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?
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?
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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 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.
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.