What limit at Mirage?

[realbad101]

I'm an online .5/1 at Party doing fairly well (8 BB/hour) and I came in at about 2.5 BB/hour last time at the Borgata in AC at $2/$4. I hear Vegas is looser. Should I consider going up a limit? I am staying / playing at the Mirage. I might go Excalibur to play with the rookie wife for a day.

[Clarkmeister]

Start with the 10-20.

[sucka]

I agree.

From what I hear though, the 15 game at the Bellagio is much better than the 10 game at the Mirage.

If you have the bankroll, I'd recommend trying both. If not, the nighttime 6/12 game at the Mirage has been good all the times that I've been there...

[Dynasty]

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Start with the 10-20.

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C'mon. This is bad advice. .50/1 online players aren't going to make the psychological leap to playing 10-20 live just because somebody tells them the games are good.

[NoRiverRats]

Go with what Dynasty, says. I go the Vegas three to four times a year, just to play poker. Anyone who tells someone with your experience to go play 10-20 at the Mirage fully intends to be there at the same time....if you know what I mean.

In my experience, the 10-20 at the Mirage is often one of the toughest games around, if you don't believe me sit at a 6-12 and ask the locals. Whoever said the 15-30 at Bellagio can be a better game is right, it can be so check it out, but be careful, while it attracks lots of people with money who are new to poker, most of the locals know this and often play the 15-30. I would recommend the 6-12 at the Mirage, it can be tough but is very beatable; 4-8 at Bellagio is wild, if you don't mind being sucked out on occasionally and can change your play to suit the game, you can do well here. I susually play the 8-16 at Bellagio and 6-12 at Mirage, and have improved my play with each trip. Have fun!

[Clarkmeister]

I'm at the Mirage every night and the 10-20 is a joke right now. It's not at all like the rocky 10-20 of yore. It's the new and improved uber fishy 10-20.

BTW, to the original poster, the 6-12 is the worst game in the room.

[Odder]

I played at the Excalibur poker room when I was in Vegas last week and took down 400 bucks in one night at the 2/6 table. It is very juicy. They even have a 4/8 game with a half kill and a $100 NL game. Your wife will be happy there and you can easily make a killing at the tables. Plus, Excalibur gives a spin on the wheel ($20-300 range) if pockets Aces are cracked or if you have a 4 of a kind or better.

[sucka]

BTW, to the original poster, the 6-12 is the worst game in the room.

Wow - that game was good when I was there last. Guess I just got a good table (for 7 hours)

Although, I appreciate the heads up.

[EWillers]

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I'm at the Mirage every night and the 10-20 is a joke right now. It's not at all like the rocky 10-20 of yore. It's the new and improved uber fishy 10-20.

BTW, to the original poster, the 6-12 is the worst game in the room.



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I spent about 20 hours a week or so at the Mirage playing the 6/12 almost exclusively from February to May. Most nights the games were really good. Some nights the games were great. Some nights the games were not good.

Funny thing, when bad players happened to populate the table, the game was good. When good players happened to populate the table, the game was bad.

I spose what I deduce from these facts is that games are what they are. As far as B&M analysis of which games are typically "good" or "bad" (and this is a no brainer with on-line games--due to the easy availability of stats) there really isn't any secret. The invisible hand will do its job of making sure that over time, all the games will be about the same at any given time (if it doesn't then the skilled players aern't doing their job).

If you find yourself in a bad game (or what you feel is a less than optimal game) take a walk. Find the better game at that given point in time at that particular place in the universe. Don't worry so much about which casino has the "softest" games and do worry so much about how strongly the 9 other fellas at the table play.

[3rdCheckRaise]

About a 1.5 years ago on my first trip to Vegas i took the worst beating of my life in Mirage 10-20 playing there 6 nights in the row. Do not know if i sucked that bad back then or the game was that tough. On my last two trips ( a month ago and 3 month ago)i've sit down at 10-20 in Mirage while waiting for 20 or 40 game and on couple of nights never made it to 20 game, the game was just that good...Vegas games are supposed to be tougher then AC but 10-20 and 20-40 Mirage are a lot softer then same games in Taj...any idea why ?