Best place for tourneys in Vegas?

bretzky55 · #1 09-13-2007, 04:04 PM

Where is the best place to play a tourney in Vegas where the blinds do not increase rapidly making it an all-in fest? I'll be there Fri/Sat.

bav · #2 09-13-2007, 04:21 PM

Caesars noon for $330, Venetian noon for $550, Wynn noon on Friday only for $530, Bellagio 2pm for $1060. Visit www.allvegaspoker.com and click on "tournament" and look there for details. Though I think the starting chip count they show for Wynn is out-of-date...I haven't played it since it supposedly increased but I was told they're now giving 5000 starting instead of 3000.

I'd pick Caesars, myself. Don't make dinner plans if you're going to play any of these; you will be doing nothing but one poker tourney all day if you do well.

A bit more affordable but not as nice a structure would be the Sahara 7pm or 11pm and the Orleans 7pm.

bretzky55 · #3 09-13-2007, 04:26 PM

Thanks, anything for $100 or less that is worth playing?

Armadillo King · #4 09-13-2007, 04:40 PM

Both the Orleans and Sahara tourneys are less than $100.

bav · #5 09-13-2007, 04:43 PM

That'd be Orleans or Sahara. I like Sahara, other folks swear by Orleans. Both are off the beaten strip path a bit, but Sahara technically is on the strip and has a monorail station and nearby bus stop making it easy and convenient for the budget-minded to get to compared to Orleans. Both are playable.

PantsOnFire · #6 09-13-2007, 05:02 PM

Everything you need is here: http://www.pokertournamentformula.co...ournaments.htm

bav · #7 09-13-2007, 06:16 PM

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It's way out of date. Caesars gives you 10,000 starting chips now at noon, for instance, not 4500, and it's not $130 anymore. Wynn bumped their starting chips. So that web page is hugely understating things for those tourneys.

PantsOnFire · #8 09-13-2007, 07:38 PM

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Everything you need is here: http://www.pokertournamentformula.co...ournaments.htm

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It's way out of date. Caesars gives you 10,000 starting chips now at noon, for instance, not 4500, and it's not $130 anymore. Wynn bumped their starting chips. So that web page is hugely understating things for those tourneys.

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You''re right. However, that site is still good for finding the slower tourneys quickly.

wezvidz · #9 09-14-2007, 05:02 AM

Caesers has a 3pm $65 tourny capped at 50 players, usually full 40 minutes before the start. I won it last week but it is pretty good for how cheap it is.

The 7pm/11pm $42+20 rebuy at sahara is a good value.

PorkchopDJG · #10 09-14-2007, 11:59 AM

Hey,
I'll be in Vegas in a few weeks staying at LV Hilton so Sahara will be close and I'm sure I will play a few of these tourneys.
Can you give me a rough estimate of how many players they get for each of these Sahara tourneys per day and how does it fluctuate between weekdays and weekends?.
11AM?
7PM?
11PM?

Also are the noon tourneys at Caesars and Venetian now mostly more expensive (300+) deep stack type tourneys and the evening ones more regular and cheaper.

Thanks