Daily tourneys in Vegas

[proformance]

Heading to Vegas after some golf in Mesquite in late June. Will be there to check out the WSOP but want to play in smaller buy-in tourneys elsewhere. Played in Caeser's 11PM $60 tourney last year but if I remember right, the add-on ($10) went right to a dealer toke and not the prize pool.
So, what mid-level buy-ins ($100-$125) without an obsene juice exist for daily tourneys in Vegas? I do remember a thread sometime about daily tourneys but couldn't find it. If somebody has it handy, please post it. Thanks.

[SpeciesFlora]

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[proformance]

thanks species

[SpeciesFlora]

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[Toopskees]

You didn't mention the 12 noon Orleans tournament. $80 buy in, 3000 chips, 20 minute levels. Do you know anything about this one?

[Toopskees]

Sorry, should have been more specific. The THURSDAY 12 noon Orleans tournament.

[bav]

There's nothing wrong with the Orleans tourneys. But if I'm ready to play a tourney at noon, it's going to be at Caesars where I get 40 minute rounds and 4500 starting chips for $130. The thread you were linked to was just a list of the generally accepted "best of breed" of the daily tournaments where "best" tends to mean most play for the price without being totally reamed by the vigorish.

[Toopskees]

I have played (and won) the Caesars noon tournament, and I agree that the 40 minute levels are great. But the blind structure has an unusual quirk: level 2 is 50/100 and level 3 is 100/200/25. This means that the cost of playing a round goes from 150 to 525 in a single level.

[bav]

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I have played (and won) the Caesars noon tournament, and I agree that the 40 minute levels are great. But the blind structure has an unusual quirk: level 2 is 50/100 and level 3 is 100/200/25. This means that the cost of playing a round goes from 150 to 525 in a single level.

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Yes. It was a much nicer structure the first weeks it ran, but they got tired of the tourneys running >9 hours and clipped out several blind levels so we're left with a tourney that tends to run about 7 hours with 60ish people and blinds that more than double from 50/100 to 100/200/25 and several punishing blind increases later. I really would like to have back three more blind levels (we need 100/200/0, 300/600/75, and 1500/3000/300, and if you wanna add 150/300/25, I'm ok with that). Even so, it remains a better structure than any comparably-priced tourney.

Caesars offers T4500 chips and 40 minute rounds. Orleans is T3000 for your Thursday noon event with 20 minute rounds. After 120 minutes, Ceasars blinds go to 200/400/50 for 1050 per round or 23% of your original chip count. After 120 minutes Orleans is at 150/300/25 for 675 per 9-player round or 23% of your original chip count. But 120 minutes after that Caesars is 1000/2000/200 vs Orleans 1500/3000/400. So they start out pretty similar, but then Orleans blinds race ahead.

Like I said, I find nothing wrong with Orleans tourneys. They're fine. I just like Caesars better.

[PorkchopDJG]

Is the Venetian daily tourney structure better than Caesars or pretty much the same?