best action right now Vegas (or anywhere)....plus a funny story

[citizennobody]

I am looking for some new mid to low limit action...4/8 to 20/40 to 2/5 NL or $200max NL...where can I find some good games in Vegas.

I always play at the Mirage & Bellagio and I have taken side trips to Mandalay Bay and CircusCircus because of highhand/badbeat jackpots...but didn't like the limits. Last may during the WSOP played alot at the Golden Nugget (that room was great) and Binions too but I suspect that downtown won't be any good right now...I have never played at the Palms, The Orleans, or Boulder Station...heard that the action can be good at times but everytime I have gone there all I saw was granite as far as the eye could see...

I am coming out this weekend for a quick jaunt and was trying to decide between driving to Phoenix (from El Paso) to flying to Vegas...I am sooooooo freaking tired of Albuquerque and online games. Let me know where yall think any action is that I may be missing.


BTW...I have been playing 10 years (since I was 22) and never had so much as a share of a bad beat even though my former home casino, Speaking Rock which Texas shut down, had the most liberal requirements in the free world. I would always be either in the bathroom or waiting for a seat or cashing my chips when it would hit. I would put in serious hours chasing the beeyatch and get nada.

Well, while I was in Vegas last May, I heard that CircusCircus had a $60,000 BadBeat so I decided to tempt fate. After playing in that crappy card room for a few hours a day for almost a week (before I would go hit the real games) I was given the chance to change tables after some of us commented that the other table looked lucky. I decided not too change tables relying on statistics and logic for probability of outcome...and I am sure you can guessed what happened next only ten minutes later...

A boyfriend/girlfriend team sat down that had never played poker before. The BF hits the big end ($29000) and the GF got table share...they tipped the dealer $50 each went on to comment that the WPT was the greatest thing they had ever seen while waiting for verication....

I bit my tongue till I bled (so did the dealer)...I wonder how much they have given back to the poker world in tuition fees now that they have found a new hobby..?

[daryn]

bad beat jackpot = lotto

[The Yugoslavian]

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I wonder how much they have given back to the poker world in tuition fees now that they have found a new hobby..?

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Something tells me you're still paying tuition...

Yugoslav

[juanez]

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The BF hits the big end ($29000) and the GF got table share...they tipped the dealer $50 each

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A $100K+ bad beat hit recently in Black Hawk where the dealer got a $4000 tip...that's even a bit light (5% would be closer to "right" IMHO), but $50 is insulting.

[tolbiny]

"A $100K+ bad beat hit recently in Black Hawk where the dealer got a $4000 tip...that's even a bit light"

This is bullsh*t- there is no way in hell i am giving some dude 5,000 for doing his job. If someone tosses you over a grand after hitting a badbeat you have no reason to complain.

[Victor]

yea....certainly dont share, because you deseved that jackpot soooooo much

[BeerMoney]

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"A $100K+ bad beat hit recently in Black Hawk where the dealer got a $4000 tip...that's even a bit light"

This is bullsh*t- there is no way in hell i am giving some dude 5,000 for doing his job. If someone tosses you over a grand after hitting a badbeat you have no reason to complain.

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Exactly. You paid for that jackpot everytime they dragged $.50 or a $1 out of one of your pots. I don't feel the need to give someone a huge tip just cause something lucky happened to me, just like I don't blame them when something unlucky happens to me.

[scrub]

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yea....certainly dont share, because you deseved that jackpot soooooo much

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I don't see the dealer tossing 1/10 of his tips into the JP box...

scrub

[tolbiny]

You play at that table- the house takes an extra rake from pots that you win to pay for the badbeat. The dealer only has a job because you play cards (and a pretty damn well paying job when you figure in tips). anyone who thinks that the guy is getting "stiffed" when you throw him a grand (read- more than a weeks worth of work for any job i have ever held in my life)- has allowed the idea of tipping to go to far.
Now i have no problem throing him 1000$ if i just won 50-100000, and yeah if your goin gto tip don't insult the guy with 50$ on 29,000, but i see no reason to throw about cash like your suddenly a high roller cause you won a jackpot.

[Phat Mack]

I don't see the dealer tossing 1/10 of his tips into the JP box...

Something else to consider is that in some rooms the dealer gets a share of the jackpot, something they usually don't mention.