Sleeping in the Rio parking lot in my car?

[foureightsuited]

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There must be homeless shelters in Vegas.

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find Ellix Powers (the guy Jim McMannus called with J high)

he should be able to help

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He was playing 3/6 limit at Ballys last night, apparently thats where the homeless people hangout

[Big Poppa Smurf]

Sleeping in a car to save money is a horrible, horrible idea. Vegas will be hot as hell, and there is nothing more unpleasant than waking up at 7am covered in sweat in the backseat of a hot car.

[Meraxes]

The first time I went to Vegas, I drove there alone on a whim. I got off the freeway downtown, and the first casino I came accross was the Golden Nugget, so I parked there, and went in to try to get a room, but it was about midnight, and they didn't have a room for me until 11am. Unfortunately, after driving for about 10 hours I only had about 6 hours of poker in me (fortunately I rocked the 2/4 table for enough to pay for a cheap GN room,) so I tried sleeping for a few hours in my car. It being summer and all, I became so overheated while fading in and out of consciousness, that I felt sick for the rest of my stay. Of course this didn't stop me from playing about 12 hours of poker a day...

[Mr Rick]

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Sleeping in a car to save money is a horrible, horrible idea. Vegas will be hot as hell, and there is nothing more unpleasant than waking up at 7am covered in sweat in the backseat of a hot car.

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Waking up with your skin attached to the leather seats beneath you?

[bigeasy59]

I hate to admit this but I slept in a van in the bellagio parking lot a couple weeks back I left the van running with the ac on because even two weeks ago it was too hot to have it off for more than 30 min or so. I wouldn't recomend it for more than one night. if you do it dollar has vans with stow and go seating so you can put the seats down and lay flat. no one bothered me but I was only there for about 4 hr's

[MicroBob]

When I was at the WSOP in 2005 I stayed at the Gold Coast next door part of the time.
Walking over to the Rio I would pass a couple of homeless dudes sleeping in the grass next to the big parking garage there. Couple cops drove past as I was crossing the street and had to see them...but they didn't seem to care.
One of the guys had no shoes and all this green mold/fungus on his feet. Attractive!!

Anyway, it looked like crashing out there in the grass and shade was working out just fine and dandy for these guys. So I recommend doing that.

[Larry David]

We are going to probably bring a tent and camp in the shade and buy a nice fan.

[TxRedMan]

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I really dont understand how you can enjoy LV w/o having a bed, an AC, and a sink/shower. It seems like staying in your car at night would make the trip suck. I dunno, maybe it depends on your car. I've got a tahoe that I took the rear seats out of, so I could lay down back there, albeit in the fetal position, and leave the car on, but wtf.

You can stay at the Frontier for about $50 a night iirc, so why not?

I don't think you realize how hot it can get in the backseat of a car. Not to mention cramped.

I actually think that having to stay in Vegas like this would make me want to leave and would effect my play.

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We are going to probably bring a tent and camp in the shade and buy a nice fan.

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We? Who did you sucker?

[AlaskaGal]

I think I remember someone posting this same idea year. If someone out there in 2+2 land has the time to look thru the search function, find the guy that asked this same question last year and ask him how it went.....

My guess is that he isn't around anymore because his brain is cooked from sleeping in his car.