[sternroolz]

I typically play $9-18 LHE in Los Angeles, and occasionally still play as low as $3-6.

Games in Vegas have always been a little tighter, but in the past two years I have seen those games loosen up quite a bit. I typically play $6-12 and $10-20 at Mirage, $8-16 at Bellagio, and have played $3-6 at nearly every downtown and strip casino.

One thing I have noticed about some Vegas regulars is they get into a rut about the time of day and location where they play. It seems that many players have an agenda of things that are not just finding the best game. Some don't like certain casinos, some don't like crowds, some don't like long waits. You have a huge number of games to choose from, you just have to move around and be more flexible about the times and where you play.

Plain and simple, daytime games tend to be tight. Late night weekend games are easy pickings. That is when you get the most tourists. That is when you get players that are drunk.

Places I have found good games include:

Alladin: Everytime I play here, and its always Friday or Saturday night, the 1/2 NL game is absolutely rolling. Last time I played, I saw a girl so drunk she was falling over pull over $800 out of the game. If that is not a good game, I do not know what is.

Binions: $3-6 on a weekend is full of drinking players that are not very good.

Luxor: I played $4-8 here and got seven bet by bottom str8 with 4 str8 cards on the board. Ridiculous. 3 of the 10 players at the table had no clue how to play poker.

Bellagio $8-16 and Mirage $3-6 and $6-12 have always been good to me. I have heard that the $6-12 is a tight game, but not on weekends with tourists, at least not in my experience. The $10-20 has clueful players who are not quite clueful enough. But you have to work a bit for the money there. It's kind of a wierd game with players who play to loose at the wrong times and two tight at the wrong times. Kind of like they try to buy the pot when the pot is very large and therefore they have zero chance to bluff and succeed, yet they check it down in small pots where a bet could have a decent chance to pick up the pot.

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I think you guys are right about game selection and what not... I'm only using a small sample from the few places I've been playing lately in Vegas (MGM, Mandalay, Wynn...) I know there are better games/games that are easier to beat(like the ones I've encountered in Arizona, Cali, and Western NY); it just seems like I haven't been able to find them lately... Oh well, like Al said...game selection... I'm gonna take a different approach when picking a game around here in Vegas...just seems like the money comes easier no matter where I sit in the above mentioned "other states".

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