 1 room so we originally booked a room with two doubles and someone was gonna sleep on the floor. He bumped it up so we got a much larger room with a couch and living area and threw in a rollout bed. Nothing extravagent, but it worked. Did the touristy thing and visited the hotels in the afternoon. At night, ate at Koi restaurant inside PH. Highly recommend, ask for the couch area looking outside to the Bellagio fountains. This also might be skewed to the fact that sake bombs were involved.

    Saturday - Hit up the premium outlet malls in the afternoon. Some great deals. Went to Lawry's (prime rib restaurant) at night, but it wasn't as good as the one I had in Beverly Hills awhile back. Craps at MGM after.

    Sunday - Gambling day. Played craps at Bellagio instead of playing the Venetian tournament. It treated our group well, and we weren't even betting that aggressively. However at night was another story. Craps at Luxor just smoked us. Also played craps back at the Hilton and the pit boss banned me from rolling because once either one or both of the dice continuely missed hitting the back wall. I wasn't even doing it on purpose either, it was just that the way I threw the dice, they pretty much drop dead after the first bounce and don't hit the back wall. I wasn't even winning any $ because I was betting so conservative and losing on other people's rolls. So I left the craps table for awhile and came back and talked to the pit boss to see if I can roll again. After her allowing me to roll...I hit a firebet (only 4 pts, not the full 6), but I only had $1 on it..25:1. The pit boss got on the phone right away with I don't know who and some other dude came and checked on the table. Rolled a few more times until I sevened out and stopped shortly after.

    Gambling pretty much paid for the cost of the hotel/flight/food and drinks and I only spent money on buying stuff at the outlets.

    All in all, a good relaxing trip.
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