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Trip Report Planet Hollywood - Great low buy-in tournaments Date: 04/30/07 Player: LocalPlayer For Rooms: Aladdin,Planet Hollywood, Summary: Love the Planet Hollywood's new room and their low buy-in tournaments Content: I've posted before regarding a number of poker rooms and a separate trip report for the Aviation Club in Paris, France. I live in Vegas and recently visited the new Planet Hollywood (formerly Alladin) room. Wow...what an improvement. While the room still needs some minor upgrades (mostly plasma tv's), it is already spectacular, secluded enough to be quiet but not so secluded that you feel like you're playing in a vault (see Caesars' Palace). Also, the dealers were very competent and very friendly as was the management. The primary reason for this post is to rave about the tournaments. If you want to a low buy-in ($50 to $150) tournament with a looooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg structure, Caesars' morning/early afternoon tournament is for you. However, if you don't have 7 to 8 hours to win a tournament, but don't want an absolute all-in fest after the first hour as is the norm with most low buy-in tournaments, then the $60 tournaments at Planet Hollywood are for you. I used to advocate the Sahara tournaments, but the Planet Hollywood has a similar structure, a nicer environment and, for my taste, a better location on the Strip. The $4,000 starting stack and good structure (tournament should be over in 3 to 3.5 hours) allows for some play but, as I said, you won't be there all day. I'm not going to profess that it doesn't become an all-in fest around the $1,000-$2,000 level, but you should get some play and, if you keep an average stack, even some opportunity for post-flop action after those levels. As for my experience, the tourney I played had 44 runners with 6 places getting paid (1st was around 650 with 2nd at 450 and 6th around 125). I was crippled early when my AK ran into 55 after the flop on a board of KX5. That left me with around 1,200 chips at 300-600 blinds about an hour and a half into the tourney with 20 left. Fortunately, I picked up AJ on the next hand and doubled up and 33 on the hand after that to win a race and double up to around 5,000 when we broke down to 2 tables with an average stack of around 9,000. My AK held up against AJ on an AXX board all-in post-flop and my QQ held up against TT all-in pre-flop and suddenly I was at the final table with around 20K (the average) and 2,000-4,000 blinds. The final table had 4 real short stacks, 4 huge stacks and 2(including me) average stacks. The shorts busted putting me 5th out of 6 as the money bubble burst and my TT lost an all-in pre-flop race to a big stack's AK to bust me in 6th just inside the money. In the end, some well-timed aggression, a little rush of good cards, and winning one race put me in the money. My cards weren't great (AK twice, AQ once, QQ, TT, 33 and 66 (which I correctly folded pre-flop to multiple big raisers) were the only memorable ones in three hours), but I played well. Only other memorable hand was the first one of the tourney when I laid down 6-3 spades against a woman who bet $2,000 into a $400 pot on the first hand of tourney when the third spade fell on the river. There was no full-house possibility, but I didn't want to get crippled to what I assumed was a bigger flush with no read on her play. Final remarks: great room and the best low-level, fairly structured tourney in Vegas right now. |
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