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Trip Report A Local's No-Limit Experience (long) Date: 02/27/06 Player: LocalPlayer For Rooms: Aladdin,MGM Grand,Mirage,Monte Carlo,Palms,Paris,Sahara, Summary: Review of the no-limit cash games at various casinos and the daily tournament at Sahara. Content: I've lived in Summerlin, a Vegas suburb about 20 minutes west of the Strip, for 5 years now and, through some business dealings, have become friends with some of the big players in their upper-20's/lower-30's who live in town. Before meeting these guys, I didn't play poker, but picked it up about a year and a half ago. After losing about $200 to learn the game on-line, I've been winning between $200 and $500 per week playing low-limit one-table sit'n'go's, heads up sit'n'go's and between $0.50/$1 and $2/$4 no-limit on-line for about 10 hours per week for the past six months. About six months ago, I started playing the $1-3 spread limit game once a month at the Excalibur. This is a good soft game with a lot of variance and a lot of chasing, but if you play tight-aggressive, you can generally win money. About three months ago, I started playing in the low-limit tourneys (mostly because I don't have all day for the high-limit tourneys at Wynn, Caesars and Bellagio), and have found the Sahara's 11 a.m., 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. tourneys to be the absolute best of the low-limit variety. There is generally a nice mix of players there, the room, despite being old and a little nasty, is generally in good condition, the management knows what they are doing, the dealers are good and control the game well, they have a viewable plasma on the wall that displays the tournament clock and other information (big plus here), and, despite the fact that this ultimately becomes an all-in fest like all other low-limit tourneys, the chip-count and levels allow more room for play than other tourneys. If you're in town and want to play a tourney, this one runs three times per day so check it out. I also started sitting at the $1/2 or $1/3 no-limit tables in the various live poker rooms on the Strip and let me tell you, if one could clone oneself and multi-table these tables for 8 hours a day like you can on-line, you could become very rich. The play at most of these rooms is loose-passive (or drunk), so if you can keep a tight-aggressive style, turning a $50 or more profit per hour should not be difficult in the long-run. In no-limit on-line cash games, a 3BB raise gets a lot of respect. Not in live B&M games. 5BB won't even push the chasers most of the chasers out and I frequently see an all-in bet by a made hand pick up a call from a player chasing an open-ended flush or straight. That's right...WITH ONE CARD LEFT to come. The absolute best part, however, is playing any night of the week after 8:00 p.m., but particularly Friday or Saturday night, with all of the drunks. They are absolutely terrible. For instance, this past Saturday I sat at the $1/$2 NL table at MGM from 9:00 p.m. to midnight. I bought in for $200. The players were a 5-6 loose-chasers, 1-2 absolute novices, and 1-2 players who knew what they were doing and played a relatively tight-aggressive style. Then it happened: around 10:00 two drunk buddies sat down looking to play their final two hours to get the poker room rate and save $200 for the entire weekend. They started out going all-in frequently and, after getting folds, showing hand like 7-2 (suited...so it's OK), and 9-5 on a board of A-2-4-5. You should know it's a bad sign when everyone at the table who doesn't have the max reaches into their wallet to get to the max when you sit down. I was down to $180 after some bad hands and bad flops but the poker gods were smiling and I picked up K-K in the small blind when Drunk Buddy #1 picked up 3-3 from early position and went all-in. When the flop came A-K-4, it was over. Over the next 2 hours, the drunks and loose players continued to filter in and/or rebuy (by the way, the guys trying to save $200 by getting the poker room rate spun off $800 in chips in the two hours it took them to qualify for the rate - next time they should just play good poker and upgrade to Bellagio or Wynn). Anyhow, I walked out after 3 hours with $690 for a $490 profit. The MGM is great for no-limit because the noise/action around the room loosens up the players considerably and draws a younger crowd who love the edited "all-in fest" WPT broadcasts action. Definitely a great place to go if you can bring your patience. Other good rooms for low-blind, no-limit action are Aladdin, Paris, Luxor, Paris, Mandalay, Monte Carlo and Harrah's, though no place is really tough except Mirage (including Bellagio). Alright, to wrap it up...if you're used to playing no-limit on-line, be prepared for looser calls, higher raises, more all-in's and more chasing. If you can play tight-aggressive poker and utilize position and pot odds while still keeping the fish around, you'll make a lot of money in the long-term (though I can't make any promises for any given weekend). Good luck and happy fishing. |
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