Wynn Tourneys

[willperkins]

I am going to Vegas this month and thinking about playing in the daily tourneys at Wynn that run Tuesday through Friday. I have two questions?

1. Has anyone else played these tourneys? I understand you get plenty of starting chips, the blinds are decent and the rounds are longer than most of the B&M tourneys in Vegas.

2. Where would be a good place to stay that is fairly close to the Wynn. I am not much on wasting a lot of money by staying there when I plan to spend little time in the room?

[Yo Adrians!]

I haven't played, but a friend and I plan on playing Friday, Jan. 13th while we're in Vegas. I can't help you on where to stay, but I have learned these these things:

- You start with 3000 chips (no rebuys or adds)
- Blinds start at 25-50
- Blind levels are 40 or 45 minutes each

So, it appears to be a fantastic structure. I've also heard the new Caesar's tourneys are very well-structured, too, FWIW.

Good luck friend.

[slickpoppa]

I stayed at Treasure Island during the World Series. It is the closest place to the Wynn that isn't the Wynn. It's a pretty good place and not very expensive.

[bav]

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I am going to Vegas this month and thinking about playing in the daily tourneys at Wynn that run Tuesday through Friday. I have two questions?

1. Has anyone else played these tourneys? I understand you get plenty of starting chips, the blinds are decent and the rounds are longer than most of the B&M tourneys in Vegas.

2. Where would be a good place to stay that is fairly close to the Wynn. I am not much on wasting a lot of money by staying there when I plan to spend little time in the room?

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New Frontier will be cheap. It's across the street and north. Venetian/TreasureIsland/Mirage won't be cheap. Casino Royale south of Venetian is probably cheap but you may not like the insects that sleep with you. Harrah's further south may be affordable. Imperial Palace just south of Harrah's should be very cheap. Stardust north of Frontier will be affordable.

Wynn daily tourneys start you with 3000 tourney chips, 45 minute levels, initial blinds/antes are 25/50/0, 50/100/0, 100/200/0, 100/200/25, 200/400/25, 300/600/50, 400/800/75, 600/1200/100, etc. Plan to be there from noon until at least 9pm (I've seen a couple times someone bought in, and 5 hours in figured out they weren't gonna be able to make their 7pm dinner reservations). And rumor has it a recent tourney there didn't end until 2am when they finally agreed to a three-way split.

Caesars is doing daily tourneys now with 40 minute levels and blinds that go up a bit faster than Wynn's but 4500 starting chips (after the single allowed addon).

If it were me, I'd probably stay at Harrah's or IP, depending on room rate unless you get a bangup deal at Mirage or TI, and split time between Wynn/Mirage/Harrah's/Caesars/Bally's/Bellagio, all of which are easily walkable from Harrah's and IP.

[SixMile]

Anybody know if their results are posted somewhere? I would like to see how much action is there.

[bitznbytz]

I played in one of the $330 buy-in's last Tuesday. I won my way through a satellite (10 players, $80 buy-in, top 2 get a seat; I've played my share of S&Gs so this was familiar territory). The tournament was very good, 45m levels, T3000 starting chips. The field was fairly large with all the holiday traffic (~120 players, IIRC), first place paid approx. 11K.

I fared poorly due to my head being up my ass, but it was a well run, well structured game, nonetheless. Room is quite nice and treated me well too. I'll certainly take another shot next time I get to play there.

[Bulbarainey]

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2. Where would be a good place to stay that is fairly close to the Wynn. I am not much on wasting a lot of money by staying there when I plan to spend little time in the room?

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The Stardust hands down! Very close to Wynn, its right next to the Frontier, $33/night with the poker rate, which is 3 or 4 hours required play (they are not strict on it, I played it though), and they have morning tournies tue/wed/thurs. The only bad part is they only have $3/6 limit, so you might have to spend your few hours there. Staff is nice, rooms are clean. I was there two weeks ago and the "villa" rooms were closed that they normally give you, they probably still are... I got upgraded to a 30th floor strip view room, still paying $33 with tax. If the villas are still closed, youll probably get the same kind of room, since they are rarely full. In addition, after 3 hours of play youre playing anyway for the room rate, you get a $5 food comp thats good anywhere.