Vegas During June WPT Event

bobpoker · #1 05-23-2006, 03:03 PM

Long time lurker, first time poster. I will be making my first trip to Vegas June 6-9 and will be staying at Mandalay Bay. I have have some live experience at several local casinos. I know what to expect in Vegas based on my searches of this site and other popular sites. I am not looking for info on what to expect on my first trip to Vegas cardrooms. My questions are: How differently will the games play due to the fact that the WPT event will be going on during this time? Will the Mandalay Bay cardroom be overcrowded? Will the competion be much better than average throughout town? Did I make a mistake booking during this time? This is a vacation for my wife and I not just a poker trip, although I hope to play 4-6 hours a day while I am there. I will be playing low limits during my stay (1-2NL to 4/8 limit). I am hoping to checkout Mandalay Bay, Bellagio, MGM, Venetian, Caeser's while I am in town. Any thoughts on how the games will play differently than normal will be appreciated. I have really enjoyed the site and have learned alot here so far. Thanks

Vuron00 · #2 05-23-2006, 03:22 PM

There won't be much difference if you're playing low limits. Late at night you may get the occassional higher limit player sit down at your table to play some drunken poker, though.

Have fun on your vacation.

drewjustdrew · #3 05-23-2006, 04:56 PM

Usually at big events, they put the tourney in the convention center. They may close down the regular cardroom. I think it varies from hotel to hotel.

Also, in mid-limits I have found the competition in cash games to be much worse during big events due to all the wannabes and eliminated tourney players on tilt. You should do well if you are a breakeven player typically. For low-limit, I would guess not much difference in competition.

Good luck!

Photoc · #4 05-23-2006, 04:59 PM

Low limits = no change. Low limit players do not plunk down 2500 or better for a WPT tournament.

Second, no one knows what this is going to be like becuase this is the first Mandalay Bay WPT event. Not that MB has much of a cardroom to begin with.

BaldEaglePkr · #5 05-24-2006, 02:01 AM

I am dealing at the Mandalay WPT event.. As of right now the word I have is that they have 41 tables setup right at the normal poker room. This is where most of the events will take place. They will have an overflow room setup for the main event, not sure where it is yet.

If anyone wants info during the WPT, PM me. I will be happy to give as much info as I can find.

grdred944 · #6 05-26-2006, 01:22 PM

Mandalay tore out a lot of slot machines and setup a tournament area in front of the poker room. I imagine for some events the play will spill over into the main room (I think it's like 16 tables). Most nights they run 3-4 tables of $2/4 NL and a few $4/8 limit tables.

I would expect the all available tables will be filled with various levels of NL. If you are staying at Mandalay and have time constraints you may want to avoid poker there entirely during the WPT and take the tram to Excalibur and walk over to MGM and beyond.

Photoc · #7 05-26-2006, 02:34 PM

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FYP. Nowhere near 16.

52s · #8 05-28-2006, 01:22 AM

10 tables.

I'm dealing the event as well (2 weeks of double duty. Aye!). Noticeably not much coverage of it, if at all on any websites I've checked (Poker Pages and CardPlayer). The $1K on Friday got 339 people, 202 today for the $1.5K. Been a pretty low-key event so far.

Photoc · #9 05-28-2006, 02:27 AM

The question I have for you is... can you hook me up with Sabrina Gadeki when she show's up during the main event? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Xynxz · #10 05-31-2006, 08:11 PM

I'm planning on coming in this weekend and trying the super sat on Saturday to qualify. How tough has the competition been at the sat's? This is my first time to try this out and I have no idea what to expect. Any help/advice/guidance would be appreciated.

For reference, I was in vegas a few weeks ago and played in the sahara tourney on Sunday morning and made the final table (out in 7th AK lost to QQ). That weekend in vegas was my first time playing live (internet for last year and a half).

Would I just be throwing my money away? Again, any advice would be most welcome...Thanks...