Best hot place to play poker in winter? - Page 2

pig4bill · #11 09-13-2006, 04:31 PM

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It is funny that people think that Vegas is 100+ degree temps 365 days a year.

There are two actual seasons here. Summer and Winter. Summer, it is 105+ every day. Winter, it gets into the 30s-40s. or below. It snowed on the Strip a couple years ago, and snowed in Summerlin last year.

For warm weather all year, try SoCal.

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Yeah, well it snowed in Phoenix a few years ago too. Vegas is generally only 5 degrees cooler than Phoenix, and I would trade those 5 degrees for the casinos any day.

SoCal has rain in the winter. Sometimes it whizzes on you for days on end. I'd rather be in Vegas in the winter than SoCal. But then I'd rather be in Vegas in the spring, fall, and summer too.

Benal · #12 09-13-2006, 04:43 PM

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DayTripping · #13 09-13-2006, 04:53 PM

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It is funny that people think that Vegas is 100+ degree temps 365 days a year.

There are two actual seasons here. Summer and Winter. Summer, it is 105+ every day. Winter, it gets into the 30s-40s. or below. It snowed on the Strip a couple years ago, and snowed in Summerlin last year.

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Ok, I think that's a bit misleading. When you say it gets down to the 30s-40s you're talking about overnight temperatures. During the day you're still somewhere in the upper 50s even in December and January, plus it's sunny.

As for snow, that's pretty much a freak occurrence. For all intents and purposes Vegas is a warm weather destination all year round.

StevieG · #14 09-13-2006, 05:15 PM

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For all intents and purposes Vegas is a warm weather destination all year round.

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Not if my purpose is to avoid wearing a winter coat and my intent is to do that without being cold.

Miami has warm weather year round, Las Vegas does not.

LasVegasMichael · #15 09-13-2006, 05:22 PM

Depends on what you consider warm. Really, it is subjective, my statement is not misleading. I talk to tourists every day who think that it is 100+ every day of the year here, when it most certainly is not. Yes, it is sunny most of the time, but when it rains, it pours.

Maybe compared to where you are (east coast), it is not as cold, but having spent the last several Winters right here in Vegas (and before that, Orange County, CA), I can attest that it is indeed quite a bit warmer in So Cal in the Winter months then Vegas, easily.

The average temp (i.e. not overnight, but high accross the board) for the month of Nov is 66 degrees. For December, 57 degrees, and for Jan, 56 degrees. Maybe you consider these temps "warm all year round", but I do not. Most would put on a jacket or a sweater. Once again, not that warm.

I said "it gets into the 30s-40s". The low temps for the same months, respectively, is 42,34,34. It is often 105+ overnight here during the summer. Regardless of time, it does indeed get into the 30-40. Nothing midleading about it.

For SoCal, the average High for Nov, Dec, Jan: 73,68,68. Average Low respectively: 48,43,44

Source for Vegas Temps: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/w...=&s=068327

Source for SoCal Temps: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/w...=&s=519227

It is the desert, it gets real hot and pretty cold at times (though "cold" and "warm" are subjective terms). You want warm weather all year, try SoCal, or get in on the private games in Hawaii.

DayTripping · #16 09-13-2006, 05:28 PM

I guess I'm a bit biased. Look at my location.

LasVegasMichael · #17 09-13-2006, 05:36 PM

[img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] True. You would be hard pressed to find a more opposite comparison then New Hampshire versus Vegas.

Just for fun:

New Hampshire H/L: Nov 44.1/25.1 Dec: 30.8/11.8 Jan: 27.2/4.3 [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

4.3!?!?!? Damn! No wonder I never left the Southwest. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Source: http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/w...672&refer=

MicroBob · #18 09-13-2006, 05:42 PM

when a northerner is looking for a warm-weather vacation destination for the winter I am assuming he is thinking in terms of being able to comfortably lay-out by the pool or the beach.

Just because LV at 55 degrees in Dec. is warmed than New England or Minnesota does not mean that it is much of a 'warm-weather vacation destination' for many couples' purposes.

Aruba has some high-rake poker from what I understand.

Also, cardplayers cruises as well as the other line...casinocruisesunlimited or something like that....offer cruises around the caribbean or mexican riviera with a full poker-room.

this is much better than some other cruise which MIGHT have just one poker-table with an insane rake and dealers who have zero clue.

Quite a few 2+2'ers were on the Party Poker Million cruise last March which is a cardplayer cruise and raved about it.
I know that others have given good reviews of other cardplayer cruises.

It's definitely something to consider. Cardplayer does a really good job.

We went on the last 2 card-player PPM cruises.
My GF knows ZIP about poker but loved everything the cruise had to offer.