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Limit Poker Luxury on the Strip

Summary: Four days on the Strip playing limit poker in the best new card rooms... it's a tale of fish, sharks, and weird chip denominations.

Date: 05/02/06
By: evannorth

Las Vegas Trip Report

WYNN: Dropped into Vegas for four days just before the NAB conference. Stayed at the Wynn the whole time and was taken care of by their fantastic staff. They're a nice contrast to the snootier Bellagio crowd. Quite helpful at every turn. The dealers are very professional and made few mistakes. The comp system is the typical $1 per hour, but the room manager is very generous when awarding food comps. I got a $20 cafe comp and definitely hadn't logged 20 hours. The players in the 8-16 limit game were not the greatest, but hardly fish. It was a typical mid-limit game. There were plenty of fishier players in the 4-8 game at the Venetian. The best part: brown $2 chips and greenish $3 chips. The browns were great for an 8-16 game. (Still not as weird as the AC Tropicana's $2.50 chips for their 7.50-15 game.) One last note... superb cocktail service with top-shelf offerings and a killer strawberry daquiri. Food also available at the tables.

HOOTERS: Stopped by this brand new card room inside a casino that looks just like...well, your neighborhood Hooters. They've got 3 tables and had only one running on a Friday night. It was a 1-2 no limit and I didn't get a chance to sit, but it was full of young guys. Probably worth a look.

CAESARS PALACE: The most spacious card room I saw in town. They had tournaments running both times I was there. The cash game action was loose and fishy at the 4-8 level.

VENETIAN: A great disappointment. Maybe I showed up a little late at 3 a.m. on Thursday night, but this place had very little life in it. I heard from others who played there during the day who confirmed that the place is often empty. It's a huge, luxurious room, but they don't attract heavy action. I haven't heard of anything higher than 4-8 limit or 1-2 no limit breaking out very often. They're going to have to work a little harder to get players away from the great rooms elsewhere on the Strip.

BALLYS: It's true what they say about Bally's no limit. You can smell the fish from the craps tables. Perfect scenario played out when I got AA...raised preflop, then someone went all-in on me when the flop came Q-J-X. He'd flopped a pair of queens. Brilliant. Not a lot of deep stacks in the 1-2 NL game here but very splashy.

MIRAGE: I'd heard that the 6-12 game here is one of the toughest in town. As if to confirm this, I dropped $300 in an hour. I may have won one pot in the beginning, but everything else was a nightmare. I wasn't playing any differently; I think it had more to do with the cards. There were definitely some bad players in the mix who admitted to being "regular 3-6 players." It showed too, when they hit longshot draws to kill my top two pair. Oh well.

All in all, was impressed by some of the new rooms. It's a catch-22 because even though the waits are short everywhere, the games are too dispersed now. Some of these rooms are going to continue to be underutilized because of the increase in supply. But you'll consistently find big games at the old standbys.

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