Advice for Luxor and similar NL Las Vegas

[mosquito]

I will be spending time in Las Vegas playing poker, mostly
limit. There is an interesting game at Luxor with a $50
buy-in (NL 1-1-2 blinds).

Anyone care to give specific advice on this structure?
Comments on other small NL games in town? The last time
there, I played a couple hours of break even (made one
fairly bad blunder) amid touristy type opposition, but
not pushovers.

Thanks. <font color="purple"> </font> /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

Ive played in one live NL game at a B&amp;M. There were only 2 blinds. The max buyin was 50$ and the BB was 4$. Not a good game.

[mosquito]

Right, the blind is out of whack with the buy-in at $4.

With this setup (1-1-2) there was a fair amount of limping,
and occasional pot raises (enough to not limp until cutoff
or so, the way I played). No way to know how typical this
was. There are a few other small NL games that I did not
look at closely.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

I would play it just like you normally play NL. The only thing i can think of is, steal w/ better hands than usual.

[Ghazban]

Is that a $50 maximum buy-in with 1-1-2 blinds? That seems absurdly low (25xBB starting stack) to me and would facilitate a move-in type of strategy even moreso than the shortstacked (50xBB) games at Party. I'll be staying at the Luxor for my first trip to Vegas in November and, if this is all they have at comparable stakes, I'd rather play NL somewhere I can have more stack to play with.

[schwza]

the excalibur has a 100 max 1/2 game that's pretty good. binion's has a 1/2 unlimited buy-in game that i wanted to play but didn't find out about until too late /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Ghazban]

Cool, thanks. That gives me some incentive to head downtown and get off the strip at least once (Binions is downtown, isn't it?-- I admit, I'm a total Vegas n00b).

[mosquito]

Thanks for all the posts. /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[nrinker]

Ive been wanting to go to las vegas and play a live game, mainly for the experience and whatnot, the thought of it seems so trash though, you less than 1 tabling compared to party poker, It just does'nt really seem like a good money decision unless its purely for enjoyment, which would be the reason I would want to go. Are the tables at vegas insanely fishy? Is there any reason to play there besides the insanely high stakes games?

[mosquito]

You don't know until you try. Yes, there is no
'multi-tabling". Yes, there are dealer tips to
contend with. Yes, you don't get as many hands.

There are some very fishy games, and the good news
is that they stay fishy higher than the net, in
my experience. I don't play Party.

Players don't jump in and out of games, you get
good tells, yada......