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07-12-2007, 04:03 PM
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First trip to Vegas
Hey, I'm an internet newb that's turning 21 next week and I'm making a trip down to Vegas. I'll be staying at the Bellagio Sunday the 22nd through Thursday the 26th.
I'm bringing 6k in cash and am a good limit hold'em player, I have less than 24 hours of live poker experience though. My plan was to play 15 at the Bellagio, and maybe 30 if I'm feeling gambooly. Any other poker rooms/games around that size that I should be checking out? (I won't have a car FWIW.) Any sights I should be sure to hit within the city limits? What chips are the 15 and 30 played with, red (5) and green (25)? 
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07-12-2007, 04:04 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
note to self ; play at bellagio the 22nd-26th
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07-12-2007, 04:27 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
obv
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07-12-2007, 04:42 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds.
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#6
07-12-2007, 08:08 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
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The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds. [/ QUOTE ] Seriously? I really have to deal with chips that small? Will people look at me funny if I bring 20$ or 25$ chips into the game? Otherwise I'd be buying in for like three racks, blah.
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#7
07-12-2007, 08:14 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
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[ QUOTE ] The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds. [/ QUOTE ] Seriously? I really have to deal with chips that small? Will people look at me funny if I bring 20$ or 25$ chips into the game? Otherwise I'd be buying in for like three racks, blah. [/ QUOTE ] Dude, playing with lots of chips = the nutz. Play 8/16 at Wynn, with 2 dollar chips at some point (or really any 4 chip game), so so so much fun.
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#8
07-12-2007, 08:30 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds. [/ QUOTE ] Seriously? I really have to deal with chips that small? Will people look at me funny if I bring 20$ or 25$ chips into the game? Otherwise I'd be buying in for like three racks, blah. [/ QUOTE ] scary tiger, lol! You are going to have a blast playing live. Lots of people are just there to show off how tough they are with their big stacks of chips and long staring contests. My advice: bring more than 6k and play as high as you can. If I knew you better I'd offer to take half of you cuz you will probably have 3+ bb/100 edge even in 60/120. Also, you will probably find that vegas is a bit of a miserable place, particulalry when all ur doing is hanging out around bellagio poker room. Try and get off strip for a while--donk around in a craps game in downtown, go swimming in lake mead, and/or go eat thai food at a local restaurant.
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#9
07-12-2007, 08:47 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds. [/ QUOTE ] Seriously? I really have to deal with chips that small? Will people look at me funny if I bring 20$ or 25$ chips into the game? Otherwise I'd be buying in for like three racks, blah. [/ QUOTE ] scary tiger, lol! You are going to have a blast playing live. Lots of people are just there to show off how tough they are with their big stacks of chips and long staring contests. My advice: bring more than 6k and play as high as you can. If I knew you better I'd offer to take half of you cuz you will probably have 3+ bb/100 edge even in 60/120. Also, you will probably find that vegas is a bit of a miserable place, particulalry when all ur doing is hanging out around bellagio poker room. Try and get off strip for a while--donk around in a craps game in downtown, go swimming in lake mead, and/or go eat thai food at a local restaurant. [/ QUOTE ] I agree with this 100%. 100-200 live is easy compaired to 30-60 online as long as you can deal with 30 hands / hour and aren't a giant tell box. You won't just get strange looks, but even vocal complaint from the nits at the table. Last month at the Bellagio they managed to run out of $10 chips at the poker cage (had to get more from the main cage) so the floor gave me 1 rack of blue and offered to get me gree or black chips for the remainder. Two regular guys at the table made a giant stink about not mixing chip denominations at the table, I of course just got my chips anyways, but it was like they were personly offended by it. $100 bills play though, and its not uncommon for people to use them in addition to the main chip for the game. Seriously though if you want a lot of BB at the table I don't see why you don't want to just buy in for four racks to start a solid base for your inevetable tower of chips. Chips are half the fun of live poker!
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#10
07-12-2007, 08:46 PM
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Re: First trip to Vegas
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] The 15-30 is played with red $5 chips. The 30-60 is played with blue $10 chips. Both are 2-3 blinds. [/ QUOTE ] Seriously? I really have to deal with chips that small? Will people look at me funny if I bring 20$ or 25$ chips into the game? Otherwise I'd be buying in for like three racks, blah. [/ QUOTE ] if you brought those chips to the table most likely the first thing that would happen is that the dealer calls for a chip runner to get you the proper chips and slight hijack, the $10 chips are not blue, their $1 chips are blue 
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