Mirage...going, going...gone?

[budman]

Excellent post it is good to hear your review of the casinos in vegas I tend to agree with your assessment the nicest room I have ever stayed at in Vegas was a Penthouse suite that was absolutely amazing but very expensive I have not seen the 40 - 80 going at the Ventetian call there and ask for Dan he is the best Do you think we should use any more punctuation?

[xducracer]

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I still love the mirage stayed last september and the room was fine best poool in vegas good food wynn is better for food and rooms but for poker and casino games I will take the mirage over the Wynn never liked the poker room at the Wynn just didnt feel right and I play mostly limit which on the weekends at the mirage they always had a 40-80 which was great but I heard it has moved to the venetian does anyone know if this is true?

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It did move for a while....then moved back to the mirage now I think...

Matt

[DayTripping]

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I've read a few times that when it opened, the Mirage was regarded as one of the world's wonders and some put it in the same league as the Bellagio, the Venetian and the Wynn. Imho that defies comprehension.

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If you could see what the rest of Las Vegas looked like in 1989 you'd know why...

[AZnuts]

I was just there on a 3 night comp after Christmas based on Players Club membership. There's nothing like getting around $600 worth of a free room, plus a couple hundred in perks, but I don't really like what the Mirage has been doing lately.

We usually walk across to the Venetian, or over to TI to eat easily, way too many expensive asian restaurants now in the Mirage, and most times nowhere to eat fast.

I do however very much like that the poker room runs nearly constant sit-n-go tourneys at 3 levels ($70, $115, $175) since their regular multi-table tourneys are paifully SLOW. Their 7PM multi with only 49 entrants was still running going on 1AM, and 4th place was paying slightly less than winning an SNG. Much better return on investment (dollars and time) in the SNG's.

[DougL]

I spent 5 days in Vegas two weeks before Christmas, and I very different experiece at the Mirage. I've stayed there about once a year for the last 4 or 5 years, so maybe I'm used to some of the things you didn't like. I have always been treated well at Mirage, just like at Bellagio.

Most of the rennovation is complete and they now have their lists on video displays, just like the new poker rooms. I've never seen bad chips at Mirage, and I've always found their dealers to be above average for Las Vegas.

This last trip, we got their $79 weekday rate for the pre-holiday lull and also got a free upgrade to Spa rooms from the kind girl at the front desk. Even without this deal, I've had great luck with their poker rate. I've stayed for $129 during premium times where the normal room rate was over $200 from any other outlet.

If you like to play $10-$20 or $20-$40, this would be my reccomendation for a room to play. I don't play live tournaments, so I have no idea if theirs is a good deal. My experience with the floormen at Mirage has been very good; they've never steered me to a bad game when making suggestions.

If the cost were the same, I'd probably stay at Bellagio. Since it is closer to half as much to stay at Mirage, I stay there. It certainly isn't the top casino on the strip any more, but your comments make it sound like Harrahs about 7 years ago. During our trip a friend and I walked through all of the poker rooms on the strip and after seeing the lack of medium stakes action in most of the new rooms, we were happy with our choice of hotels.

Doug

[csuf_gambl0o0r]

i was just there for the past weekend during new years. i stay there everytime cause of free rooms.

the poker action there is getting kinda dry. i wanted to grind the 10/20 the entire trip but that game would only go for a couple hours at night and then it would break early. that game wasnt even that good, occasionally u would get some gamblers sitting down but for the most part its filled with locals and regulars.

the 6/12 barely ever runs. and the next limit down is 3/6.

since i couldnt get any action at the mirage poker tables, i ended up getting felted at their blackjack tables, ughh.