Better for poker...LA or Vegas?

[OSUGreg1983]

Moving to pursue poker as a career, currently living in Portland and can't decide between L.A. or Vegas. Any thoughts?

[DeuceKicker]

Why not try both for a couple weeks each?

Vegas generally plays more tight/passive than LA, which is often either loose/passive or (most often) loose/aggressive. Your winrate should probably be higher in LA, but the variance will be, as well.

Also, it depends on whether you're playing mid/high no/limit or other types of poker

[OSUGreg1983]

I make most of my money playing tournaments and 2/5 NL. Never played tournaments in L.A.

[LocustHorde]

Not trying to hijack's OSUGreg's thread, but at what limits (for NL games) in Vegas and LA does the competition turn fierce and fishy play is rare?

[OSUGreg1983]

It surprises me that Vegas would be more tight/passive than L.A. I assumed most ppl who go to vegas get sloshed and play loose at the poker table. At least that's what I've experienced in my trips there, but then again I haven't played in L.A., just know of its many opportunities for a poker player.

[chillrob]

Remember, people who get sloshed in Vegas an play craps, roulette, whatever they want.

When people get sloshed and want to gamble in LA...they play poker. That's all there is! OK, they can play that Pai Gow crap and maybe the weird bastardized blackjack, but most of them play poker.

[MLSchaff]

For 2/5NL and tourneys I would suggest Vegas. Most LA cardrooms have very low capped buy-ins ($200 for 3/5NL at most places - some have $300 or $500 5/5). Basically this means that you have to gamble it up until you double through, and then you can play some poker - but you will always be facing shorties. At 5/10 and up, LA is fine.

Tourneys are much better in Vegas. Structures for most of the daily/weekly LA tourneys are terrible. Fast blinds, low starting chip stacks. In Vegas you can choose from many reasonably structured tourneys every day.

If you are in Vegas, you can always come to LA for a couple months a year - August for Legends and January for LAPC, when the action is ridiculous good.

[WayAbvPar]

You are probably less likely to get stabbed in the parking lot of a Vegas casino. The LA clubs seem like they are in pretty dicey neighborhoods for the most part.

[Hauntedx]

Commerce is the only LA Casino worth going to. You should stick to Vegas.

[pig4bill]

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Vegas poker rooms are like church compared to the drunks in Casino Arizona.