Vegas
 

I am going to be in Las Vegas July 18 - 23 and was wandering if anyone had any suggestions on the best places to play, Or if anyone knows of tournaments going on. Maybe someone could show me around. Thanks Jim

I'm a big fan of the Vegas Hilton. The race and sports book is terrific, it's huge and the televisions are all in good, working order. The deli inside the book is outstanding.

If you are a bit of a sizable player the staff at the Hilton will take care of you with current/future comps. They also have a contest called Super Saturdays which is cheap ($30/entry, up to 3 per player). They designate five signals from across America and you have five mythical $100 win/place bets to spread across the tracks (usually NY, CA, KY, IL, and LA). There's no cap but simply a small supply of wagers available to you.

In terms of other race books, Mandalay Bay is very big but a lot of the televisions are broken and it is heavily geared towards sports, in my opinion.

Bellagio is lavish, Wynn seems OK, and that's about it in terms of good ones.

Have a great time, Vegas is the most exciting city in the world.

NT

If you're looking for lower limit poker tourneys, Excalibur, Mandalay Bay and Monte Carlo all run NL hold'em tourneys daily for $50 or under buy-in with no re-buys. Well run and payout a good number of places.

Played Excalibur many times (cashed all but 2). They're held 3X a day and have a $35 buy-in.

Best horse books are Wynn, Hilton, Orleans. Other top sportsbooks are Bellagio, Caesars and Mirage. MGM redid their sportsbook last year (all plasma screens), but there are not many places to sit... however... drinks in that book were free... IF you were playing horses. Most of them charge you regardless of what sports/horses you're playing or even how much you're playing.

Waiting for the end of November... my trip out there this year.

Venetian sports book is not bad....if you are playing they give you coupons for free drinks. Mirage is good too...agree on MGM way to small.

As far as Sportsbooks I really liked the Mirage, did not like Treasure Island at all, and thought the Wynn was pretty damn nice.

i think the book at Ballys is really sport friendly, i like their setup.
check drf.com and see if they have any tourneys out there that week, palace station and gvr have tourneys every once and a while (horse)

-bt-

I like their setup but I can't stand their chairs or little TV's, it drives me f'n nuts.

I usually don't move from there unless it is to sleep/eat/shower/pool

tourney search
 

Here's a link to what you may want to check out..... lists all the tourneys in Vegas for everything for whatever dates you put in. They also give you the buy-in amounts.

http://lasvegasadvisor.com/tourneysearch.cfm?id=2

You can be shown around allright...but it's gonna cost you plenty. Scavs is more in tune with the going rate for those services.

Let me tell you something, I haven't done something more fun then that night where I was just talking to hookers on the strip, it was absolutely awesome. I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

Probably a good thing we weren't there at the same time. I would have had them talked into paying us for our services:cool: :cool:

WHOA!!

I think I have been to Vegas about 7 or 8 times and stayed a few different places. As far as sportsbooks goes:

Hilton: I loved it. Big and took good care of me.
Excaliber: Very underrated...I really liked it alot. Plenty of room with tons of TV's
Mandalay: Overrated IMO
New York, New York: Very small, but useful
Caesars: Fair...nothing spectacular

Come on now.....

He probably picketed against tearing down Circus-Circus;)

You don't like Excaliber? I liked it alot...granted, I could have been heavily under the influence at the time too:)

:mad:

since they moved it and redid it. it's actually not a bad place to watch things at now. 10X the TV's compared to before they moved it. Plus plenty of room.

:)

Wait

1) Circus Circus is gone?

2) how long ago are we talking about the Excaliber? I might have to go check this out if it is recent with all these TV's and such. Although, it isn't beneficial for me because I am taken care of at Ballys so I kinda have to play at a Harrah's establishment