Re: Mini Vegas trip report - pre-Super Bowl Saturday
The plane arrives in Vegas at about 5 p.m. without crashing, so my luck is improving already. I'm on the cheap this trip, so I take the $5 shuttle to Luxor. I want to try the $50 NL game that I've heard about here. I see no drunken Super Bowl tourists or crazy guys that push with 10-8o. It's playing about the same as any other 1-2 NL game. There are hands being pushed, but they would probably be pushed in any other game. I won a few hands in 1 1/2 hours for $36 and finally have a winning session in 2007!
I took the walkway over to the Excalibur. I've had good luck there in the past before they re-built the poker room. The 1-3 NL used to have a lot of wild and crazy play. The feel of the games now are completely different. This table is full of rocky nits. Seldom more than 3 to a flop. Hardly anyone here has even heard of the Super Bowl, much less are drunken tourists in town for it. Nevertheless, they aren't very good players, and in an hour I'm +$57.
Next: The legendary MGM Grand, widely heralded on 2+2 for loose play.
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