Las Vegas long weekend trip! Need tournament advice!
Hey everyone,
So I have decided to take a last minute trip to Vegas this coming weekend, probably Thursday to Monday and I am trying to look for tournaments for while I am there but was hoping for some advice as well. I come across poker atlas and the only ones so far that I am interested in are at the venetian and the Aria. Are there any other games going on that you know of that are worth checking out, say under $300 buy in each tournament. Don't really care about time of day. Or even any input from anyone who has played any of these games, id appreciate it.
Also where is a good place to play 1/2 and 2/5 no limit on the strip?
Thanks in advance.
So I have decided to take a last minute trip to Vegas this coming weekend, probably Thursday to Monday and I am trying to look for tournaments for while I am there but was hoping for some advice as well. I come across poker atlas and the only ones so far that I am interested in are at the venetian and the Aria. Are there any other games going on that you know of that are worth checking out, say under $300 buy in each tournament. Don't really care about time of day. Or even any input from anyone who has played any of these games, id appreciate it.
Also where is a good place to play 1/2 and 2/5 no limit on the strip?
Thanks in advance.
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Make sure you check out Aria, I missed it last time and regret it!
Every trip report from Vegas on here always included how great the Aria daily tourneys are. Don't miss it. I've stayed there last few times I've been down and certainly don't regret it, except when they try and charge me for stuff I haven't touched. But that's a tech issue I understand they're working on.
Another question is, do they allow headphone at the cash and tournament tables in vegas or no?
Yes.
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Fields and cash games at Venetian are waaay down since Adelson took his stand against legalizing online poker.
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For dailies I wouldn't do anything other than Aria or Venetian.....but maybe add PH, as they are the new Caesars.
Do Arias daily tournaments usually fill up? It says 100 seats, but I would be a little disappointed if it ran and only had 40.
Also looks like ill be staying at excaliber, its our usual cheap hotel thats not circus circus or Imperial Palace. That said, will I really earn any comps just from playing poker, or do they mostly come from table games and slots?
Im hoping to have some comps for my room by the end of stay, as I already have thursday comped and decent rates on the remainder of the stay, but hey if I can get away half price or less ill be pretty happy.
thoughts?
Last time I played at excalibur it was still live dealers (last day of it actually!) and they were pretty generous with the dinner voucher - but you obviously aren't travelling 3000km to play @ woodbine
Also, on a side note, would anyone be interested in a bap while I am down there? All prices would be 1:1 no mark up and based on conversion paid on the money used.
I still have some bap money I need to use up from bills game, Im on a winning note there anyways, so I think it would be best to use that seperatly here in canada, and a seperate one in vegas. Any interest?
From a 2+2 thread:
When did they go back to pokertek?
Unless you don't know they dumped the pokertek tables after about a year and put regular tables back in over 2 years ago.
Aria comps $1/hr and $2/hr in the mornings. Google bravopokerlive to see what each room offers.
However, poker room comps are not shared on the mlife card. You have to spend them where you earn them and you usually have to ask for a comp to be printed at the poker room (hellooooo 1995?). Comps for table games and slots are shared. mlife does not give you credit for sports bets either.
Totalrewards comps earned are good anywhere, even Canada to US. Most TR rooms comp $1/hr. Any money spent in their casinos earns comps, gift shop, sports book, restaurants. Also the TR card gives discounts in many restaurants, even ones you might not think, like Le Burger Brasserie, so always ask if the restaurant takes the TR card.
Oh wow, good shit. I didn't hit the south end at all on the last trip, had no idea they took them out. Like I said I was there on the last day before it went digital, the dealers were obviously pretty upset about it so I remember it well.
Another oddball suggestion... but seriously... If you want 1/2, play that live game at the excalibur. I have never seen such an inordinate amount of people willing to stack off with top pair as in that game. My theory at the time was that it was all parents trying to sneak in an hour of hold em before they go back to their "vacation". That was years ago mind you, but its still the "family friendly" destination!
So Aria says their thursday and friday games at 12pm have an average turnout of 100 players. The buyin is $125 but only $97 goes to prize pool. so the average prize pool on these games is $9700. Their 7pm games have a turnout of 60-80 players. Therefore those games have a prizepool of $5820-$7760.
The Venetian Thurs game at 12pm is $150 with $119 going to the prizepool, and with the numbers going down, I was told they put in a 10k guarantee. Their 7 pm game is a $200 buy in with $161 going to the pot and also a 10k guarantee.
The friday games at the Aria are the exact same as above, but the venetian games are both $200 a piece 12pm one being a $50 bounty and the 7pm being a regular freezeout, but this time on the friday both games are $20k guarantee now.
I cant decide which games to play, what do you all think, what makes most sense and bang for the buck? I am thinking friday the venetian games for $20k make most sense but I can't decide on thursday.
The saturday I should be playing the $565 planet hollywood day 1c.
Sunday hopefully will be the day 2 of above, or i will play the Planet Hollywood $150/$25 bounty game.
Suggestions?
Sorry $2 and $3 in the mornings.
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Orly? Bravopoker shows 4 tables of 2/5 ATM.
Go for $20k.
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Also I think I have figured out my tournament schedule, let me know what you think.
Thursday - Venetian 12pm $150 $10k Guarantee
Thursday night *Aria 7pm $125
Friday - Aria 12pm $125
Friday night *Venetian 7pm $200 $20k Guarantee
Saturday - Planet Hollywood 12pm $565 day 1c $500k Guarantee
Saturday night *Aria $125
Sunday - Planet Hollywood 12pm $125 $25 bounty
Thoughts on schedule?
only jealousy. looks awesome!
BAP time for this trip?
dumb, dumb players.
Actually.......
ARIA comps $2/hr all day and $3 between 4am and 10am.
You don't need to print out your comps - they take them right off the card, unless you are going outside the room to use them.
The food is awesome there. Order off the lemongrass menu if you're in the room, and go next door to Five-Fifty if you want pizza.
But don't go just for comps, it's an action room and you can be up big or down big in a hurry, so the comps are less important. If you want to grind out comps, go play at the Flamingo or TI with the grinders and grind for jackpot hands.
Correction retracted - shoulda kept reading.
Did someone say Degen Vegas Trip?