playing at bally's vegas

[grbs1605 0]

I'll be in Vegas over the weekend and figured I'd hit up Bally's cause I heard it's pretty loose over there and is the closest cardroom to my hotel, barbary coast. I'll be playing 2/4 and move up if my internet game translates well. I havn't played live since March.Can anyone confirm if this is a easy room to beat? I thought Luxor was pretty easy.

[knght311 0]

I'll be in Vegas over the weekend and figured I'd hit up Bally's cause I heard it's pretty loose over there and is the closest cardroom to my hotel, barbary coast.   I'll be playing 2/4 and move up if my internet game translates well.  I havn't played live since March.Can anyone confirm if this is a good room to beat?

Can't confirm that, but I did hit up harrah's new room, made $400 in 30 minutes in 3-6 limit, I admit I had a good run of cards, but they were not the nuts, people are just horrible.

[troyomac 0]

I'll be in Vegas over the weekend and figured I'd hit up Bally's cause I heard it's pretty loose over there and is the closest cardroom to my hotel, barbary coast.   I'll be playing 2/4 and move up if my internet game translates well.  I havn't played live since March.Can anyone confirm if this is a easy room to beat? I thought Luxor was pretty easy.

information on bally's in general would be great! i'm staying there in december, can't wait!!

[Shizzmoney 0]

I was pleased with my first Vegas experience when I stayed at Bally's. The location to the Barbary Coast is nice (especially since Barbary has a very cheap and delish "I just came from the club, I'm drunk, and want some food" cafe on it's first floor. Bally's also had some pretty cheap rooms that were very nice, and a decent view (I had that Effel Tower restaurant right outside my window.) There is also a kick ass italian restaurant right across the street and to the left, it's next to the Falmingo casino.I forget the name but they have free house wine, quality food, and some guy who plays an accordion for you.Bally's also had probably the one of the best buffet's in Vegas, in my opinion. I went to 3 of them at various casinos, and it was the best one I had. Really good quality all you can eat food that's cooked right there to order for like $12.50.That said, I couldn't be able to tell you about the poker room. I just started playing poker about 5 mths ago, and my gambling experience in Vegas was limited to 5 -25 dollar blackjack at the Bellagio and the sports book at the New York/New York. But all in all, highly recommended.

[tlane 0]

if you're staying at the BC, the flamingo poker room might be up your ally for those limits.

[chipsnski 0]

Bally's was one of the 8 places I hit back in September.check out allvegaspoker.comClick on trip reports or the room reviews, or BOTH.If you scroll through old reports submitted, mine is "8 sessions in 8 card rooms in Vegas" I give a page write up on Ballys.

[Socrates 0]

Bally's is soft, but the wait staff is not even close to "good" - go somewhere like MGM, so many college kids giving away their money it will make your head spin and yuor wallet fat. Just jump the tram at Bally's and in 5 miuntes being paying next mont's mortgage.Honestly, I recommend the 2/5NL game as well. Same kids, just giving away more money, but the 1/2 tables are excellent too.

[evesixer 0]

I played at the MGM, and i enjoyed it a lot. nice room, friendly dealers, etc,one thing that I need to say is DO NOT EAT THE BUFFET AT THE FLAMINGO. we ate there, and it was TERRIBLE!! we walked in and they sat us down by 6-7 tables that hadnt been cleared and remained dirty till the time we left. not just one dish per person that had been sitting there, but stacks in front of each spot. it was gross. the food sucked (is it really possible to censored up mashed potatoes)?? worst buffet i have ever had, wich i would have eaten at ponderosa instead. sorry, i see the word flamingo and i get all riled up...

[richgambler 0]

Bally's is soft, but the wait staff is not even close to "good"

So true....place is nice, good rooms/cheap......poker room is rather small, but extremely soft, and the wait staff blows

[chipsnski 0]

Bally's is soft, but the wait staff is not even close to "good"

So true....place is nice, good rooms/cheap......poker room is rather small, but extremely soft, and the wait staff blows

I am not sure about what you are looking for in a waitstaff but at Ballys, the Bar is literally 15' from the tables. Granted, Grandma in her terrible outfit was bringing drinks and REDBULL as fast as she could push her walker 15'. I don't give a fok what she looks like, i just want the drinks free and fast.Only way it could have been better if the toursists had more money than they did.Very few wannabes at this place, lots of tourists.MGM, tourists AND wannabes. Just a matter of tastes.

[troyomac 0]

Bally's was one of the 8 places I hit back in September.check out allvegaspoker.comClick on trip reports or the room reviews, or BOTH.If you scroll through old reports submitted, mine is "8 sessions in 8 card rooms in Vegas" I give a page write up on Ballys.

dude i hate to be a jerk after how nice you were in responding to this thread and being helpful, but i just can't resist posting a quote from your story at bally's. even though you won the hand, you played it awfully." After about 30 minutes I limp in with 6-6 expecting a preflop raise. 6 people total see the flop and I am UTG. Flop comes out K-6-7. I know this hit someone, somewhere and I am going to checkraise depending on how many people bet. Everyone checks. I groan inside. The turn is a 5. Boom this made someone a straight and there are two hearts on the board as well. Let?s see who has the straight. I bet out $15, 1 guy calls, another guy makes it $45. At this point I think he has a straight or two pair with 5-6 or so. I raise it to $90. 1 guy calls and the other guy re-raises me to $150 total. Yup there is the straight. The reason I didn?t just call the 45 on the turn is I was afraid if I did boat up, they wouldn?t be able to call my bets or pay me on the river so I played it trying to get paid before I hit my outs. I call the $150, guy 1 goes all in for $105 total. Guy 2 has about $35 left in front of him. As the dealer burns I say ?sir I am going to check it in the dark!? A 7 hits the board on the river giving me a boat. I say ?sir I am still checking it in the dark.? He immediately bets his $35 into me. I said ?well I call and I have a boat? he turns over 8-9 for the straight"

[goose 0]

I played at quite a few of the card rooms in vegas this summer, and I didn't like Bally's too much. Fairly decent field the times I played there.Definately go to MGM though, I made a killing at their $1/$2 NL

[chipsnski 0]

I know you have good intentions but typically if you want to give constructive criticism (like I am doing to you now), you might want to work on your wording. A better approach would be, "do you think you played this hand correctly? I might have a different ideas" OR "Do you want to hear about possible flaws in your play?" This opens the door for ideas and criticism instead of someone putting up the immediate defensive barriers and the other person being a jerk.Are you open minded to hearing my thinking at the time and what mistakes i KNEW I made during the hand and how I knew I had commited myself etc? Or are you just going to think your way is the only way?

[troyomac 0]

Are you open minded to hearing my thinking at the time and what mistakes i KNEW I made during the hand and how I knew I had commited myself etc? Or are you just going to think your way is the only way?

there are obviously different ways you could play the hand, and i am open to suggestions, obviously "my way" isn't the only way. i just thought it was sooo terribly played, and your reasoning was sooo terrible that it had to be mentioned. (for a laugh, and also for you to learn from your mistakes so you can improve your game).

After about 30 minutes I limp in with 6-6 expecting a preflop raise.

limping here is correct, it sounds as though you think 6-6 is solid gold, and you wanted someone to raise. why not limp cheap and see a flop? ( i realize this is what you did, but sounds like you wanted more money in the pot!)

Flop comes out K-6-7. I know this hit someone, somewhere and I am going to checkraise depending on how many people bet

why not throw out a bet here? if it has hit someone (which it probably did), they are either going to call or raise (this will make the pot bigger, so they will have to call a bigger bet on the turn and river...more money for you!) in this case the turn was a scare card for you, yet you decided to make it disgustingly expensive to see if you were beat...which you were. now you need the board to pair for a big pot, and you could have made it cheap.

As the dealer burns I say ?sir I am going to check it in the dark!?

this is about the dumbest move in poker. the guy still had 35 bucks, he's calling your bet for sure, you're lucky he bet it, or else that dumb move would have cost you 35 bucks. anyway i'm done babbling sorry to come off sounding like a jerk, i'm really not trying to...just a very very poorly playing hand IMO, and i really appreciated your responding to the thread to find out more about bally's.

[chipsnski 0]

Excellent points.Yes, you are totally correct about in an ideal situation and normally I would have played it close to what you describe BUT there were some intagibles that I was observing while sitting at the table.At this table, the largest pot won for a while was like $12. Any bet, everyone folds. Breath at the cards, they fold. Make any moves, they fold. There was no "getting all the money in with the best hand at this table." This was the norm for an hour, then it was like all hell broke loose and they couldnt give their money away quick enough sometimes.YES normally i would have called the raise on the turn to the made hand and gone for cheaply as possibly to the river but in this case (this is gonna sound crazy and inverted) but I wanted as most money in the pot before I hit my hand as once and of course IF I hit my 10 outs, I have guaranteed money to be paid, if not, they are gonna run scared like they did the whole time we had been playing and not call my re-raised bets on the river.Yes it was gambling and not how I normally play but I knew if I was going to take home some bigger money, I was gonna have to think outside the box and take some larger risks that I normally and ideally don't do.Does that make any sense?As far as the checking in the dark on the river, I KNOW he has a straight. I am trying to play the sympathy card on him if I DON"T hit my 10 outs, to save myself some money. I don't care about getting his last $35 as I haven't made my hand yet, I would rather save the money.It just shows his level of thinking, I re-raised him a ton on the turn etc, what could i possibly have?? then the board pairs and HE BETS INTO ME?

[troyomac 0]

YES normally i would have called the raise on the turn to the made hand and gone for cheaply as possibly to the river but in this case (this is gonna sound crazy and inverted) but I wanted as most money in the pot before I hit my hand as once and of course IF I hit my 10 outs, I have guaranteed money to be paid, if not, they are gonna run scared like they did the whole time we had been playing and not call my re-raised bets on the river

see that is just brutal, the key to NL is to see your draws as cheap as you can, then try to bet accordingly to pot/players AFTER you've made your hand. the way you're saying this, is that you wanted more money in the pot while you were losing...and then after you hit one of your 10 outs, you were only going to get another 35 bucks!

[chipsnski 0]

YES normally i would have called the raise on the turn to the made hand and gone for cheaply as possibly to the river but in this case (this is gonna sound crazy and inverted) but I wanted as most money in the pot before I hit my hand as once and of course IF I hit my 10 outs, I have guaranteed money to be paid, if not, they are gonna run scared like they did the whole time we had been playing and not call my re-raised bets on the river

see that is just brutal, the key to NL is to see your draws as cheap as you can, then try to bet accordingly to pot/players AFTER you've made your hand. the way you're saying this, is that you wanted more money in the pot while you were losing...and then after you hit one of your 10 outs, you were only going to get another 35 bucks!

I know!! How foked up was that!!!??? No where else in my trip report do I resort to inverted tactics to try and be profitable. Just one of those situations.

[troyomac 0]

I know!! How foked up was that!!!??? No where else in my trip report do I resort to inverted tactics to try and be profitable. Just one of those situations.

that was the only part i read, sorry!