Vegas Trip

[TheTruth527 0]

Below is a recap of my recent 4 day trip to vegas with random observations, a very cool encounter, and a couple of interesting hands....I played 1/2 and 1/3 nl at caesars and excalibur respectively. I was very impressed with the Caesars room. Being from Boston and playing live primarily at Foxwoods it was a welcome relief to see a max buy in of $500 with a 10% rake up to $4 as opposed to a max $100 buy in with a $5 charge every half hour at foxwoods (for 1/2). It allowed for a lot of play and one hand didnt make you go broke. It was Sunday afternoon and I had no wait at all, the staff seated me immediately, a chip runner got me 2 stacks and I was off. I only played for about 4 hours and didnt see many quality hands except for aces on my BB twice and got no action. Stack whittled down with raises preflop and continuation bets and could never get anything going, finally went bust when i flopped a straight with 4 8 off suit (was in BB and checked to me) and ran into 8 9. I made a small bet $15 and got two callers, guy with the 8 9 raised to $60 and I went all in about $80 more, two others folded and I lost....In hind sight I probably could have folded but its a tough lay down when your card dead and flop a straight with 4 8, lol. Overall i was impressed with the room....The only other place I played was at the excalibur for about an hour before i went up to my room. Its basically a railed off portion of the casino with really old wooden tables, it was shitty but still poker or so i thought. They happend to have a 1/3 nl game going on there and i won most of my $80 profit when i raised to $15 in the small blind with JJ and got one caller, flop came 10 9 4 rainbow, i bet out $40 guy went all in for about $60 more, I called and he flipped over 10 3 off suit, thats not a typo. i played once more at caesars and won $75, so overall after about 7 hours of play i was down about $45.....Some observations while in Sin City:The Venetian poker room is phenomenal...The Bellagio room was much smaller than I anticipated, has anyone watched the big game there? i would think they have to limit those who watch because the area is just not big enough to accomodate a lot of spectators...I saw a couple of pros playing at what looked like $10-20 and $25-50 tables (dont hold me to those though) Gabe Thaler, Lee Watkinson, Chris Bigler...there was a royal flush and quads on back to back hands at my table at caesars, to my surprise there was no prize for hitting the royal (at least at foxwoods you get cheesy yet very cool Poker Club jacket)...Hand of the Weekend:At the excalibur, 1/3 nl...very tight player to my right raised $15 preflop every folded to the player on his immediate right who called...flop came 8 5 10 rainbow, right player raised to $45, other player insta called, turn comes an A, the caller checked, tight player raised $125, other player goes all in for about $55 more, both flip.......surprise surprise tight player flips over pocket aces for trips on the turn, other player turns over 3 4 of spades!!!!! for no flush draw and gut shot straight.....the river 2!!!!!! guy with aces literally fell out of his chair, everyone was in shock and the guy who hit the straight says, "thats poker"...sickest thing ive ever seen....to add insult to injury the dealer says when aces get beaten in a pot over $40 you get to spin a wheel to win a prize, i think the highest money on the wheel was $60 or something, it was sickCool Encounter:Flying back to Boston last night and Mark Seif was on my flight. He was with his wife and newborn. I went up to talk to him at baggage claim and he was a really cool guy. He was wearing a WSOP bracelt on each wrist and showed them to me, they were so awesome. He was meeting up with Bernard Lee and then going down to foxwoods for the world poker finals.Sorry about the length and thank you to everyone who kept reading after the sentence, "I played 1/3 at the excalibur"...

[gatortom64 1]

I always play at the Excalibur in Vegas. I will be there in 27 days. Staying at the Sahara this time. Anyone know about the north end of the strip? Haven't stayed up there since Circus Circus in 89.

[petro1010 0]

sounds like a good time, but i doubt those pros were playin 10/20...maybe 25/50. Ima be there in bout 2 weeks for bout 10 hrs, lol. Hopefully ill get in a good session tho.

[blackntan06 0]

it sounds like you had a good time. ill be going to vegas a week from this monday.

[Mikey Ravioli 0]

I always play at the Excalibur. Tons of fish and I dig the wheel.The Luxor isn't bad for loose games either.They do an 11am NLHE class every morning so at noon the low limit tables are ripe.

[TheTruth527 0]

I didnt play for long at the excalibur, i was turned off by the tables....game was easy but the tables themselves were horrible, the wood was all marked up and the felt was torn in places and so worn that the cards flipped themselves over a lot of times other than that players and dealers were friendly and staff was responsive.

[GambleToWin 0]

nice thread

[coesillian 0]

Good post, you're making me itch...

[KappaKid83 0]

North End of the Strip is OLD Las Vegas. Not much going on down there IMO, but I am 23 and like a lot of stuff in close proximity that isnt out dated and lame. The only thing about the Sahara is the nightly tourney with rebuy. Full of donks and not bad prize pool. Only drawbacks is it is at the Sahara and the structure is putrid after the 1st hour.Jeff