NL games in Vegas

[Fredo]

Hi there,

Just wanted to know if anyone who visits vegas regularly knows which NL games they run on the weekdays - and where i would get the best action.

I'm leaving in a couple of weeks and I'll be staying at Mirrage. But I take it the best NL action is elsewhere? I was looking for 2-4NL and 5-10NL.

Thanks for any help.

Regards,
Fred

[Photoc]

NO limit games are as follows: EVERYWHERE! lol

The ones I suggest:
Mirage 2/5 blinds. 100-300 buy in
Palms 2/5 blinds. 100-500 buy in
Bellagio 2/5 blinds 200 min/max buy in
Bellagio 10/20 blinds. 600 minimum buy in, no max
Excalibur 1/2 blinds. 100 min/max buy in (lots of seen it on TV tourists)

I think the Golden Nugget, Imperial Palace, Flamingo, and Horseshoe are all running decent games as well. Never played in any of them though.

Stay away from the $50 ONLY buy in at the luxor with 1/2/2 blinds.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

try the aladdin for small games too. fish city.

al

[Cooling Heels]

"Stay away from the $50 ONLY buy in at the luxor with 1/2/2 blinds."

Out of curiosity, why?


Never played the NL there, but the structure appears silimiar to what I play on Party.

[betgo]

I don't know why to stay away, but the max buyin for the 1/2 on Party is $100. On Stars and Paradise it is $200.

[Cooling Heels]

The Luxor allows you to rebuy after falling below $50, so
it works out the same as Party. For example, you can post
$2, muck a bad hand, then buy another $50.

I've played limit poker at the Luxor before and found the
players to be an interesting mix. A large number of pensioners play there because of some type of comp program, a large number of young guys with sunglasses who drink away as if prohibition returns next week.

The 3 blind structure sounds a little strange, but other than that rule it should be similiar to Party.

[Ghazban]

If you can only buy-in for $50, $5/orbit (posting three blinds of 2/2/1) is a pretty big chunk of your stack. If you fold for 10 orbits, you lose your whole buy-in whereas, on Party, you can fold every hand for 33 orbits before you go broke. Even if you immediately rebuy in the Luxor game, you're still only 20 orbits from blinding away your stack.

I haven't ever played it (haven't even been to Vegas yet-- going for the first time in a couple weeks) but a $50 buy-in with 2/2/1 blinds seems ridiculous to me.

[PokerFink]

I'm amazed by how short-stacked these games are. In AC, the 1/2 games have $300 max, the 2/5 have $500 max. Deep stacks is so much more fun.

[Photoc]

Ghazban answered the question for me. I mean, what can you do with 50 bucks and 3 blinds every round? It's a 1/2 or a 2/4 game in reality.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

The blinds at the luxor are 1-1-2 not 2-2-1. I strongly recommend not playing there. Their promotions bring tons of locals who are CONSTANTLY there, and even if they aren't very good, they are still way better than the moron tourists. I have been playing at the aladdin and it's fish city there, try it.

Excalibur also has better games than luxor.

al

[vegasbob]

what limits are they playing at the aladdin

[trillig]

When I last played in the Luxor NL, it was 1/1/2, this was about 6 weeks ago.

I didn't care much for it, but left ahead 3 out of 4 times.

The Station casinos (that have poker) are doing NL too, I was at Sunset for 4 hours Friday night...

-Bri

[Ghazban]

In no-limit games, do they take a rake or charge time? That might vary from room to room but I'm curious. Maybe its purely psychological, but I'd rather have a rake than time as, with a time charge, I'm overly aware of how fast/slow the game is moving and paying time when I haven't seen a flop is always disheartening.

[Al_Capone_Junior]

1-2 $100 max and 2-5 $300 max. Both games were going last night and were very fishy, I won about $315, most of it on two hands. They usually have the 1-2 going all the time, except maybe early daytime. The 2-5 has been going on weekends at night. The room has only been open for a week so it's almost all tourists right now. 4-8 has also been pretty juicy, I won about $200 in that game a couple nights ago.

al

[Al_Capone_Junior]

for all their fairly small games it will be a rake, not a time charge. If they happen to spread a game 30-60 or higher it will be time, but being so new that hasn't happened yet. The management will spread whatever they can round up players for, including middle and high limit games, and/or mixed games.

al

[Ghazban]

Thanks for the info. Just two more weeks until I get out there /images/graemlins/cool.gif

[pdavester]

[ QUOTE ]
NO limit games are as follows: EVERYWHERE! lol

The ones I suggest:
Mirage 2/5 blinds. 100-300 buy in
Palms 2/5 blinds. 100-500 buy in
Bellagio 2/5 blinds 200 min/max buy in
Bellagio 10/20 blinds. 600 minimum buy in, no max
Excalibur 1/2 blinds. 100 min/max buy in (lots of seen it on TV tourists)

[/ QUOTE ]
Just for clarification the mirage NL game just changed to $100-$500 buy in. Still 2/5 blinds though.

And its rumored that Ballys has a good NL game as well. I think its 1/2 blinds $100-$200

[AllVegasPoker.com]

New room at the Aladdin? This is exciting! I've been waiting for the Aladdin to open a poker room. I'll see you there Al Capone Junior.