best downtown vegas tourneys?

[MrBrightside]

Hey, what tourneys would you consider the best. There thurs-sunday Oct. 6th-9th. Staying at the plaza.

[Big Business]

When I was down there Binion's had a great one. After rebuy and stuff it was like 100 buy in maybe, but the structure was great. The blind levels were 30 min. and blinds were at 25/25 and had antes later on instead of the usual doubling of the blinds.

Great tourney for the money. Don't know if they still have it or not, it was a few months ago.

[sternroolz]

Allvegaspoker.com

I believe that Plaza, Binions and Golden Nugget are the only three downtown to have tournaments.

Binions has 10am, 2pm, and 8pm tournaments.
Plaza has multiple tournaments daily. I played one and if I remember correctly it was 30 minute levels. With rebuys it came to like $100 or so. Only problem I had was there were several loose aggressive players and I was not catching any hands at all, with not enough chips to attempt much of a move.

[MrBrightside]

30 minute levels sounds not too bad. I saw somewhere that the juice on the binions was pretty bad, particularly because 2% of the prize pool is held back for a TOC for monthly 1st place finishers prize pool (which won't do me any good). GN's look a little high entry for me (they all seem to be rebuy), so I guess it will be the plaza. May try to enter one GN one just to play there and check it out.

I'm staying at the plaza anyway.

I'll post a wrap up here for anyone elese intersted.

[wayabvpar]

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Binions has 10am, 2pm, and 8pm tournaments.

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I was told they had 4 a day... I think the missing one is at like 1 am or something like that.

[lonn19]

What are the buy-ins for the Binions tourneys? Are they all rebuy tourneys?

[MrBrightside]

Here's what there web site shows:

7 Days a Week
No-Limit Texas Hold'em at 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

$60 Buy-in: Players will start with $1,000 in Tournament chips
One Time Bonus Buy of $10 = 50% more chips
$40 Optional Re-buy (1)
Registration starts at 12 p.m. Tournament starts at 2 p.m.
20 minute rounds
5% (up to $200) of prize money will be withheld for a drawing at 6 pm.
All participants that entered the tournament & playing in a live or tournament game are eligible for the drawing.
Monday - Thursday: No-Limit Texas Hold'em at 8 p.m.

$60 Buy-in: Players will start with $1,000 in Tournament chips
Registration starts at 6 p.m. Tournament starts at 8 p.m.
One Time Bonus Buy of $10 = 50% more chips
One Optional rebuy $40
5% (up to $100) of prize money will be withheld for a drawing at 11 pm.
All participants that entered the tournament & playing in a live or tournament game are eligible for the drawing.
Friday, Saturday & Sunday: No-Limit Texas Hold'em at 8 p.m.

$125 Buy-in: Players will start with $1,500 in Tournament chips
One Time Bonus Buy of $25 = $500 more chips
One Optional Re-Buy $50
Registration starts at 6 p.m. Tournament starts at 8 p.m.
25 minute rounds
5% (up to $100) of prize money will be withheld for a drawing at 11 pm.
All participants that entered the tournament & playing in a live or tournament game are eligible for the drawing.
Friday & Saturday: No-Limit Texas Hold'em at 2 a.m.

Registration starts at 12 am Friday & Saturday
No Limit Texas Hold’em
Buy in $60
One Time Bonus Buy of $10 = 50% more chips One Optional rebuy $40


according to this page: http://www.allvegaspoker.com/tournaments.php that's only 72% of buy in returned to the players (as prizes). I think that's absurd.