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Trip Report St. Patrick's Weekend Poker Madness! Date: 03/20/06 Player: crankypage For Rooms: Aladdin,Flamingo,Imperial Palace,O'Shea's, Summary: From fun at the Flamingo and Aladdin to the grossness of the Imperial Palace and O'Sheas, 50 hours in Vegas in 8 thrilling paragraphs. Content: Just got back from Vegas, spent March 17-19 there. Yes, there's nothing like Vegas on Arbor Day. Ah, the trees. There was some Irish holiday too. Stayed at the Flamingo and played there quite a bit. Professional room, pleasant enough, non-smoking. As is becoming the norm, it's near the strip doors and open to the casino, so it's a little noisy. The list is maintained on paper but I never waited more than five minutes, and that was because they were opening a new table. They have several flat screens which were on NCAA games all weekend. Drink service was good even when the place was very busy and a $2 tip for the first drink got you remembered. Mix of fish and tight-playing tourists. Few, if any, locals. The dealers were mostly older, experienced, and personable, although there were a few quiet ones, but I didn't experience any problems with their competence. I had read here that this room gave $1/hr comps but that wasn't the case. I saw several players pull out players cards only to be told the room doesn't track play. One dealer said it was coming soon, but who knows? Overall I only won about $90 total in three sessions of $2-4 limit ring games. They have no bad beat jackpot but they do have a daily high hand payout, and very early Sunday morning I hit 4 aces and a few hours later (their day is 6am-6am) I collected $200. Nice. You will, in my experience, get called to the river with anything. I was once re-raised twice at the river when I held the nut full house, and the guy had two pair. Wasn't even afraid of trips, let alone a boat. But the fish giveth, and the fish taketh away, and there were nasty bad beats galore. One story about this room. (Don't worry, not a bad beat story.) I was at a table with most of a wedding party - bride, groom, parents, sister of bride. ("How'd you spend your wedding night?" "Playing $2-4 at the Flamingo.") Well, the bride and groom were sitting next to each other and started pretty much showing each other their cards, especially if one was out of the hand. It was a friendly table, no big deal. But the dealer, at great risk to his tips, pretty quickly told them to cut it out in a polite but firm tone. While none of the rest of us would likely have said anything, it was great to have the dealer right on top of it, and he did it in a nice enough way that everybody kept playing and the table remained friendly. I had a good time there. The Imperial Palace, where I played once, was another story. Louder, smokier, somehow grosser. The fish level didn't seem to be any different than the Flamingo (if anything, a few more locals) but the drinks were lousy and slow (despite the fact that the bar's in the room) and because most of the casino's front doors were broken there was a loud flow of people going right by the rail at all times. I asked the dealer, and they're giving $2/hr comps now, not $3, but I didn't bother signing up. I played there a little over an hour, found myself exactly even, and decided I didn't want to play there anymore. I cashed out. I watched the infamous SNG game at O'Sheas, right next to the Strip at the south end of the casino. (They only had one table going, the other was covered despite huge crowds.) There were bands playing in the alley outside all weekend, which made the area deafening. Slowest dealer I've ever seen in my life, the tourneys must have taken hours. Crowded, cold, loud, jostling for space, there was no way I wanted to play there. So the third place I played was the Aladdin, because I was wandering through and discovered that on Sundays they're running continuous low-roller SNG tourneys. $60 total buy-in, $350 to first place and $150 to second place. The room is right by the strip door (everybody's putting them up front now) in front of PF Chang. Actually, I liked the location. The restrooms are right there, and the drinks come quick. No TVs in the room, though, if that matters to you. Anyway, it only took about 5-10 minutes of waiting to assemble ten people and get the game going. The dealer was a unique combination of very young, entertaining, and supremely competent. Drink service was good, one definitely could have a few rounds during the tourney if one was so inclined. (Glad I had dollar bills, when the realization hits that you can't tip T-chips.) The competition, all tourists, was horrible, much worse than any I saw at a regular ring game the whole time I was there. I knew what each of them had pretty much every time. There were two other people ("other," he wrote arrogantly) at the table who knew what they were doing and seven guppies. Consequently, I won the first live SNG (or tourney of any kind) I ever entered. Paid in Aladdin chips, I tipped the dealer a green chip and he was ecstatic, and the room boss saw this and asked if there was anything he could do for me. (Yeah, work for a living like the dealers do. Sorry, my bias.) My flight home was imminent or I would have stayed to play another SNG. I made good money on poker this trip, especially considering the low limits I was playing. I made sure to give some back at Let It Ride tables (I know better, yet still I do it) and VP machines (don't play at Harrah's/Caesars casinos, their pay tables really suck. 7-5? C'mon. I saw better payout tables at the Wynn of all places, but MGM/Mirage casinos were at least offering 8-5 too.) Despite this, I came out nicely ahead overall (covered the cost of the room and short flight.) Hope this was interesting and helpful. Feedback/corrections welcome: crankypage@hotmail.com. |
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