Tournaments in Vegas?

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has any good tips about what the best tournaments in Vegas are. I am looking for tournaments with a good structure, that does not move too fast. I'm not sure how the lower limit tournaments stack up as far as this goes. As far as tournaments at around $500 entry or less, how do they all stack up? Thanks for any replies.

Mark

[freemont]

http://www.pokerupdate.com/lasvegas.htm

this'll give you a good starting point. The daily binions is decent, weak fields, 2500 in starting chips after add ons 110$ starts at 2pm I believe...

[McMelchior]

Only weekly tournaments I came across earlier this month in Vegas with a good structure are:

Mirage Poker Zone Thursday $230 + (one) $200 rebuy 7 PM. They have tourneys Mon thru Wed as well, but they have unlimited rebuys.

Bellagio daily tournaments. They are supposed to be $530 Mon thru Thur and $1,060 Fri thru Sun, but when I was there they upgraded the $530 to $1,060 because of the enormous interest.

The down side (for me) of the Bellagio tourneys was, that alternates was admitted into the tournament all the way through the first 3 levels (two hours), adding 100 new players to the original 130 starters. Of course that inflated the prize sum substantially, and brought a constant influx of increasingly short stacked players into the field. But - I found it emotionally frustrating having to play for two hours, busting out several players, and in the end seeing exactly the same number of players in the tourney.

Best,

McMelchior (Johan)

[Pulplife]

The Orleans has a great ~$100 tourney.

Go to their web site. They not only give you the schedule, but also the blind structure.

It was the best structure I found at that buy-in level ($500 or less).

EDIT: BTW, it is a bounty tourney ($10 for everyone you bust). I got half my buy-in back with this bounty system (along with taking 8th of 275).

[McMelchior]

The Orleans weekly tournaments are - unfortunately - NOT great. I haven't played the Orleans Open, which might be OK though.

1) The dealers are the worst I have experienced. Because of inexperienced or just plain sloppy dealers there is an amazing number of mis-deals and the number of hands per hour goes WAY down. With only 15 minute level during rebuy period and 20 minutes later on I've experienced seeing as little as 6 (six) hands during one level. The blinds escalate pretty much as fast as online, but you only see a third of the hands.

2) The Orleans keep up to 25% of the buy-in; no other Vegas Casino takes such a vigorish out of a $100 tourney.

3) The tables suck. Eleven people (and quite a few heffers among) have a hard time squizing in, and the synthetic speed cloth they use is gross.

I used to be fond of the Orleans daily tournaments, but the level has declined so low I'm not bothering to play them anymore.

Best,

McMelchior (Johan)