Are you looking for 5/10 Limit Holdem in Vegas?

Photoc · #1 11-13-2005, 02:14 AM

The Aladdin poker room is now under new management. Nick Gullo is now heading up Poker operations at the Aladdin. Nick brings 40+ years of casino, marketing, and management experience with him to the table. He was previously the dayshift poker room manager at the Aladdin. Congratulations to him on the promotion.

They are now running 5/10 Limit Holdem with and without kills as a regular game. I heard the past week or so as many as 3 tables were running at a time.

The best part: The rake is only 5% to $4 max vs the regular 10% rake that all the other casinos have.

This is the only house to spread 5/10 that I am aware of. I know others will spread it once in a great while, but this is now going to be a regular game as long as there are players willing to play.

Also, I heard they are adding 2am tourneys for those night owls looking for some gambling late at night.

AllVegasPoker.com · #2 11-13-2005, 02:20 AM

Excellent news! $5/10 is one popular limit Vegas has been missing, and I'm happy to see it's here. I get a steady stream of inquiries about this limit. I hope Aladdin can keep this game going consistently.

Photoc · #3 11-13-2005, 02:22 AM

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That is up to the players. If the players want to play, there will be games available. If no one wants to play when the games are open, there isn't much you can do. I'm sure it will survive though. It's a higher limit, but not too high for normal gambling tourists to play.

Don Olney · #4 11-13-2005, 09:33 PM

lets see here----
3/6(new players heading into the game)
5/10 10/20 15/30 20/40 30/60 40/80

I may be slow and not worth much but hey I FOUND SOMETHING HERE-- can anyone else see what I see-------

Photoc · #5 11-14-2005, 12:11 AM

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can anyone else see what I see------

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Well, lets see...you count goot from left to right. How's that? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Luv2DriveTT · #6 11-13-2005, 02:22 AM

Horrible choice for a limit. There is a reason why 5/10 isn't spread commonly in Vegas or LA... no action. Unless your room is trying something origional (such as using $2.50 chips) the game will most likely be a dud.

TT [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

AllVegasPoker.com · #7 11-13-2005, 02:28 AM

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Horrible choice for a limit. There is a reason why 5/10 isn't spread commonly in Vegas or LA... no action.

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You're probably right TT; I'm sure there is a reason the game isn't spready anywhere else in Vegas. But, I do know that the game is spread successfully in card rooms outside of Vegas. As such, there is a demand from those players who play this limit at their local B&M and want to play it in Vegas (regardless of whether we think there is action).

There may be enough demand for at least one poker room to offer this game regularly. People will play it, especially if there is no $4/8 available.

Photoc · #8 11-13-2005, 02:33 AM

Well 3/6 is the normal low limit game spread there. Trying to spread 3/6 and 4/8 side by side does not work. It's been tried and tried. 3/6 and 5/10 on the other hand has not been tried very recently to my knowledge.

TT speaks of the 5/10 being tight with no action. Have you seen the state of the 1/2 NL games in this town lately? Any given day of the week you may and probably will have $15 average pots with half the players all waiting for aces and kings before they'll play. 2/5 NL is drying up slowly but surely. Most of the rooms that ran 3 or 4 at a time can barely get 1 or 2 off the ground now.

Players are slowly reverting back to limit. Those are the ones who played limit first and tried NL. The new players just trying NL before ever playing limit is a completely different story. Most of those players see NL as just another gambling/casino game like BJ or craps.

poker327 · #9 11-13-2005, 03:01 AM

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Players are slowly reverting back to limit. Those are the ones who played limit first and tried NL. The new players just trying NL before ever playing limit is a completely different story. Most of those players see NL as just another gambling/casino game like BJ or craps.

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I see the opposite happening in Atlantic City. 1/2 NL is one of the most popular games in town. The players seem to be the new types though that you talk of (many have little grasp of NL strategy). Meanwhile it seems the 10/20 limit games at Borgata are not as loose as they used to be, as I think the loose players are picking NL.

Rick Nebiolo · #10 11-13-2005, 01:59 PM

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TT speaks of the 5/10 being tight with no action. Have you seen the state of the 1/2 NL games in this town lately? Any given day of the week you may and probably will have $15 average pots with half the players all waiting for aces and kings before they'll play. 2/5 NL is drying up slowly but surely. Most of the rooms that ran 3 or 4 at a time can barely get 1 or 2 off the ground now.

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SoCal is still growing but the somewhat larger fixed buy games ($200 to $500 range) are getting tighter and I expect this trend to continue. In a year or two I expect to revert to 20/40 (and hopefully 40/80) limit holdem as my main games. Ridiculously loose NL play will get increasingly punished as you won't often see five loose players pushing chips back and forth as we have in the past.

Blood in the water always attracts sharks, and the low limit low limit players are starting to bleed too fast.

But the real little games still look pretty loose. Hawaiian Gardens had thirteen $20 fixed buy (1-1 blinds) and seven $40 fixed buy (1-2 blinds) in the bar area and it's mostly kids under 25. And this is with about three to five buy-ins per hour coming off the table in drops! The floorperson said the kids actually do what they are told when she has to make a decision. I guess the new generation listens to adults [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

~ Rick