Vegas tournaments and best structures
 

Myself and another trout will be in Vegas for a Thur-Mon stint in mid-January. We plan on trying to play in a tournament (No-Limit Hold 'Em) each day we're there.

We can afford to spend anywhere from $50 to $500 on any given tournament, assuming we play in one each day. Probably, though, we'll just aim for one $300-$500 buy-in event and a couple/three smaller buy-in events. So ...

What tournaments should we play in? I've seen a couple of Vegas on-line poker tournament guides with buy-in info, but rarely does it give tourney structure/starting chips/blind levels/etc. Obviously, we're looking for the best overall structures.

Any specific suggestions? Anywhere else I can look for this specific information?

Thanks in advance.

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The Orleans has a great tourney structure and Luxorr has a terrible structure, those are the only 2 I played when I was there.

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sahara runs a good low limit rebuy tourney at nights. I think it's like 120 total or something around there. Decent structure

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The Orleans has a great tourney structure and Luxorr has a terrible structure, those are the only 2 I played when I was there.

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Cool. What's the buyin? Starting chips? Blind levels??

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sahara runs a good low limit rebuy tourney at nights. I think it's like 120 total or something around there. Decent structure

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Again, I appreciate it ... and I'm looking for as much info as possible. Starting chips? Blind levels?

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For your bigger buy-in event, you MUST play the Wynn tournament. They have $300 on Tue and Thur and a $500 on Fri. It is the best structure you will find in town.

3000 Starting Chips
25/50 First Level
45 Minute Rounds
Cool Chips [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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For your bigger buy-in event, you MUST play the Wynn tournament. They have $300 on Tue and Thur and a $500 on Fri. It is the best structure you will find in town.

3000 Starting Chips
25/50 First Level
45 Minute Rounds
Cool Chips [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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This is EXACTLY the kind of info I'm looking for.

And, I assume, you believe this is a better buy than the Bellagio $500?

Great stuff, man.

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Orleans tournament schedule

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How many players does this usually draw & how's the competition?

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sahara runs a good low limit rebuy tourney at nights. I think it's like 120 total or something around there. Decent structure

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I'll second the Sahara suggestion if you're looking to keep the buy-in low. $40+$2 gets you 2000 chips, $20 add-on anytime in the first hour gets you 1500 more. Blinds start at 25/25, go up every 20 minutes, and don't double every time. 11am, 7pm and 11pm nightly. Big nights will have >150 players. Payouts are fairly heavily weighted to the top spots, with first getting a bit over 40%, 2nd getting less than half that. Deals at the final table splitting the prize among 3 to 9 players are common. Tourneys normally last about 5 hours.

Nice range of players from first timers who'll suck out on your AA with 63o when A82 flops because they had a "straight draw" to WSOP TV players just looking to kill a few hours in a friendly tourney.

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For your bigger buy-in event, you MUST play the Wynn tournament. They have $300 on Tue and Thur and a $500 on Fri. It is the best structure you will find in town.


3000 Starting Chips
25/50 First Level
45 Minute Rounds
Cool Chips [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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This is EXACTLY the kind of info I'm looking for.

And, I assume, you believe this is a better buy than the Bellagio $500?

Great stuff, man.

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Yes, Bellagio is 2K starting chips with 40 minute levels. The competition is about the same at each. I played in 2 Wynn tournies and won one of them and bubbled the other.

Also, the chips are no where near as cool.

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Well, so far I've got the Wynn, Sahara and Orleans down.

Any other suggestions out there???

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The 11am MGM doesn't have a great structure, but it's definitely a soft field with a good payout. $50+15, usually get around 100 entrants, top 6 get paid.

From what I recall, the structure is:
~1200 Starting Chips
25/25 First Level
20 Minute Rounds

It's also a much nicer place to sit for 3 hours than the Luxor or others at that end of the strip.

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What are the typical payouts of the Wynn Thurs tourni? Amounts and depth please?

Thanks

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What are the typical payouts of the Wynn Thurs tourni? Amounts and depth please?

Thanks

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If there are more than 50 people, they pay 9 spots. If there are less, they pay 5 spots. They may have updated this since last time I played, but I think this is still correct.

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What are the typical payouts of the Wynn Thurs tourni? Amounts and depth please?

Thanks

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I played in the Wynn tournament last Tuesday and the payout is still the same. Top 9 get paid because they usually get around 100 players. Also they are now offering the same tournament on Wednesday. So the new schedule is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday $300+30 at Noon and on Friday its $500+40 at Noon.

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Check out fellow 2+2'ers website - AllVegasPoker and go to the tournaments page.